Having demythologized and deconstructed our faith, liberals have rightly discarded conservatism’s cruel damnation while keeping our class status, letting our hearts bleed just enough in public so as to not jeopardize having ‘received our reward in full’ (Matthew 6).

This one, lone verse from a short New Testament epistle whose authorship is uncertain has had outsized impact on Christian perspectives on hunger: that we should be more worried about getting cheated than we are about neighbors going without food.