Wrong! Wrong on all counts. American’s pay about double for their medicine, and yet have a LOWER life expectancy than us ‘Socialist’ Australians. Please explain?

http://nothing-new-under-the-sun.blogspot.com/2010/01/healthcare-and-market.html

(Personally I think it is because your middleman insurance agencies skim too much cream off the top, whereas our governments Just Do it and run the medicine themselves).

It seems like he has a Socialist solution for almost every problem. Printing money and increasing the number of Government jobs hasn’t helped the economy at all.

What’s even worse is that these people that he surrounds himself with are more interested in gaining power than they are at actually doing real social works for the community.

The message of the cross is the real message. We should be preaching that Jesus still saves. People trying to live preaching the Prosperity Gospel. Jesus is coming back soon. We must be ready.

Absolutely, and I’m not into the prosperity gospel either. That’s quite big where I live in Sydney, Australia. We have this mega-church called “Hillsong” who are all about prosperity and basically seem to see Christianity as about a set of ‘rights’ Christians have to health, wealth and prosperity. As if heaven were now here on earth, and there was no suffering to be endured!

But let’s not forget that Christians are called to both pure doctrine and love of God and faith in Jesus AND to compassionate action. Ultimately we are about sharing God’s good news to this world, but we are also called to be like Jesus and care for the poor and needy. There is no way to choose one over the over without compromising what we are really all about! We can’t be Christians without gathering around God’s word regularly and responding to the gospel with faith and love. We can’t respond to the gospel obediently without having some measure of concern for the poor and weak in society.

Historically, the vast majority of good welfare safety nets actually came from Christian political agitation!

As James 1 says:

“27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”

Now that doesn’t mean we suddenly have to adopt some form of ‘Christian communism’ and everyone has to have equal pay. While I might lean slightly more to the left, I’m not blind to the problems with socialism! But I think there is a vast degree of freedom on the political scale for Christian’s to adopt. As my Christian brother, I will fight for the right for Negative99 to be as right-wing as he wants. He has that freedom. I will not tell him that the bible DEMANDS he adopt my political views. But I will also fight for my own right to state why my conscience places a burden on me to vote a certain way at a certain time, and where I might think Negative99 could have more charitable political views.

See the difference?

Why is it that many Christians who decry Christian political involvement (read Tony Campolo types) because power and politics are tools of Satan, then go on to argue for government solutions to global warming and health care? Do they really want Satan and his tools cooling our planet and running our health care? Perhaps a more balanced approach is needed.

As an Australian with many European friends, I just have to laugh. Or is that sigh?

In America you have people who are unemployed because they are practically blind, because they can’t afford a $10 grand operation. Here in Australia the same surgery is covered by medicare. They get the operation, and then get out and get a job and start contributing to society.

But that $10 grand operation was done by “THE GOVERNMENT!” BY SATAN! Ummm, chill dude. You’ll live longer. What would you prefer, them sucking down on unemployment or out there working and contributing to society? Or here’s one for you. What if it was just a single mother? She’s not working, but raising a kid. Blind. So she’s sucking down on countless charity sources and welfare and generally not able to raise her kids the way she should. $10 grand fixes that and she’s able to raise her kids and be an economically valuable person again, raising the next generation.

Your dysfunctional health system is joke with some of the highest costs and yet lowest outcomes.
http://one-salient-oversight.blogspot.com/2005/11/socialised-medicine-ideology-or.html

If just calling government health care “SATAN” somehow does it for you, then I’m not impressed and will not be engaging this blog in further conversation. If, however, you think you can justify such a rationale, then maybe I’ll stick around.