Here's What We Will Get

Mark Steyn has a very good piece about Obama Care. What he describes is not a pretty picture, but we all sense it is the truth - we just don't want to admit it. Here is a snippet from Steyn's article:

I think of a young man called Gerald Augustin of Rivière-des-Prairies, Québec, who went to the St. André medical clinic complaining of stomach pain. He’d forgotten to bring his government medical card, so they turned him away. He was a Quebecker born and bred, and he was in their computer. But no card, no service: that’s just the way it is. So he went back home to get it, collapsed of acute appendicitis, and by the time the ambulance arrived he was dead. He was 21 years old, and he didn’t make it to 22 because he accepted the right of a government bureaucrat to refuse him medical treatment for which he and his family have been confiscatorily taxed all their lives. “I don’t see what we did wrong,” said the administrator. “We just followed the rules.” No big deal, M Augustin wasn’t anything special; no one in her clinic even remembered giving him the brush.

Here's the link for the article. HT to Doug Groothuis

Intellectual Sobriety

This morning I was relistening to one of my teachers, Doug Groothuis, professor of philosophy at Denver Seminary when I heard him say, "...intellectual sloth and intellectual sobriety."

I thought what a potent phrase that is. Often when I talk to people about Christ or Christianity I hear them say things, which have made me wonder if they were sober. Leave it to the teacher to express the idea so succinctly. I guess that's why we have teachers, isn't it?

Doug says this about 41 minutes into this video in the Q & A portion. The entire video, along with the video for Part 1, is well worth the time it will cost to watch. I recommend it to anyone who might read this.

Groothuis Articles

Doug Groothuis at Denver Seminary has a link with some of his articles. This is a great resource for those interested.

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