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futzinfarb commented on the blog post There’s A Hole In Daddy’s Head Where All The Money Goes
I have long maintained that this particular type of “God … has blessed me and my family with His merciful care” Christian conceit of Stone’s is not run-of-the-mill, just-avert-your-eyes-for-a-moment, play-along-to-get-along-with-the-Christian foolish jerkishness. It is, in fact an insidious and destructive conceit.
For if you accept it, if you let it pass without pointing out its utter fallacy, you are intrinsically accepting and approving its corollary, that the kid down the street who died of the infections from his abscessed teeth, ah, that also was God’s will, not the fact that his family couldn’t afford dental care on minimum wage jobs, not because you screamed bloody murder about socialism at the town hall meetings with your congressman.
You are accepting the magic pony model of medicine that God will simply provide for those he chooses to bless with His merciful care – so there is no need for government to regulate health insurers, no need to provide adequate schools and colleges for future physicians, no need for the NIH to fund research in treating MRSA, no need for taxes to support the local hospital district, no reason for the nurses to be allowed to unionize, and so on and so on. For those reasons it really is necessary to argue forcefully that these childish tenets of Christians are lesser, are demonstrably and empirically lesser than the reality of 21st century medical science and technology.
