The Rude Pundit: Why Doesn't Jesus Want Us to Have a Health Care Plan?

[meegbear]

The Rude Pundit continues to be a member of the Super-Duper Prayer Team of the Family Research Council (motto: "The voices in our heads tell us that queers are icky") under a nom de rude. Every week, he receives orders on what he should spread his prayer seed on, and this week is especially meaty. Amidst all the prayers about us needing to afear the gays and their unholy desire to get married just like real people, there's this: "Last week, Senate Democrats began circulating the first draft of Sen. Kennedy's proposal for a sweeping government health care system. The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee is scheduled to hold public 'markup' sessions to finalize details on the bill in mid June. Of particular concern are the provisions for 'reproductive health services,' which is code language for federally funded abortion. The Senate Finance Committee will have its say, then the full Senate."

This is followed by how we need to pray: "May those who pray mount a prevailing effort to prevent this socialistic plan to take permanent control of over 17% of the American economy. May the American people and their representatives wield their power to reject this effort, as they did in 1993-94." Now that's a goddamned precise prayer. It makes a soul wonder what percentage of the American economy is the upper limit for we prayer warriors. And watch for abortion payments to become the screeching right's last stand on health care until they demand that all fertile women must carry frozen embryos before Orrin Hatch agrees to let the government pay for a few people's antibiotics.

This is followed by a list of bible verses that give us guidance on our prayers, a way to put more sticky notes in our home gospels. Like, on stopping health care reform, we should read Hosea 6:1-3, which says, "Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up/ After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight/ Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." Or, in other words, the FRC seems to be saying that we shouldn't give a shit about doctors because an invisible sky wizard will heal us if we're willing to let his voice be in our heads. Why is it always three days with this bastard?

One might think that Jesus would want doctors for the poor because he's only one dude with the superpower of healing. And that shit's gotta wear a guy out.

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[redqueen]

1. How can people not see through this crap?

Seriously... what has healtchare's share of the economy got to do with religion?

Useful idiots, indeed.

[kenny blankenship]

2. Life is SUPPOSED to be misery. That way Jesus can save you.

If life was all sunshine and happiness you would never hope for salvation in the afterlife: No man with a good car needs to be justified!

If the masses of ordinary people stopped being afraid that the sea of misery around them was about to close over their heads at any moment and drag them down into the pit of pestilence and wretchedness with the gutter as their grave, and they stopped calling upon the Lord for redemption, then God would vanish in a puff of smoke.

Damn right the Preacherman hates the Doctor! And if there's anybody the Preacherman could hate worse it would be a political leader who promised that every poor man would be able to see the Doctor whenever sickness threatened. You take away the fear of Death and the misery of Life from them and you can't sell the masses the After-Life insurance policy anymore.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Well, that doesn't make sense - if life is supposed to be misery, and

life under socialism is supposed to be miserable, we should be praying FOR socialism, every chance we get, right?

[Matariki]

7. You quoted Hazel Motes!

:rofl:

[dugaresa]

3. "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

a quote from Napoleon.

True then, true today.

Religion also appears to want to keep you sick and bankrupt.

[MisterP]

4. a good way to make a seminary student have a stroke is to show them how fundie Christians come to

their conclusions: it's like mentioning to a historian that A World Lit Only By Fire or The DaVinci Code are still exploding in popularity
I mean, citing Hosea against government funding of healthcare?

[juno jones]

6. It's not just that they try to make Hosea relevant to the modern world

but the fact that they have no clue what that verse in Hosea is really referring to.

You're right tho, anyone who has delved into religious history would tear their hair out in clumps when confronted by idiots such as these.