A
brief rant: this has been irritating me for days so I am going to
write about it. Last week I was passed by a car that had at least
two bumper stickers. One had something negative about entitlements –
on the driver's side so I could not read it. On the passenger side
was one that said: I don't owe you cr*p!
Yes,
I get the anger and the frustration. I do not agree but I get it. I
do not get the absurdity of the comment.
Perhaps
this person receives none of the government handouts we call tax
breaks or always pays the extra amount at the gas pump he (and it was
a he) that is not charged because we subsidize oil companies or will
never collect social security or medicare. But … let us
pretend/assume that given the age of the person he attends a church.
Given the bumper stickers it is unlikely he attends a synagogue or a
mosque. If he does then he “knows” or “confesses” that he
owes others at least the following: love, compassion, hospitality.
Those are not Christian “options.” We owe them as part of the
faith. I hope, for the sake of this person's integrity, he is a
thoroughgoing libertarian objectivist and also despises Christianity.
Here
is a parallel critique in a kinder format.
