Well, as we all have already heard, healthcare reform has passed. Probably not the reform you or I had hoped for, but tomorrow it will be in law. As I think about the tragic implications of this "historic" reform I have to think about exactly why it is tragic. It's not because it's going to financially break us all, and it will. It's not because of too much government control, and there is too much. It's not even because some it could possibly lead to the overturning of many anti-abortion laws that will stop protecting the lives of the innocent to protect the lives of those living with consequences of the life they made or didn't. It's because we, as the Church, dropped the ball.
Healthcare is our responsibility Church. There's no way around it. We were called to it by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. "For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me." Matthew 25:35-36. Social responsibility is our gig. Did you know we only tithe (which literally means 10%) 2-3% of our incomes. When are we going to get out of our seats and get dirty; when are we going to give, not out of our surplus, but out of our love? We could have avoided this. Now we get to live with the consequences. Maybe, just maybe when we begin to take our faith seriously, we won't live in a world dependent on the governments of this world.
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