'Christianized' Health Care.

Hi everyone, I hate to say it, but this post does steam from Oprah. No I don't watch the show, but I did happen to see a few minutes on Thursday. I digress.

Micheal Moore along with several other people who I've never heard of were on the show. The subject? Socialized Health care. Now frankly I have no problem with them advocating that system, although it does lessen my already low opinions of them, but then Mr. Moore made a comment that really rubbed me the wrong way. He doesn't like the phrase socialized health care, he'd rather call it Christianized Health care, and went on to 'quote' the Bible to 'prove' his point. By quote I mean he talked about how in the Bible Jesus says to feed the hungry etc. By prove I mean make a total Red Herring. By Red Herring I mean He takes the word Socialism out of the picture(it was referred to as an ugly word, and not without reason) and sets up Christians as hypocrites, which is rumored to be his favorite past time after hanging a frozen Han Solo on his wall. Wait...

My issues with Mr. Moore's statement: First, Nowhere in the Bible, does it ever say that it's the government's duty to mandate charity. The idea that the government should force people to help other people is completely un-Biblical. Charity comes from the heart, if anything taxes should be cut to give the individual more resources to use for charity.

Second, such a system is so amazingly un democratic that I cringe at the thought of such a system being in a democracy. Even if socialized Health care was implemented by the Democracy, it still ignores the rights of the majority and harms the majority.

Third let's look at how this happens. On Oprah Mr. Moore talked about how a women with cancer from (insert a different state than the one in which you reside) should receive government aid to fight her cancer. Nice idea, but then we think about something, government aid means you money. It means my money. Essentially Mr. Moore would have us sit in front of a Doctor's office and have us give every person who comes out a bit of our income. Now this completely erodes the meaning of the same Bible Passage he quoted earlier. Christianity is a religion of free will. No one is forced to accepted it, Christianity is a choice, a choice with eternal consequences, but a choice. If we are not given the choice to help people we lose any Christian aspect to Mr. Moore's semantics.

I'd also like to point out that renaming a bad system doesn't make it any better, Socialism is just that, Socialism. Socialism is in fact the perfect form of government, we all share we all get along. We're all happy. Socialism is the perfect form of government, but has a snowball's chance in Hell actually working. This perfect form of government requires perfect people. For socialism to work it has to have not a single greedy person involved, and since we have no perfect people to test that on it's only a theory. In reality we don't have perfect people making this perfect form of government far for perfect. The government will always be fallible, people will never be prefect.

Stay Free, Matt.