CHURCH ENCOURAGES HAND OUT CULTURE WHILE THE DESIGNER CLAD ATTEND TRUSSELL FOODBANKS

The church encourages dependencies. A state flourishes when people acquire the skills of independence. Carey opines about the dilemmas that many UK families face. He fails to identify the complicity of the church with hand out culture. 

The church breeds congregations of automatons to join their queues to receive the Mass. They like to foster the image of church as provider and people as recipients. The church has jumped quickly onto the bandwagon of distributing free food to the 'poor'. Documentaries have filmed some of those 'in need' attending the food banks, pushing their designer buggies in designer clothing and looking far from malnourished. However, the process boosts the image of the church and bolsters the pretence that it is on the side of the poor.

This is a masquerade, as the church is tightfisted with its money and the food it gives out is donated by others. Carey worries about rising food prices and the inability to cope with modern conditions. I lived in Calcutta with the poor for a year. No one here knows true poverty. Compared to earlier generations, we live in clover.

People can live on a pittance if they use budget ranges of food, use no heating, shop from charity stores and live frugally. It's just the church and society have created a benefit culture in which people expect, have no shame in taking, are disinclined to forgo and want to do sod all and yet live like rulers, smoking, drinking and watching Sky.

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