[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Hardly the voice of compassion though is it?

To some people there would never be a point they would assist, because they are never rich enough, never have enough spare housing etc etc etc.

When people are in dire need of assistance, as human beings, we offer assistance. Is that not the CHRISTIAN thing to do? We don't simply walk by someone ill in the street and give them a kick as we go. We call for assistance.

There is nothing i detest more than double standards. We are either a Christian country that will always come to the aid of those who TRULY need it or we are not. This is not related to our own wealth standards as those we are assisting are in a much much worse position than ourselves.

According to most people on this forum - The UK is NOT a MAJORITY Christian country any more as a look back at various threads will attest.

As for 'Double Standards' that is not applicable to my post.

No one is advocating NOT helping ANY human beings who are in need of help, only that we have to be REALISTIC and NOT GO OUT SCOURING THE SEVEN SEAS AT OUR EXPENSE to LOOK for any unfortunates who might need help - especially when THEY SHOULD NOT BE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

90% of the world's population is "in a worse position than ourselves" - Do we extend aid to them all - actual physical or financial?

Why aren't we going into Africa and certain other parts of the world and searching out ALL the millions of starving, ill, and dying little children so that we can save them? We KNOW that they are there - that they EXIST.

Why aren't we AIRLIFTING them and their families into the UK and making room for them here?

What is the difference? WHO decides who to save and who not to?

This is THE TRUE DOUBLE STANDARDS in WESTERN SOCIETY.

Britain is no longer an Empire and we are a 'Kingdom' not so 'United', and one fraught with increasing and overwhelming problems of our own - some critical - and we just have neither the MONEY nor RESOURCES to solve our own problems let alone the world's.

Charity and Mercy are noble qualities and of course aid should be given where human disasters strike, but the harsh reality is that nature is often cruel and mankind even crueller, and we cannot always afford to do what we would like to do.

The blind spot with certain people in this country is that it is one thing to think and care and provide for other people - BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF YOUR OWN.

A lot of our own citizens are using foodbanks, sleeping rough, suffering through a lack of medical resources and hospital beds. A great number of our children are struggling by on a pittance of benefits - barely existing - at the very time in their lives when they should be buying new clothes, going out at weekends, taking driving lessons, having holidays etc - because there are no jobs for them. Many old people who have worked hard all their lives and contributed to this country are dying of malnutrition and hypothermia.

A policy of seeing to others whilst neglecting your own is one surefire way to create in our own citizens the very racism which the 'P.C. bleeding hearts responsible for such a policy are 'bending over backwards' to be seen to avoid.

I'm sorry if this post renders me even more unpopular than I have already become, but it is the TRUTH as I know it.