Prevailing Winds "For the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom . . ." 2 Cor. 3:17, TNIV

September 15, 2009

Insight From Great Britain

Filed under: Uncategorized — keelyem @ 4:22 pm

“All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack
of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than
the rich, powerful, and arrogant trying to keep it that way”

– Simon Hoggart, political sketch artist for the United Kingdom’s “Guardian” news magazine, September 2009

Hoggart correctly diagnoses not only the dire need for healthcare reform in the United States, but also the “we ain’t broke, so don’t fix it” mentality shown by for-profit insurance company executives and the GOP Congress in bed with them. You have to wonder why other nations — literally, every other industrialized country in the world — understand the moral and economic imperative of uniform access to quality healthcare while the United States holds on for dear life to a broken, corrupt, immoral and economically unsustainable system that kills people.

The GOP, and, oddly enough, the Christian conservatives in it who continue to wield influence they neither deserve nor understand, are hell-bent on tightening their death grip on a system that would be immoral even if it worked. But it doesn’t work, it does kill people, it’s crippling our economy, and appeals by the Religious Right for a free market-only system illustrate more tragically than I can the disconnect between Christ and those of his followers who are consumed with a hermeneutic that rewards being Right over being righteous.

And stay tuned for my response to a comment on my “Palin-drones” post that rips the disconnect even more violently . . .

1 Comment »

  1. My ripping of the disconnect even more violently can be summarized as “How long halt ye between two opinions? if Yahweh be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.”

    The GOP and the Christian conservatives would answer me not a word, although I expect that you will have a few words for me.

    The Christian Right I have summarized above; they are wedded to the Republicans. The Christian Left is just as wedded to the Democrats. The whole thing is sickening. I would call for a pox on both their houses, but they already are the pox on their houses.

    I do not look for a solution in the status quo that the Christian Right is fighting to preserve, and I know that what the Left has in store for us is even worse. There is a solution, but only if we as a nation repent and turn back to God. So far neither the Christian Left nor the Christian Right have any inclination to do so. It’s all the same salvation-through-politics that we have seen up until now. Fine. Let everyone continue to stew in their own juices. People are dying, but it does not have to be this way. Yahweh is always waiting for us to express our willingness to start doing things His way.

    Comment by Christopher Witmer — September 15, 2009 @ 9:18 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment

Powered by WordPress