As Editor of Musings from Maytown, this writer was interviewed today by Cheryl Ringette Ciamarra for Focus on Life Radio, a weekly broadcast each Sunday afternoon at 2:30 PM on WXJC 850 AM. Ms. Ciamarra and I discussed the current Health Care Package proposed by the Obama Administration.
Readers of Musings from Maytown would do well to check out the work of Focus on Life ministries. This effort is a public policy group, focusing on pro-life activities. The interviewees of this broadcast sound like an all-star list of pro-life activists.
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It is time for "Protestant Christians" to "Wake Up" and fight Obama Care with all our might. It is right out of Hitler's "Death to the ELDERLY & INFANTS".
We have become the minority in our own country with "No Voice" on the "Supreme Court".
With the upcoming confirmation of Ms. Sotamayor, the court will consist of 6 Catholics, 2 Jews, and only one Protestant(A liberal one at that).
Our Protestant ancestors came to this country with the "Principles of the Protestant Reformation" as their guide. If it were not for Martin Luther and John Calvin, there would not have been these United States of America. Only one Cathoilc(Charles Carroll of Maryland) signed the Declaration of Independence. The Catholic church's power is top-down with the Pope in control here on earth. Protestants believe that Jesus Christ is the "only" head of the church and that we should be "FREE" to worship him as a free and independent nation of believers.
It is time for another revolution and take our country back from those, who try to tell us how to live our lives.
THERE IS NO JUSTICE "Without Representation" There are almost 160,000,000 protestant Christians in America today, who claim the name of "Christ" as their "Saviour". We are being persecuted by an ANTI-CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT. John Paul Stevens is the only Protestant on the Court representing over half the countries population. As it stands now Protestant Americans are not being represented in our beliefs.
One out of nine is not what I would call representation. Catholics make up 24% of the population, Jews only 1% and Protestants 52%.
My Question to Barack Obama and all the "Socialists in our Government, where is the "Diversity"?
We need to take our country back and let "Freedom Ring" throughout this great land once again.
Soli Deo Gloria!!!
It's time to take back what's ours, Protestants! Let us band together under the flag of our fathers. Of course, I mean the Stars and Bars! Let us secede and create a truly Christian nation under God. The day of reckoning is upon us, let us join together to defeat Obama and his band of anti-Christian Catholics!
I doubt Gary Fenton, Jay Wolfe, Rick Lance, Andy Westmoreland, David Potts and most of the staff of the WMU would be comfortable with the language of the first two responses to your post here.
Mike Shaw, James Evans, Bishop Willimon, the President of Bham Southern and Stephen Black may be open to a Town Hall panel discussion on this one; but then again I don't speak for them.
In some ways this may be a similar political moment to LBJ's Senate race in 48 against Coke Stephenson in TExas, whose Texas Regulars begat Judge Paul Pressler who begat the takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Look up the June 4, 1990, I think it was review of Robert Caro's Means of Ascent in the New Republic for the particulars.
I saw all this in kindness and candor as we search for truth here on Dr. Killian's blog; and for that I am grateful.
If a fire breaks out in a lab of stem cell embryos and neonates, do you grab the embryos or the live babies?
Do you care for the sick and dying or tank health care reform just for the sake of abortion dogma.
What would Jesus do?
What would Rick Lance and Bishop Willimon and Gary Fenton and and the WMU and James Merritt's son; what would they do???
Palmer, Alaska Blog:
From Howard Bess there
Those of us who are followers of Jesus have a hard time denying the interest Jesus had in the physical health of people.
Just now the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are debating universal health care for all Americans.
The uneven distribution of health care in the United States is scandalous. Of the 39 industrialized countries of the world, the United States is the only one that does not provide universal health care for its citizens.
There is good reason for the U.S. House and Senate to address the need for universal health care for our citizenry. Many of us believe health care for all is a demand of the "general welfare" provision of the U.S. Constitution.
As a Christian, I see the "general welfare" provision and the healing Jesus as working partners.
On July 12, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on NBC's "Meet the Press," commented that "the United States has the finest health care in the world." He told a half-truth. The statement would have been true only if he had added "for those who can afford it."
A close friend commented recently: "In the United States we do not have a health care system. We have a health care industry." It is the American health care industry that stands between health care and millions of Americans.
The American health care industry is dominated by insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. These are American institutions that have neither soul nor conscience. They have only a bottom line.
