But we don't hear Christians thumping their bibles now, insisting that Yahweh's commands be the foundation of public policy. I recall so much vociferous outrage when the issue was gay marriage. Homosexuals could not get married because homosexuality is an abomination, and it offends "Yahweh". And they had the passages to back it up. Sure, you had to turn your mind and squint at those passages to arrive at their interpretation. But it could be done.
So Christians are selective in their interpreation and application of the bible. On the one hand, they amplify biblical whispers into thunderous bellows from Yahweh's throne, thereby preventing people from being happily married. On the other hand, they turn their backs to the clearest message of the bible, and in so doing they leave to suffer those they are entrusted to help. Being called to love their neighbor, they reply with an indifferent "no".
"I was sick ... and you did not look after me." "Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me." Matthew 25:31-46
Christians demonstrate how reticent they are to follow what their bible teaches when they so readily cast it aside. And they further demonstrate that they are, like so many religious people, projecting their own prejudices onto their sacred texts, imbuing their own fears and hatred with the authority of Divinity. While it is so very frustrating to see people debase Divinity, it is ever more saddening. (Why it saddens me is a very long tangent.)
I challenge Christians to demonstrate they aren't callously ignoring the inconvenient bulk of the bible by openly supporting public health care. Anything less and you prove your faith to be at best insincere, and at worst an outright lie.
