Jesus never once told us to support government-run health care. He would NEVER condone a health care plan that paid for abortion. He would never support the forcible confiscation of wealth from one group of people for benefit of another.
Of all the things the left does, I would say that perversion of the The Gospel ranks up there at the top. Although I get a good laugh out of pro-baby-killing leftists questioning my Christian faith as they point out that I am supposed to support this health law because I am supposed to help "the least of people."
While we’re comparing the health care monstrosity with Scripture, how about Matthew 25, the Parable of the Talents...
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025:14-30&version=AMP
The master, upon returning home, rewarded the man who took 5 talents and turned them into 10. He rewarded the man by taking the 1 talent given to another man who buried it. Using the left’s logic, the man who buried his one talent should be rewarded.
“He would never support the forcible confiscation of wealth from one group of people for benefit of another.”
I think you’re right about this. On the other hand, there’s also this:
19:16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
19:18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
19:20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
19:22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away
sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
19:23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
I’ve always found these verses a bit difficult to understand, since, clearly, if EVERYONE in the producing sector gave away his money to the poor, eventually there would be no one producing anything anymore - and then who would feed the wandering disciples?
I don’t claim to be a Bible scholar, but this would certainly seem, at least, to advocate some variety of communism. Maybe more than that, since Jesus isn’t advocating that everyone share the means of production, as did Marx, but, rather, that everyone follow Him and give up production altogether.
Or am I way off base?