Friday, March 26, 2010

Why the fuss?

I rarely comment on political issues, but this question from a Sri Lankan Christian needs a good answer (HT: Scot McKnight):

Most of us non-Americans are naturally nonplussed at the fury that Barak Obama’s health care reform bill has unleashed. It perplexes us that so many suburban American Christians who do not care one iota about a trillion-dollar military budget, and wax eloquently about being zealously ”pro-life”, are now indignant about their state spending public funds to make the poor Americans more equal to them when it comes to receiving medical treatment and enjoying good health! Please, could some Republican party Christian explain these anomalies to the rest of the Body of Christ around the world?

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I certainly can't answer it. I have always been amazed at the willingness of one end of the political spectrum to destroy people in the womb, and the willingness of the opposite end to destroy them once they are out of it. Of course, the one extreme does attempt to only destroy the ones who are opposed to "American interests," which only raises more questions in my mind...

Perhaps the answers are found in Genesis 3 and the encounter with the serpent?
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