To me, there is a general tone from social conservatives that your life is not your own. If you take control of your life, and work against your obstacles, you are snubbing god by taking him out of the equation. It seems that you are not only expected to take what's handed to you, but you are expected to stay where you are and not aspire to more, with the exception of aspiring to more fervently love god. Perhaps I'm seeing this wrong, and if I am, I'm sorry.