If you’ve got more of a problem with the citizenry of this nation pooling their resources together to buy bread than you do with them buying bombs, your priorities are in need of adjustment.
– Daniel Skillman (in a post on Facebook)
The quote addresses a surprising and deeply disturbing phenomenon among large numbers of people in the United States who self-identify as Christians, namely the belief that taxation to address poverty is wrong, but taxation to support war is fine.