When it comes to religious hypocrites, I have observed most Republicans are giving the Democrats a run for their money.
In America, most churches are more concerned with their church business model than they are with going into “the fields that are ripe for the harvest”. As for discipleship, few have any inclination. Most of the resources are spent either making the ones already on the rolls feel comfortable enough to keep paying the bills or figuring out how to poach ready-made members from other churches.
That’s a rather broad, fact-free claim. However inasmuch as Republicans are plagued at all, it’s because of falling into the same folly of state as Christian mother of the people. It isn’t, it can’t be, Jesus never promised it, Jesus never commanded it.
I would bet that if churches saw charity as the arms and legs of evangelization (giving to people says the love of Christ better than preaching at them) we’d see both evangelization and charity burgeoning.
I happened a few years ago to see a copy of a letter that Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to church pastors imploring them to support his Social Security scheme. The demons directing this knew what they were doing. For a scanty, skimpy umbrella of Caesar, now unhooked entirely from Christ, the churches were able to say “I gave in my paycheck.”
I mean specifics-free claim.