While browsing amongst the man blogs in the tubez, I came across a wonderful and downright disgusting story all at the same time. A man more or less rescues someone from a mugging, only to be mugged a second time when he attempts to take the man for treatment.
Whatever happened to the world where we used to consider the fellow man, we used to be out there to help each other when times were tough. When did it all change to a what have you done for me lately, or how will that line my pockets with cash? That nurse should be attack by two razorbacks hoped up on crack cocaine. The man was just mugged, he's bleeding everywhere and you're more worried about whether this man can pay for his treatment before you will actually treat him?
The last time I checked health-care was supposed to be about taking care of people and not a business in which you MUST get paid. That right there is the problem, health-care has now become a for-profit business where bottom lines and stock holders matter more then a man recovering from a seizure and mugging.
Lord only knows what would have happened to the man if this good Samaritan hadn't come along and done something. The saddest thing of all is it appears that he is the only one who was willing and actually did something. The other people allowed this to happen, they let the men just walk off into the night. It's stories like this that make me absolutely sick in the world, and with Republicans now that I think about it.
Republicans love to preach family values, morals, and Christian beliefs and yet they are the party that started this entire health-care as a business nonsense get started in the first place. For all you "Christian Republicans" take a long look in the mirror and ask yourselves, would Jesus cut paying for free health clinics? Would Jesus cut funds for homeless shelters? I don't even need to ask you if Jesus would pipebomb and abortion clinic, most of you don't and have never actually listened to the message of Jesus. Jesus taught that you must bring up your fellow man, you help the helpless not bitch and moan because he's a drain on your precious taxes.
It disgusts me to know that I live in a world where something like this is happening. For every "child" who isn't "killed" because you don't agree with the research that another person will come down and eventually die from Parkinsons. That you would rather feel "safe" and bomb those "Islamic heathens" then take care of the hundred of thousands of men, women, children and veterans who are homeless. The millions who cannot afford health-care, even though they work three jobs just to feed their children. If you don't see it with your own eyes, it's not a problem...except illegal immigration, can't have THOSE people taking jobs...you know the ones you'd never work.
You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? -Matthew 5:43-47
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This reminds me of the "gospel of wealth" trend that's kicking up around the country. Evangelicals have started justifying the wealthy growing wealthier by saying that God is just rewarding them for their righteousness. Makes me sick. Jesus didn't preach to the rich. He preached to the poor, to prostitutes, to tax collectors (the ultimate corrupt government bureaucrats in Biblical times) and the down-trodden. When Jesus was asked why, he simply said "because they need it," if I have my gospels straight.
And yet, that message is lost. We won't help the downtrodden, but we'll applaud the rich and the wealthy. We won't give a hand up, but we will condemn those who need it. We won't be peaceful with those we disagree with, we bomb them, as you said.
I don't know how someone can call themselves Christian and do these things, but people do.
Hell man, Jesus was the first Socialist...
The term "Christian Republican" just doesn't make any sense if you boil it down to faith over idealogy.
Did anyone else get a laugh during last nights SOTU?
Dr Jack- Health care has been a corporation for many many decades and the ONLY reason we have not adopted a universal health care system yet. Private health care is a joke, just look at what happened at Walter Reed.
Side note- Christians are truly fucked in the head. I watched an episode of Intervention and Father Assnut said her daughter was going to hell for being a lesbian. Turned out Father Assnut cheated on his wife years back......So who is the sinner and who is the saint?
Christians are not fucked in the head. Some are. Not the group.
Yes, but its the select few that get the media attention and give the perception your ALL fucked up. You can thank the "moral leaders" for that one
Can't just say "Christians" though SayHey, just too general a term given how many sects there are.
Fundamentalist Christians, yes.
Fair enough, however, Fundamentalist Christians are found in every sect of Christianity as well
Fundamentalism cannot be found in every sect. Fundamentalism is a very distinct set of Protestant beliefs geared towards the lack of need for good works during life: a faith alone, scripture alone approach.
Catholics, for example, do not believe this. Nor do, say, Episcopalians or Eastern Orthodox Christians.
Nice Wikipedia response.....
The definition Im most familiar with--- A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism.
Right, so even by your definition, not all sects could possibly have fundamentalists as the sect itself may be adhering to a principle not found in the original doctrine.
Born-again fundamentalists tend to fit this category for Christianity, as to Wahhabists to Islam, as well as perhaps Haredi Orthodox Jews.
Its all based on how strongly you believe your own code or central tenets to be infallible.
Catholicism is constantly changing its rules, so by this definition it would not be classified as Fundamentalist.
There is a difference and both sides are right here.
There very well may be "fundys" in catholicism, but the religion itself is not. I think what SHK is trying to say is that you will find these people in every sect, even if the sect itself is not viewed as Fundamentalist.
Wikipedia without even looking at it. I win.
I don't see where we disagree, SayHey.
Like the idea of getting back to the "fundamentals" of Catholicism...gotcha.
That's a valid point. I suppose I had always thought that the evangelical protestant fundamentalists were "the" fundamentalists.
I must say that I object to their use of the term "fundamentalist." I find nothing fundamental about their approach to it. If you ask me, in the scheme of it all, "fundamentalism" is a rather new invention.
DC&H- I think its our interpretation; they seem conflicting when in fact they are not.
Agreed- Fundamentalism in the past seemed like a "back to basics" buzz word. Nowadays, it seems to by synonymous with terrorism and intolerance
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