CDZ U.S. Christian organizations should adopt health care

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Jul 5, 2012
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Since government run health care in America poses so many questions, and seeing as health care is necessary and possible for all, isn't it logical that those who follow the teachings of Jesus would step in to administer a plan for all? All denominations together, and of course with financial input of participants, could certainly take care of it all. Any charity part would only be for a relatively few that really, verifiably had no means. And tax payers' money would not be involved, so even the stingiest could not complain.
 
Your interesting proposal shines the spotlight on what has long been a strong point of division among Christian denominations: the social gospel. The growing belief in large scale Christian charitable efforts which peaked a century of so ago was stamped down by the rapid rise of fundamentalism with its renewed emphasis on the doctrine of salvation through individual faith and a direct one-on-one connection between the individual believer and God. Charity as an individual virtue began to displace organized Christian efforts whether at the church or the state level. Calvinist doctrine was tweaked into a kind of free market spiritual capitalism, a competitive struggle for the spiritual wealth of Heaven in contrast to the bankrupt salvation of Hell.

The shattering blows dealt to our mainline Christian churches in the past fifty years make recovery from the fundamentalist transformation of Christian belief increasingly unlikely, but there is always the possibility of a miracle. God has got a million of 'em.
 
Since government run health care in America poses so many questions, and seeing as health care is necessary and possible for all, isn't it logical that those who follow the teachings of Jesus would step in to administer a plan for all? All denominations together, and of course with financial input of participants, could certainly take care of it all. Any charity part would only be for a relatively few that really, verifiably had no means. And tax payers' money would not be involved, so even the stingiest could not complain.
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The page with prices and services, not any cheaper than the ACA.
 
No avowed 'conservatives' or 'Christians' see this as a fair way to end what they don't like about collective care? Otherwise, what they like to call 'socialized medicine' is about all that is left to civilized people.
 

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