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Friday, August 21, 2009

How to think theologically about health care

At Street Prophets' pastordan writes:

It's not about "us" at all. Harry Jackson, of all people, gets it right when we calls health care reform "reverse classism." It is! It is about choosing the side of the poor, the working and the middle class over and against the rich. ... that's the side God takes. God has taken a preferential option for the poor, and God will work out the implications of that choice in due time. We are only involved to the extent that we choose to cooperate with the plan or not.

Read the entire piece here.

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