Must We Agree?
Many have become upset with those of us, that frequently criticize our country. The slogan “America love it or leave it” was frequently shouted at anyone, who was critical of Vietnam War. Today, criticism of our dysfunctional health care system will earn the label of being a person that hates America.
It appears that criticizing one’s country, which has attained such a high standard of living is somehow unpatriotic. There has never been a relationship between a nation’s quality of life and its moral standards. Those that equate criticism of one’s country with that of being unpatriotic do not understand the premises upon which democracy is based or that their identity is so terribly intertwined with that of their nation that they have seemingly lost the capacity to reason in an objective manner. By making our nation the issue, blame is shifted away from what is being perpetuated by the current leadership.
The typical American tends to be terribly ethnocentric. Many American act as if having been born in the United States bestows upon them the right of a privileged person. Even worse than ethnocentrism is the narrow-mindedness, which leads to an unreasoning sense of arrogance generally referred to as the arrogance of ignorance.
Most Americans look upon Christianity as the only road that leads to salvation, which suggests that every other faith leads to the fires of Hell. For many capitalism is a system of doing business which has received the blessing of God.
The goal of our present health care industry is to maximize profits. Employees, who deny people health care get a bonus, because denial of a claim saves the company money. I can not agree with such a system.
Let’s call universal health care “Christianized” medicine, because that‘s what Jesus would want us to do.
It appears that criticizing one’s country, which has attained such a high standard of living is somehow unpatriotic. There has never been a relationship between a nation’s quality of life and its moral standards. Those that equate criticism of one’s country with that of being unpatriotic do not understand the premises upon which democracy is based or that their identity is so terribly intertwined with that of their nation that they have seemingly lost the capacity to reason in an objective manner. By making our nation the issue, blame is shifted away from what is being perpetuated by the current leadership.
The typical American tends to be terribly ethnocentric. Many American act as if having been born in the United States bestows upon them the right of a privileged person. Even worse than ethnocentrism is the narrow-mindedness, which leads to an unreasoning sense of arrogance generally referred to as the arrogance of ignorance.
Most Americans look upon Christianity as the only road that leads to salvation, which suggests that every other faith leads to the fires of Hell. For many capitalism is a system of doing business which has received the blessing of God.
The goal of our present health care industry is to maximize profits. Employees, who deny people health care get a bonus, because denial of a claim saves the company money. I can not agree with such a system.
Let’s call universal health care “Christianized” medicine, because that‘s what Jesus would want us to do.
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