Overwhelmingly opposed by the majority of the American people, the first step of forcing another piece of totalitarian governmental control down our throats has succeeded. The health care bill has passed in the House of Representatives, 219 - 212.
Although the political significance of this rejection of the desire of the American citizenry is not lost on most, the spiritual implications have not yet been realized. By the passage of this measure in the House, we are one step closer to having government assume the place of God in our lives.
The Republican leadership, still stinging from having lost the presidency in the last general election, voted against it without equivocation.
Perhaps realizing that their only chance to regain even a modicum of respect of the people, they have stood fast against it. Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY) has properly described the measure as an “exercise in idolatrous statism.”
While the Democrats continued their grandstanding about the fictitious little girl in New York who will miss out on health care as a result of any defeat of this bill, the Republicans continued to hammer home the fact that this Bill benefits only 15% of Americans and will burden the 85% who are opposed.
The myth of the will of the people being the guiding light of the Democrats has been exposed.
To quote the comic strip character Maxine:
Let me get this straight......we're trying to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president that also hasn't read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke.
What the hell could possibly go wrong?
Although this author does not wish to impose his faith on any against their will, the fact is that should this measure become law, the faith of Atheists in their government to protect them from all ills, will have been imposed upon me and my brethren against our will.
This piece of legislation does in essence, remove the believer’s right to depend upon God and forces us to go to a government we do not trust, to seek healing. The Atheists have their right to reject the belief that God alone determines who should live and who should die. Believers should not be forced to recant their belief that who should have life and who should suffer death are God’s prerogative alone.
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
America is now one step closer to the day of her judgment.
© 2010 Craig Portwood
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