Dr. Carson, I'm going to try not to waste time by mincing words, but I'll go ahead and let it be known that I get headaches when you speak. Every time I see some headline about something you've said, I immediately begin to get a migraine. I know what I've just said is probably rude and uncalled for and I apologize for that, but I am starting to lose my patience with your blatant and apathetic disregard for other people's struggles in life.

In the past, you've said that women who terminate their pregnancies are like slave owners who think they can just do as they please without any disregard for others, as if getting an abortion is such an easy and self-serving decision. Yes, a teenage girl who got raped is so selfish for terminating a pregnancy because she knows that she doesn't have the mental propensity or financial stability to care for a child and love that child like a mother is supposed to. And an expectant mother is the epitome of selfishness because she chose to end a pregnancy that would produce a child that won't live longer than a few hours, a pregnancy that will most likely end with the mother dying during labor anyway, leaving her family without a mother.

You've also compared the ACA to slavery. As a man of faith, I'm honestly ashamed to hear another Christian be so hostile to something that aims to care for the sick in the face of powerful people who would rather line their pockets than care for their fellow human being. Tell me, in this situation, do you think you're acting like the Christ, healing the sick and the blind, or the Pharisees, angry that someone dared heal someone on the Sabbath instead of ignoring their plight and attributing it to their own sinfulness?

I'm not even going to get into what you've said about queer people in the past, because if I do that then I'm likely to get pissed off. So instead, I'll talk about your most recent pearl of wisdom: poverty is a state of mind. Just say what you really mean. You mean to say that poor people are poor because they're lazy and not intelligent enough to get out of their own fiscal problems. Nevermind that you openly advocate for policies that make things like healthcare, food and water, and even shelter more expensive and difficult to access for these people you say just have a poor state of mind. You say that if you take everything from someone who already has everything that they can get it all back in no time, but give everything to a poor person, they're likely to lose all of it. So giving a child food, water, shelter, and an education isn't worth it? You honestly think that giving people what they need is giving them too much? You call yourself a Christian, and you believe that giving the poor and needy what they need is wasteful and pointless? I would reconsider your beliefs about poverty and how you are expected to react to poverty, not only as a Christian, but as a human being who has been where these people have been.

Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.