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Friday, June 23, 2017

Senators - "Take Up Your Cross , Now!"

Matthew 10:26, 28-34, 38-39 NRSV

10:26 So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known.
10:28 Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
10:30 And even the hairs of your head are all counted.
10:31 So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
10:32 Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven;
10:33 but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.
10:34 Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
10:38 and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
10:39 Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it."

“Take Up the Cross, and Follow Me”

To GOP Senators and House Representatives who consider yourselves people of faith – especially Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and POTUS 45, the day is coming that your works carried out in secret will be uncovered and become known.  Your evil in rushing through legislation that shreds our healthcare system, especially for the poor and middle-class and seniors in order to give obscene tax advantages to the wealthy is an insanity for which you will one stand before God and Christ who will call you to accountability.  You have done what you always do, GOP Senators and Representatives, you take care of the rich as the expense of the poor.  You live by a fatal cognitive distortion that if people just take care of the rich, the rich will take care of them -- never has happened and never will.


You, GOP Members of Congress, are called to “Take Up Your Cross” and create a system of one-payor universal healthcare like every other developed country in the world has done.  Now get it done!  The coming day of God’s Just and Peaceable Kingdom here on Earth depends on you taking this step.  Stand with God or vacate your seat in the Senate or House.


GOP Members of Congress, if you pass bills that fail to cover essential health benefits, allow employers to opt out of providing healthcare coverage for their employees, cost seniors money they don’t have, put people at risk of financial crises and bankruptcy, then you will surely be held accountable for your egregious sins – the same as if each of you took a gun and lined up the sick and the dying and the mentally ill and those who won’t be able to pay their medical bills and insurance – and you put a bullet through each patient’s brain.  By passing the perverse healthcare bills you are now considering because of the perverse way Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and POTUS 45 went about creating such bills, you will carry upon your foreheads the mark of evil and it will be the name of whatever healthcare bill you pass.


Again, GOP Members of Congress, you are called to “Take Up Your Cross” and create a system of one-payor universal healthcare like every other developed country in the world has done.  Now get it done!  The coming day of God’s Just and Peaceable Kingdom here on Earth depends on you taking this step.  Stand with God or vacate your seat in the Senate or House. 


You are called to create a healthcare system that demonstrates the generosity, compassion, and healing power and healing ministries and healing mission of Jesus Christ.  When confronted with the poorest of the poor, the sickest of the sick, and the demon-possessed, Jesus -- unlike you and your disgusting healthcare bills -- did not send anyone away from the source of healing ministries resident within him.  He didn’t say, “Oh, you’re age 27 and you don’t have insurance?  Sorry, I can’t heal you.”  Instead, without asking for anything, he generously and compassionately healed anyone who came to him.


Again, GOP Members of Congress, you are called to “Take Up Your Cross” and create a system of one-payor universal healthcare like every other developed country in the world has done.  Now get it done!  The coming day of God’s Just and Peaceable Kingdom here on Earth depends on you taking this step.  Stand with God or vacate your seat in the Senate or House.


As a person of faith, I find nothing but the brutality of a Herod or Pontius Pilate in behavior from elected persons in the high offices of Senator or Representative who fail to have vision for the future of installing a system of universal healthcare for each and every one of our sisters and brothers and our children and elderly in this country.  I find a deadly ignorance in Senators and Representatives who cannot see their way clear to one-payor universal healthcare that could cut healthcare costs in half by taking the profit motive out of our healthcare system.  What will it take Senators and Representatives for you to see that one payor universal healthcare system is utterly and entirely consistent with the preamble to the Constitution of the United States which calls for our continuing efforts to promote the general welfare and insure domestic tranquility – read it again if you need reminding, it states:  "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The final trumpet blast sounds one last time from the Courts of Heaven: 


GOP Members of Congress, you are called to “Take Up Your Cross” and create a system of one-payor universal healthcare like every other developed country in the world has done.  Now get it done!  The coming day of God’s Just and Peaceable Kingdom here on Earth depends on you taking this step.  Stand with God or vacate your seat in the Senate or House.


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