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Over-Medicated Americans and Our Health Care System
What Does the Bible Say About Health Care and Healing?
by Pastor Paul J. Bern
I have seen articles and postings on alternative media that magnify the fact that we are currently stuck with a for-profit health care system that has a vested interest in keeping us sick. There are even stories of cures being found for various types of cancer, but they are being withheld from the world, ostensibly because that would be too many other people to feed and look after once they’re cured. Evidently this is far too cost-intensive for the ultra-rich elites, the top one percent who want everything all to themselves regardless of the cost to others. These people simply have to be stopped. We can’t stop them at the ballot box because we’ve already tried that with Donald Trump. Some far more decisive means will have to be employed, such as a massive wave of nonviolent resistance unleashed in the spirit of Rev. Dr. MLK, Jr.
We Call Them ‘Hypocrites’
Now let’s contrast this with what they Bible says about healing and taking care of one another. Jesus raised a widow’s son from the dead in Luke chapter 7, cured a man of leprosy and healed two demon-possessed men in Matthew chapter 8, restored the sight of two blind men in Matthew chapter 20, healed a deaf and mute…
