The fact is, the health care bill is preeminently geared toward one objective—providing healing for the marginalized and the poor, people for whom our current system often denies the possibility of healing altogether. The question Jesus asked of those who thought that healing on the Sabbath was an affront to God is the very question we should now pose for Beck and Congressman King: “I ask you, is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?” That was Jesus’ way of affirming what Beck wants to deny—that the biblical God is always the God of justice for the poor. We can only conclude that whatever Beck’s “Christian America” may be, it is hardly very Christian.Glenn Beck’s Christian America is Hardly Christian (via azspot)
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YES. Let's all debate about how "Christian" the HCR bill is. Yes, because framing HCR in terms of a 2000 year-old invisible, intangible, super-powered, demi-god is really going to help balance things out.
Nah--instead, let's argue how just the bill is. We don't need Jesus to teach about fairness anymore, do we? We're adults--we can handle the concept outside of a superheroic, "magical" context--so, let's see, the HCR bill requires everyone, even the poor, to pay for health care insurance.
How does this help the poor? You remember the poor, the folks that can't find work or don't have the education to get work? You remember work, it's that thing that pays you some money but pulls some out to pay for taxes AND HEALTH INSURANCE? HEEEEEY, why not just get poor people JOBS?!?!
SIGH....
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