So I'm sitting in church today as I do most every Sunday and the church bulletin says that today's message is titled "Stewardship: The cost of living... When you are rich." Considering the debate over health care and the right's position of "It's my money," it piqued my interest, to say the least. There was potential in this topic, but based on past experiences with my church I wasn't going to get my hopes up. Turns out it was a good thing I didn't.
During this message of stewardship in which we were told that the Bible directs us to do good things with our wealth which is a "gift from God" (and we were given multiple statistics proving that we, as Americans, are wealthy in comparison with the global population [wink, wink]), it was made clear that we often confuse our wants with our needs. According to my pastor, we sometimes believe that we are entitled to certain things when in reality we're not. I was pretty sure I knew where this was going. And wouldn't you know it, it wasn't long before we were told in no uncertain terms that "health care is not a right, but a privilege." (As I have on other issues (gay marriage), I plan on making my disagreement known.)
So this started me thinking. If we're to go to our Bibles for guidance, wasn't it Jesus who raised Lazarus from the dead? Wasn't it Jesus who healed the blind man? Wasn't it Jesus who healed the lame man by the pool? And this left me with one question: Who Would Jesus Insure?
I think the answer is obvious. But apparently, in the Christian conservative world, God loves certain people more than others as he has bestowed upon them the blessing of money with which to purchase health care while he has destined others to live a life of disease. Too bad Jesus didn't get the memo.
I'm just sayin'...