Posted on 05/08/2017 5:43:17 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
On today’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough said he didn’t want to bring religion into the health care debate. But he then proceeded to do just that.
He said that he’s not judging anybody, but then said that the Republican health care bill can’t be defended “morally.”
Scarborough:
“I’m sorry, don’t want to bring religion into this, but if you are a Matthew 25 Christian and you believe what Jesus says, that we will be judged on how we treat the poorest among us, then there is no legislative justification for cutting $650 billion in health benefits. And then turning around in the same bill and benefiting the richest among us $800, $850 billion.
I’m not judging anybody. I’m just saying, if Paul Ryan or somebody had asked me beforehand, I would say, you can’t do it politically, and I’m not being self-righteous here, because I’m the last person to be self-righteous, but you can’t do it morally either.“
View the video here.
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Guaranteed engine-starter ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Have at it, Christian FReepers!
Government is not society.
We will be judged by our voluntary actions to help our neighbors, and not by mandated government welfare programs that enrich the bureaucrats.
Christ never meant for the tax collectors to take care of the unfortunate.
Is Joe saying no one was a true Christian before government health care funding came along?
There is not one syllable in the New Testament that suggests that caring for the poor is a function of government.
What a degenerate.
Years ago, when I was still a liberal of sorts I became concerned about the issue of battered women. There were lots of opportunities to donate money in our county since the DA was doing fund raising to build or buy a house. At that time there was no actual shelter but there was a program for individuals to take women who were battered and their children into one’s home. So one summer we did that. Our neighbors and a couple of local businesses were amazingly supportive. But when I realized that one of the women was calling her boyfriend to bring her drugs, I stopped our involvement. Still, the way to help others is to get personally involved, not just throw money at people.
I love when liberals who haven’t cracked a Bible in...ever proceed to lecture us on the tenets of our faith.
Hey Joe, wanna play that game, let’s talk II Thessalonians 3:10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
Another thing a Christian can’t do is leave their wife for a coworker.
Oops.
As a Christian, I see no virtue or charity at all in the Left’s generosity with other people’s money. I would happily give 10% of my income to a medical charity (actually, I have given than that every year for two decades), but I despise Obamacare and socialized medicine. Medical insurance is not a proper role for government, and the incentive structures that always appear with socialized medicine raise costs while reducing the quality of medical care.
I care enough about the poor and the sick to help them in this area, but I care far too much about them to put the people who brought us the IRS in charge of their medical care. The Bible tells me what my responsibility is, and nowhere does it say to steal from others to help the sick.
Well Joe, you think you’re a religious scholar, then please tell me how you can defend abortion. Show me in the Bible where it is OK to murder babies. Liberals are the scum of the earth.
Perhaps Scarborough should review the Ten Commandments before giving advice to other Christians.
Government is not the individual; and it is the individual who is held to a standard of giving to the poor and charity overall based upon his one-on-one relationship with the sovereign God.
The Christian individual cannot abdicate or slough off his personal responsibility to the weak and the orphan and the unloved by paying taxes to, or voting for, a Government which may or may not have a good law about how to handle poverty and sickness.
He doesn’t understand Matthew 25.
The criterion of judgment for all the nations is their treatment of those who have borne to the world the message of Jesus, and this means ultimately their acceptance or rejection of Jesus himself; cf. Mt 10:40, “Whoever receives you, receives me.” See note on Mt 16:27.
http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/25
Me thinks he’s pussy whipped.
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