Jesus healed the sick without asking if they had pre-existing conditions.

[HopeOverFear]

JESUS fed the hungry
JESUS gave comfort to the oppressed.

Why are the Republicans chanting that health care for all is evil?

Matthew 25:44-45:

They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

The LORD will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for ME.

[wryter2000]

1. They aren't in it for Jesus' teachings

Amazing how they can ignore what Jesus actually said, huh?

[54anickel]

2. Drove by a homemade sign today that said,"Kill the bill, not the Grandpa". Some really do think

this is a way to sneak euthanasia in :eyes:...along with state sponsored, maybe even mandated abortion! It's a slippery slope ya know. :crazy:

[CBHagman]

3. Jim Wallis's blog on health care.

As one might expect, Jim Wallis (of Sojourners) has weighed in, and of course today Obama had his conference call with various people of faith.

One warning on the Wallis piece: Read the comments when you aren't feelign too down in the mouth, or angry. In between the occasional well-reasoned and/or compassionate response are some of the most spectacularly mean-spirited things I've read on the Post site. Oh, there are plenty of incoherent rants in the comments sections for ordinary articles, but the negative comments on this one especially disheartened me because it was a reminder of how people dress up savagely cruel attitudes in cocktail party-ready talk.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/jim_wallis/2009/08/healing_americas_sick_soul.html

In America, 46 million are uninsured, many more are underinsured. Many of them are working families who live in fear of getting sick or injured. Some delay seeking medical attention at the risk of their own health or using emergency room services instead of primary care physicians. An estimated 18,000 people a year die unnecessarily from lacking basic health insurance, many from low income families. These realities do not reflect a valuation of our neighbor as created in the image of God and that is why this is not just a political issue, it is a moral issue and solutions for our health care system are long overdue.

What does that mean? It means that the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues right beneath the policy debate. This does not mean that any religious leader has a policy prescription from God ready for mark up by committee. St Luke might have been a doctor but he still didn't comment on the benefits of computerizing medical records. But the faith community will be raising a "moral drum beat" in the center of this debate that focuses on those who have been left out of good health care in America, and keeps our political leaders focused on real reform.

[Kajsa]

4. They are fed the fear mongering crap from

Faux News, take it as truth and react to it.
They do NOT think for themselves nor bother to check
was is in the bill and what isn't.

Without a doubt, this is the biggest public display
of ignorance and hate I have seen in our country
since the pro-segregation demonstrations in the
early 60's.

It's disgusting and sad.

:(

Jesus is weeping.

[JerseygirlCT]

5. Makes you just want to repeat that passage over and over again

to them, doesn't it?