Health Buzz: State Medicaid Cuts and Other Health News
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For Steve
I am responding to you because a lot of what you opined is unusual and false.
How does a failing healthcare system that is being cut indicate a Theocracy? A Theocracy is indicated by the laws being removed and replaced by a particular religion's rules. You made Christianity an example. So let's say the Ten Commandments and the 2 Greatest Commandments. In these Commandments, there is no discrimination against anyone; they only apply to Christians [Catholics are Christians too].
Women being stoned to death, death for working on the Sabbath, etc., these are not Christian laws. They're not even mentioned in the Ten Commandments nor the 2 Greatest Commandments! Those two laws are from the old system of Judaism, which was eliminated by God while He was Jesus here on Earth. He reinstated the Ten Commandments and added 2 Greatest ones. The two Greatest Commandments are:
1. You shall love God with all your might, with all your body, with all your soul, etc. If you are Christian, then love for God is total.
2. You shall love your neighbour as you do yourself. Again, if you are Christian, this should be followed. You must even love your enemies while defending yourself from unjust harm. For example, the kind terrorists and warmongers do, regardless of religion.
What "old men" are you quoting? It sounds like you're talking about the two bodies of older Judaism's Priests. They have nothing to do with Christianity.
God is only greedy for our love, not for anything else. Wealth means nothing to Him. It is merely a human invention. Satan and his followers are greedy. Humankind can become greedy. We need to pray for all who are greedy, that they may learn that just treatment, love, and friendship are the values that should be cherished.
The Catholic Church was started by God as Jesus Christ, in 33 A.D. He gave Peter the Keys to the Kingdom, making Peter the first Pope. Constantine was never a pope. As far as anyone knows, he was a struggling Catholic that had difficulty following his religion in such a pagan era and foolishly tried to manage it all on his own. He should've had a bishop or some other advisor. This way, so much wrongdoing that he had done would not have happened. Even learning the Ten Commandments would've contributed to better justice.
The idea that the Middle Ages were "Dark Ages" is a Protestant notion. The only way it was a dark age was because so many were illiterate. However, that was normal at the time, due to various factors, none of which were involved with religion. It was also the time when Protestant Chrsitianity began as a protest against the Catholic Church.
The Church did not hand over any Jews. They tried to protect them. Where do you get this absurd notion that they hate the Jews? They don't. They just do not follow Jewish laws.
You badly need to do real research on the various religions you're bashing, as you sound like a Jack Chick wannabe. A good source to get you started is here...
http://www.catholic.com/library.asp
Your country is not gonna BE, period
Because in a normal country people would be out rioting in the streets by the millions.
Not in America. You reap exactly what you sow.
What Have We Become?
Taking life-saving services away from the poor and needy is immoral. Social Darwinism is immoral. Cut prison funds, the funds that have been hijacked by the prison-guards union. Cut war spending - $1,000,000,000 every week to good-old-boy contractors. We have the money to care for our people, but we waste it on corporate contracts for more and more prisons and more and more wars. What is my country going to be like in 100 years?
Church controling medical care and availability
The new health rules are nothing but another attempt by bush and the repubs to turn America into a christian Theocracy where the church rules regardless of what other people think, and our supposed commitment to freedom of religion, which certainly includes freedom from the church imposing their so called values. They could ultimately more into a Christian version of the taliban nation. A theocracy. They, not the Islamic terrorists are the greatest threat to America, for they would destroy the very foundations of American Justice. And their greed for power would be never ending. Think of it - women being stoned to death for unfaithfulness, death for working on the sabbath,etc. All because of rantings from old men who were not elected by the people, and whose greatest gift is how they use guilt, fear, terror, and the supposed life after death if you do what they say to capture minds. And meanwhile their buddies, the super-rich of the republicans would continue their goal of stealing from and destroying the middle class to feed their God of Greed, while their extremist religious buddies destroyed freedom in our nation.
This has happened in world history before. The Catholic Church combined with the emporer constantine about 250 AD. And what followed was a thousand year dark ages, where tens of millions of Muslims were murdered in the name of God, a million women were burned at the stake as witches, the inquisition tortured and murdered tens of thousands who dared question the popes authority, eg that the world was flat.
And how they spread hatred against the Jews for millenia - hatred that gave hitler the key to gaining total control of Germany, and giving us WWII.
Thesed right wing religions are the greatest threat there is to human freedom and humanity. They are ,or would be just like extremist Islam, except they are more subtle about it. Their only real goal is power and money.
