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The conservative Christian's reaction to "Obama-Care."
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From a distantly observant standpoint, it is a baffling concept that the majority of Christians are conservative Republicans. Perhaps the biggest liberal of all time was Jesus Christ Himself. To many, that must be a blasphemous concept to consider, but it's true. People these days have ceased pondering what the words liberal and conservative actually mean, and now simply associate them with baby-killing Democrats and insane evangelical Republicans. But the terms really aren't as bound to their stigmas as people would lead themselves to believe. The phrase “Jesus was a liberal” may send a cold, tingling chill down the spine of some evangelical pastor in Texas who thinks that Harry Potter books should be treated as witchcraft, but it doesn’t make it any less true. His ideals were going against what was conservative and he was the biggest extremist in human history (love your enemy, rich men can’t get into heaven, who does He think he is?! Oh yeah... God). Now, does this mean that Democrats have Jesus on their side with their liberal issues? Not exactly. This article is merely a commentary of the contradictory political reaction of conservative Christians in the past few months with current events. When gay marriage reared its controversial head, many Republican Christians came out in droves to protest it and made claims that gay marriage was against God and that if same sex marriage was legalized, the country would plunge into a gigantic sin-fest. Sin-Fest… That’d be a good name for a heavy metal music festival. In the media today, however, gay marriage is SO 2008 and the big hullabaloo is about health care now (the media only gets around to addressing about four issues that circulate every few years in a never-ending cycle, though-- Next season—You thought the fight for stem cell research was over, you thought wrong!). So, once again, with a liberal issue, many Republican Christians have come out in the droves to convey their contempt with the idea of universal health care. Now, there are many problems people have with what is being touted Obama-Care, but besides Sarah Palin inanely ranting on her Facebook and the legitimate concern of raised taxes and lower quality health care, one of the most resounding proclamations coming from conservative Christians has been: “I’m not paying for some welfare jerk’s hospital bill” or “if you want health care, then get a job!” Somehow, according to certain Christians, God picks and chooses which political confrontation He wants to weigh in on. With gay marriage, He was all over the place! Bible verse here, bible verse there, Rick Warren here, President Monson there, but He’s nowhere to be found on this one for some strange reason. The Christian right hasn’t brought Him up once because there aren’t bible verses that support blatantly selfish catharsis. There are only verses that say we need to help the poor, love our neighbor and love our enemy and welcome the less fortunate with open arms. People were so quick to want to force their Christian values on people who didn’t necessarily share their beliefs, but none of them want to force those same values on themselves! Anne Lamott (actually one of her friends) wrote: “You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” That seems to be rather prevalent in this classic case of hypocrisy here. The phrase What Would Jesus Do is pretty cheesy, but it’s a darn good philosophy to instill in one’s head. Now, every last person on this Earth is a hypocrite (most certainly me), there isn’t anybody who can escape their own hypocrisy, but it’s something that we can all improve on and people should really think before they run away with their knee-jerk reactions. This article wasn’t meant to be for or against one way or the other, just a mere opposition and observation of hypocrisy in human behavior and how we need to stop picking and choosing where God enters into our lives as Christians.
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