A health care 'Judas' recounts his conversion (former Cigna exec, via CNN)

[ljm2002]

18. Nice article...

...this is the part that got my hackles up:

When he takes this message to churches, some shut their doors, he says. They don’t want to hear him. Pastors know the debate over health care divides their congregations.

“A lot of pastors are just too afraid to get involved in this and step up and say this is a moral issue,” he says. “They’re afraid of offending their parishioners.”

(emphasis mine)

In other words, these pastors are abrogating their responsibility to be moral leaders, teaching the morality of Jesus Christ, who fed the poor, healed the sick, and made it very clear what our responsibilities are to each other.

Churches, like pretty much everything else in our increasingly weird society, are now primarily businesses, whose purpose is to please their customers -- certainly not to lecture them, God forbid! (irony alert)