Re: David Cross on Health Care

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, pcg wrote:
> Yes, our salvation is worked out through our personal actions, our 
> relationship to Christ, and our daily lives. But where there is 
> opportunity to do good, and indeed to help fulfill some of Christ's most 
> relevant commands, I believe we have a responsibility to lend our 
> support if we can.

You can lend your own support whenever you want to.  It's when you try to 
lend *other* people's support (through taxes etc.) that you run into 
trouble.  Or at least complications.

> If we choose not to, I believe that on judgement day, we'll have some 
> 'splainin' to do, and I just don't feel like God will be interested in 
> the finer points of how our particular economic system figures into it.

Quite so.  And that sword cuts both ways.  I imagine some people might be 
inclined to do less than they otherwise would because "that's the 
government's job", and I imagine that this argument, too, might not get 
very far.

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