Comments on: Rep Joe Wilson Calls Obama a Liar, Fake Outrage, Memories of Bush http://www.colleenhammond.com/politics/rep-joe-wilson-calls-obama-a-liar-fake-outrage-memories-of-bush/ Thoughts from a Mother of Four in Texas Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:17:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Barbara http://www.colleenhammond.com/politics/rep-joe-wilson-calls-obama-a-liar-fake-outrage-memories-of-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-441 Barbara Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:27:24 +0000 http://www.colleenhammond.com/?p=2379#comment-441 So, where in Rerum Novarum or Caritas In Veritate does it say that heathcare is a universal human right? I'll be waiting for that response with great interest. Where does it say that you may coerce from me my wealth to spend it on what you see fit? "If anyone will not work neither shall he eat" - 2 Thessalonians 3:10-11, the first political principle of early Christian communities, must seem terribly "individualistic" to you, but cannot you see the difference between praising the Good Samaritan and putting a gun to his head and forcing his charity? Forcing him means an END to charity, because it is not freely given. Oh, and by the way, all my "cash" in this life, which you suppose I am rolling in and attached to, is going to pay for my own children's healthcare, food, and education. They are the proper objects of justice proximate to me. Why should I have to pay for yours? Are you going to force me to pay for your mortgage too? Or your credit card debt? Or your bad investments? Perhaps you envision a "debt free life" or a nice home a universal human right as well, and you'll use the law to extort even more cash from me, and use some vague misinterpretation of Christian Charity to pressure me into silence. What would Jesus extort? Hmmmm. Whatever. So, where in Rerum Novarum or Caritas In Veritate does it say that heathcare is a universal human right? I’ll be waiting for that response with great interest. Where does it say that you may coerce from me my wealth to spend it on what you see fit? “If anyone will not work neither shall he eat” – 2 Thessalonians 3:10-11, the first political principle of early Christian communities, must seem terribly “individualistic” to you, but cannot you see the difference between praising the Good Samaritan and putting a gun to his head and forcing his charity? Forcing him means an END to charity, because it is not freely given.

Oh, and by the way, all my “cash” in this life, which you suppose I am rolling in and attached to, is going to pay for my own children’s healthcare, food, and education. They are the proper objects of justice proximate to me. Why should I have to pay for yours? Are you going to force me to pay for your mortgage too? Or your credit card debt? Or your bad investments? Perhaps you envision a “debt free life” or a nice home a universal human right as well, and you’ll use the law to extort even more cash from me, and use some vague misinterpretation of Christian Charity to pressure me into silence.

What would Jesus extort? Hmmmm. Whatever.

]]> By: Prescott http://www.colleenhammond.com/politics/rep-joe-wilson-calls-obama-a-liar-fake-outrage-memories-of-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-440 Prescott Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:31:34 +0000 http://www.colleenhammond.com/?p=2379#comment-440 Spoken like a true individualist. You should spend some time with Rerum novarum and Caritas in veritate. Aligning yourself with the Republican party and the insurance lobby may gain you a little more cash in this life, but don't you think a more eschatalogical world-view would pay bigger dividends in the long run? Spoken like a true individualist. You should spend some time with Rerum novarum and Caritas in veritate. Aligning yourself with the Republican party and the insurance lobby may gain you a little more cash in this life, but don’t you think a more eschatalogical world-view would pay bigger dividends in the long run?

]]> By: Barbara http://www.colleenhammond.com/politics/rep-joe-wilson-calls-obama-a-liar-fake-outrage-memories-of-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-439 Barbara Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:52:21 +0000 http://www.colleenhammond.com/?p=2379#comment-439 Taking a step in a "Christian direction" would hardly include confiscating the hard earned wealth of others and giving it to those who haven't earned it to pay for something they haven't worked for. If you, out of charity, would like to pay for someone's health care, fine. Do it. But don't use the law to steal from me and my family to accomplish your charity, or blame those who work for a profit for having the ingenuity and drive to make some money. You think a private corporation is cold? Try dealing with the government. Soon your forced charity will be paying for abortions, sterilizations, euthanasia, contraception, and a host of other plagues that attend socialized medicine. The heaven you wish for on earth will be a virtual fountainhead of vice, and they'll be nothing you can do to stop it. Taking a step in a “Christian direction” would hardly include confiscating the hard earned wealth of others and giving it to those who haven’t earned it to pay for something they haven’t worked for. If you, out of charity, would like to pay for someone’s health care, fine. Do it. But don’t use the law to steal from me and my family to accomplish your charity, or blame those who work for a profit for having the ingenuity and drive to make some money. You think a private corporation is cold? Try dealing with the government. Soon your forced charity will be paying for abortions, sterilizations, euthanasia, contraception, and a host of other plagues that attend socialized medicine. The heaven you wish for on earth will be a virtual fountainhead of vice, and they’ll be nothing you can do to stop it.

]]> By: Prescott http://www.colleenhammond.com/politics/rep-joe-wilson-calls-obama-a-liar-fake-outrage-memories-of-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-437 Prescott Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:22:39 +0000 http://www.colleenhammond.com/?p=2379#comment-437 So what? The booing, catcalls, heckling is a non-issue. Let 'em yell. The real story is that he got it done. Praise God this country is soon going to be a place where people aren't denied care by profit-driven, cold, calculating corporations. We're taking a step in a Christian direction. So what? The booing, catcalls, heckling is a non-issue. Let ‘em yell. The real story is that he got it done. Praise God this country is soon going to be a place where people aren’t denied care by profit-driven, cold, calculating corporations. We’re taking a step in a Christian direction.

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