A response to the Tea Party rally in Houghton this past Saturday:
I know for a fact that some of the Tea Party supporters are Christian church members. It is hard to understand how they can be so against Obama’s attempts to help people with no insurance. If they follow Christ’s teachings they can find him saying that we should take care of widows and orphans. To me, that means people with no insurance, people who need to be taken care of, who are powerless to do so on their own.
I hear Tea Party people complaining that it will cost them money.
Why not listen to another Biblical message: Thou shalt not kill…?
Our military budget has grown to around half of our whole entire national budget. How about taking some of that money to put into our health care system?
These seem like angry people. A better place to put their anger would be against the war. I’d love to see that crowd of people protesting the war which kills people, rather than being so against something that will help people live.
-Joyce Koskenmaki
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Hi Joyce,
First, let me say I love your drawings. I’m a very proud relative when I see your name attached to them.
Roy and Ellen were my parents.
Now, to comment on your post. Please take it as discussion and as an explanation of the Christian point of view, not a personal denigration of you as that is not how it is meant.
I think you have a misunderstanding of what Christian charity is. It flows from the heart, and is highly personal. Taxes are not. They are a “render unto Caesar” duty due a legit government.
Charity is me giving of myself, of what I own, of what I possess. Charity is not passing a law so that I force other people to give at the point of the government’s gun for that is, in effect, the force behind taxation. Charity is not me giving away what someone else earned, what someone else possesses. Charity is not me taking from your pocket, or you taking from mine, to give to someone in need. That is theft.
I don’t have the right, and neither do you, to take what another person owns, no matter how noble the cause.
I’m not a member of the Tea Party, and have never attended one of their meetings. I was raised as a Christian, but have not attended church for years. I do, however, understand what Christianity is, and the principles on which it stands. Christianity is about personal responsibility, not some kind of corporate (as in all of humanity) responsibility. It’s no different than the Christian concept of salvation. It’s all personal. I can’t save you, and you can’t save me. It’s only our personal relationship with God that can save us, if that salvation is something we choose.
This is why Christians can, and I believe should, oppose Obama care and they do so well within the concepts taught within the Bible.
What you espouse is actually Socialism masquerading as Christian charity. The two, Socialism and Christianity, have nothing in common in the basic precepts upon which both are built. They are, in fact, at opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum and as such diametrically opposed to each other.
Sincerely,
Gary