My wife and I receive excellent health care. We are retired and so have the benefit of Medicare coverage. In addition because of my past employment, we have access to affordable supplementary health care insurance. We choose our physicians.
The overhead for the U.S. government to run Medicare is 3 percent. Major insurance companies that provide health care insurance average 30 percent overhead.
American pharmaceutical companies regularly sell medicines outside of the United States for lower prices than they charge inside the United States.
Yet both industries are spending billions of dollars warning Americans about government involvement in medical care.
As a follower of Jesus from Nazareth, I ask all who have taken the name Christian to remember that
Jesus was committed to giving people healthy bodies;
Jesus had a priority commitment to the poorest of the poor;
his warnings to the wealthy and the selfish were relentless.
This is called Bible 101.
Would the "Founding Fathers" view our present Supreme Court as being reflective of the population of the U.S? My main concern as theirs would be, can the Catholic members, who belong to an authoritarian top-down church government represent the views of the majority of Americans, who believe in dispersed power among the churches and that "Christ" is the only head of the "Church"?
It seems to me that the Obama Health-Care plan is an authoritarian government take-over of people's lives. Protestants are far more likely to oppose it than Catholics. As for as the Supreme Court goes, where is the "Justice for Protestants", in this land which was founded on the principles of "Freedom & Liberty" for all. Most Protestants I know "Do Not Want To Be Told What To Do", especially by a "Socialistic Top-Down Government". Headed by Barack Hussein Obama. Protestants and Catholics(who believe in limited government) alike must stand their ground if "Freedom is to Prevail" in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave".
It's interesting that Protestants criticize Catholics for adhering to a leader, even if it is Biblically prescribed. Or was that omitted from the King James' Bible, as well?
All the while knowing that the only Christian Church founded by Christ is the Catholic, or Universal, Church. Call it the world's worst inferiority complex.
How did we get started off on this, again? Oh that's right the bigotry and prejudice that has become so commonplace in the modern Protestant denominations, with honorable exception, and is somehow accepted and encouraged by its leaders.
I think we could all take a page out of His Holiness' book, and the book of our President, and be willing to sit down and engage in fruitful dialogue with those of whom we disagree.
Of course, that wouldn't be nearly as fun as mindlessly and anonymously bashing fellow Christians without any real meat to back it up.
I thought we were talking about government and whether or not the majority of United States citizens want to be told by Washington, what their health care will consist of.
Top-Down and be told what and when to do. OR
Ground-up Freedom of the People to get their own health-care as they see fit.
You want healthcare as the people see fit? Look at Britain or France, where the governments are terrified of their citizens instead of the US where the citizens are terrified of government. But let's just languish in mediocrity. I don't see anything wrong with an infant mortality rate in the south comparable to that of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Those babies should have come from harder working parents who could afford decent healthcare. Yeah, right. As Christians, we deplore the thought of an unborn baby being murdered while in its mother's womb (and I do), but once it's out it's on its own. And we wonder why some people think we're crazy.
In Sunday's Bham News:
The opposition to health-care reform comes primarily from the physicians, patients and the slice of society who view the world from the first frame of reference. They firmly believe they are the solid center of normal life and should be considered the reference point for everyone else. The kind person would say they simply do not see those in alternative frames of reference and their needs. The cynic would say they do not care. Either way, many of them are working to prevent measures that would allow others to enjoy the benefits of modern medicine.
From my point of reference, there is a gross discrepancy in medical care. Some is very good, some is acceptable but not ideal, and some is inadequate. Therefore, I would look forward to a national health-care plan that would equalize care to all.
As a physician, I believe that justice requires adequate medical care for all members of our country who need it. As a minister of the Gospel, I believe the exhortations of the Hebrew prophets and the teachings of Jesus require those of us with means to help care for those who are less fortunate.
Wilton H. Bunch, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Samford University.
I am confused by all the health care debate.
What would Jesus say?
The Fox news people say one thing.
Then Howard Bess quotes Bible 101 and I can't disagree with that.
What is a person to conclude?
Here is what Joe Godfrey should be helping Alabama understand:
http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=14541
Finally someone is telling the truth. And it is Sarah Palin.
See http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g426GkD-vTsEj6z5wZHcBngGbjvgD99UBEF80
John, you are missing the big picture on Sarah. She is running, and she is America's hope.
haha this comment page has come full circle on right wing bull****. I wish Kieth Olberman was aware of this blog.
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