(Re-post for the current health care debate)
A few years ago Garrison Keillor suggested a way to solve our health care crisis, and it's even more relevant today: impose faith-based medicine on all Republicans. That would reduce, by at least a third, the total US health care cost, while encouraging (okay, requiring) the religious right (and those who go along with them) to practice their faith.
Here's how it would work (with biblical justification, of course).
Sick republicans would ask their religious leaders to pray for them (and maybe get anointed with Crisco oil).
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. --James 5:14-15
Or, if they choose, they can try touching their religious leader's handkerchief or something.
So that from his [Paul's] body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them. -- Acts 19:12
But under the faith-based medical plan, Republicans would not be allowed to go to a doctor. Because God is insulted when they trust science more than faith.
And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians. -- 2 Chronicles 16:12As Garrison Keillor said
Let them try faith-based medicine, let them pray for their arteries to be reamed and their hips to be restored, and leave science to the rest of us.
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Sheer brilliance. I nominate this as the best idea of the year.
I concur. And... There's plenty of other versus to support this too.
Steve, you are brilliant. How ever did you find all these verses to support your arguments? I mean, I know the BLB source, but you have to know what you're looking for in order to find it. Your grasp of the Bible is nothing short of encyclopediac. I bow to you, sir.
"When I see an amputee's arm grow back as a result of prayer, I will become an instant believer. All their other alleged miracle cures are fakes."
Bernard Tarmin, 2000
ok u have a point i admit but also why should people trust medical science. large studies are being done and 100,000 people die per year in the united states alone more then the annual heart disease rate from medicine side effects killing them that is close on 300,000 people dieing from medicine per year more then from cancer. Ever since my friend died from an overdose of medication which was ordered by a dr despite 3 other drs saying he was giving to much. Also if you are vomiting, nausea, hair falling out, major pains in tummy would you at all believe it is a sign you are getting better??? well my friend was told that. During WW1 and WW2 they used a gas to kill the enemy it was known as Mustard gas which killed by breathing it in now modern science has given it a new name Chemotherapy and injects it directly into the body. Now i cant see how that will cure anyone. sure it kills the cancer but also kills the organs and everything else excuse me if i being picky but something thats kills me faster then the cancer i dont see as a cure. Only reason people seeming to live longer is cuz cancer being detected earlier people still dieing at the same stage of cancer if not in most cases earlier because of Chemo. The switze have recognised this and use alternative medicine. More and more people are turning to alternative medicine, like chiropractic for some problems (which even though extensive studies have proved it work medicine companys say it dont) Their are people drs have told they have 1 week to live that chemo will do nothing and to go home and die who went home took alternative medicines and 3 months came bak with cancer nearly all gone. what is drs reaction?? oh wow this is a miracle now we can pump chemo into you again HELLO the chemo is wat put them into the original state the natural stuff pulled them out why must the dr refuse to see the good and try to kill again.
i am sick of people knocking anything that is different to what the big companys are selling. COME ON WAKE UP SMELL THE POO they are companys they need to make sales why sell natural stuff that cheap when they can sell toxic stuff that gets them more money as they have to make it and then they sell medicine to counter the side effects from the medicine that is counter acting the side effects of another medicine (i know cuz i was in that situation taking 3 medication 1 to make me drowsy another to make me more alert and another to counter both the previous 2. Since going off medicine i been better then iwas while on it. Now maybe prayer alone dont cure cancer but faith does. Drs have said people cant walk again but with determination and faith they have. again a close friend rolled car and drs declared him paraplegic from neck down and nothing they could do funny he now playing the piano and walking round on a walking frame and drs say only reason he walking was his determination and faith.
i sending anonymous cuz i couldnt be bothered coming bak reading this garbage u put up here and cuz their no use signing up.
Isn't this a re-post?
Yes, twillight, it's a re-post. I thought it might be relevant to the current health care debate.
I've added a note to say it is a re-post. Thanks.
Makes sense to me; screw the Republicans! Let them have a taste of their own medicine... that being, none at all!
I like where Keillor is coming from, but I'd tweak it to ensure that anyone who disbelieves in evolution should abandon all modern medicine, since modern medicine is based on our understanding of biology, of which we would have none without evolution.
Of course this likely means Keillor and I are covering the same ground, but I'd just like to make it more explicit.
The left is always screaming "Tolerance" but this is the sort of intolerance that they really practice. I suppose that the left would have the Republicans pay for all of these programs as well? Steve - I've been reading your "Skeptics Annotated Bible" and I must say that you clearly don't get it at all. Far from being "encyclopedic" you take everything out of context and ridicule it. The preaching of the cross would seam foolish to you.
It is very obvious to me that Pelosi, Obama, Reid and company care much less about health care than politics and controlling everybody's lives. Of course they want to screw the republicans out of their money so they can give paybacks to all their union, pro-abortion, ACORN, welfare, etc... support team. Oh yeah - and Keillor is an idiot.
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