Michael Moore, a Catholic, was on “The View” yesterday and after receiving plaudits from Barbara Walters for his new movie “Sicko,” Moore got into a little religious argument with guest host “Star Parker,” a religious conservative.
Moore identified himself as a practicing Catholic and said Jesus wants socialized health care. I love how liberals invoke Jesus on these issues while completely ignoring Him on everything else.
Moore said, “Jesus told us we would be judged by how we treated the least among us and we shouldn’t maybe call this socialized medicine we should call it Christianized medicine.” (Would “Christianized medicine” cover embryonic stem cell research, late term abortions, trans-gender operations?”)
Star Parker made a great counter point if you can hear her under Moore and Barbara Walters who were clearly shouting her down. She said Jesus didn’t tell us to “go into our neighbor’s pocket and make them do it. He said we should do it individually.”
Here’s the thing. I love calling it “Christianized Medicine” because then the government wouldn’t be able to take over the health care industry because of the Separation of Church and State.
June 22, 2007 at 7:25 pm
VILE. Absolutely VILE.
Socialism is NOT Christian. Helping out the poor in a Christian manner means using your own resources voluntarily.
Leftists, hear this:
Advocating socialism in no way satisfies ANY of your obligation to help the poor. It counts for nothing.
St Peter: “what did you do to help the poor?”.
You: “I used the government to force others to help the poor”.
St Peter: “Sorry, that doesn’t count.”
We’ll all listen to you after you use your own resources voluntarily to pay for someone else’s health care – until then, speak to the hand.
June 23, 2007 at 4:27 am
Michael Moore claims to be a practicing Catholic? Oh. My. Goodness. Has he deluded himslef about what being Catholic is all about as much as he has deluded himself that he is a film maker?
Christine
July 27, 2008 at 11:27 am
I can give you a fairly concise argument as to why socialism (in some cases) is entirely Christian. It has to do with results.
This was said earlier: “Helping out the poor in a Christian manner means using your own resources voluntarily.”
The problem, you see, is that voluntarily helping with your own money is not sufficient to solve the problem. As such, one can help MORE people by advocating change in the laws of the nation. And, on the simple assumption that people should opt for the most efficacious path, people should try to change the laws.
The argument that control is not Christian simply won’t fly. I could make the same exact argument about murder:
We shouldn’t have laws about murder because that’s just a way of using the government to force other peoples’ actions. The only viable path, then, is to voluntarily not murder others.
Insane. We have a government so that we can limit suffering, there’s no reason to put our heads in the sand on this issue while european nations spend a TON less on healthcare than we do and get better results (longer life expectancy).