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GOP Senator Opposes Medicaid Expansion Because It Prevents People From Finding God

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GOP Senator Opposes Medicaid Expansion Because It Prevents People From Finding God

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 BY MICHAEL STONE

Radical religious extremist: GOP State Senator Mark Green of Tennessee opposes medicaid expansion because it prevents people from finding God.

Currently Green is running for congress in Tennessee, and his opponent, Democrat Justin Kanew, wants voters to know about Green’s radical Christian extremism. In a recent tweet Kanew points out that Green rejected billions in federal medicaid expansion funds because he believed the funding would lead people away from Jesus:

NEW VIDEO: My opponent Mark Green explains the radical religious views behind his decision to reject billions of our federal Medicaid expansion dollars – which caused many rural hospitals to close and 300,000 Tennesseans to go without health coverage, including 30,000 veterans.

In the video Green explains why he opposes medicaid expansion, declaring:

… every person who came to Christ came to Christ with a physical need… People go to God because of a physical need and they walk away with a spiritual need met. That’s the story of the Gospels. And so government has stepped in, at least in this country, and done all the work for the church. And so the person who’s in need — they look to the government for the answer. Not God. And I think, in that way, government has done an injustice that’s even bigger than just the entitlement — creation of an entitlement welfare state. I think it’s even bigger. And in this setting, I’ll share the story… I think it interrupts the opportunity for people to come to a saving knowledge of who God is..

That’s right, Green would deny people in his state medical care in the hope that they might find God instead. It is at once both despicable and deplorable.

But Green is a despicable and deplorable human being. In fact, his Christian extremism is so toxic that he was forced to withdraw his name from consideration after being nominated by Trump to be secretary of the Army.
In addition to wanting to deny people health care, Green also rejects established science in favor of religious superstition. Last year an audio tape was released of Green arguing against the theory of evolution and supporting creationism while delivering a lecture in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Green is controversial not only because he denies science in favor of religious superstition. Last year recordings were discovered of Green claiming government’s role is to “crush evil” by fighting against transgender equality. In addition, there is also video of Green claiming “transgender is a disease.”

Bottom line: GOP State Senator Mark Green is a dangerous Christian extremist who opposes medicaid expansion because it prevents people from finding God. In addition, Green rejects the theory of evolution and claims transgender people are evil and diseased.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/09/gop-senator-opposes-medicaid-expansion-because-it-prevents-people-from-finding-god/
 

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Mark Green is a Tennessee Senator, NOT a U.S. Senator from Tennessee.

He made the statement in 2015 and it is not breaking news that he made it.

He is an extremist.

I doubt that the Southern Baptist Convention completely agrees with him, and know very well that the United Methodist Church does not (the two largest denominations in Tennessee).

It says something to me that his opponent chose to send this as a tweet, rather then in a television ad.


Do not be surprised if he still wins, this is a very safe seat district.
 

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Mark Green is a Tennessee Senator, NOT a U.S. Senator from Tennessee.

He made the statement in 2015 and it is not breaking news that he made it.

He is an extremist.

I doubt that the Southern Baptist Convention completely agrees with him, and know very well that the United Methodist Church does not (the two largest denominations in Tennessee).

It says something to me that his opponent chose to send this as a tweet, rather then in a television ad.


Do not be surprised if he still wins, this is a very safe seat district.
I don't see any comment regarding his philosophy on this topic and denying his constituents access to more funds for healthcare. Just the typical dancing around to avoid saying something negative about a repuglican.
 

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I don't see any comment regarding his philosophy on this topic and denying his constituents access to more funds for healthcare. Just the typical dancing around to avoid saying something negative about a [Republican].
You don't?

Saying that he is an extremist and that I doubt that the Southern Baptist Convention completely agrees with him, and know very well that the United Methodist Church does not (the two largest denominations in Tennessee). Those aren't negative enough for you?
 

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GOP Senator Opposes Medicaid Expansion Because It Prevents People From Finding God

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 BY MICHAEL STONE

Radical religious extremist: GOP State Senator Mark Green of Tennessee opposes medicaid expansion because it prevents people from finding God.

Currently Green is running for congress in Tennessee, and his opponent, Democrat Justin Kanew, wants voters to know about Green’s radical Christian extremism. In a recent tweet Kanew points out that Green rejected billions in federal medicaid expansion funds because he believed the funding would lead people away from Jesus:

NEW VIDEO: My opponent Mark Green explains the radical religious views behind his decision to reject billions of our federal Medicaid expansion dollars – which caused many rural hospitals to close and 300,000 Tennesseans to go without health coverage, including 30,000 veterans.

In the video Green explains why he opposes medicaid expansion, declaring:

… every person who came to Christ came to Christ with a physical need… People go to God because of a physical need and they walk away with a spiritual need met. That’s the story of the Gospels. And so government has stepped in, at least in this country, and done all the work for the church. And so the person who’s in need — they look to the government for the answer. Not God. And I think, in that way, government has done an injustice that’s even bigger than just the entitlement — creation of an entitlement welfare state. I think it’s even bigger. And in this setting, I’ll share the story… I think it interrupts the opportunity for people to come to a saving knowledge of who God is..

That’s right, Green would deny people in his state medical care in the hope that they might find God instead. It is at once both despicable and deplorable.

But Green is a despicable and deplorable human being. In fact, his Christian extremism is so toxic that he was forced to withdraw his name from consideration after being nominated by Trump to be secretary of the Army.
In addition to wanting to deny people health care, Green also rejects established science in favor of religious superstition. Last year an audio tape was released of Green arguing against the theory of evolution and supporting creationism while delivering a lecture in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Green is controversial not only because he denies science in favor of religious superstition. Last year recordings were discovered of Green claiming government’s role is to “crush evil” by fighting against transgender equality. In addition, there is also video of Green claiming “transgender is a disease.”

Bottom line: GOP State Senator Mark Green is a dangerous Christian extremist who opposes medicaid expansion because it prevents people from finding God. In addition, Green rejects the theory of evolution and claims transgender people are evil and diseased.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/09/gop-senator-opposes-medicaid-expansion-because-it-prevents-people-from-finding-god/
He is taking a page out of Mother Theresa's cookbook. She withheld pain killers and treatment from her sick patients because suffering brings people closer to God. It is almost Catholic Dogma.
 

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Saying that he is an extremist and that I doubt that the Southern Baptist Convention completely agrees with him, and know very well that the United Methodist Church does not (the two largest denominations in Tennessee). Those aren't negative enough for you?
Only if I knew that you agree with the Methodist Church on all topics. And "I doubt that the Southern Baptist Convention completely agrees with him" is hardly a condemnation as it says nothing about your views.

You just keep dancing. Instead why don't you just say that you disagree with his actions in this matter and his lunatic reasoning.
 

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He is taking a page out of Mother Theresa's cookbook. She withheld pain killers and treatment from her sick patients because suffering brings people closer to God. It is almost Catholic Dogma.
Which taken at face value is horrific and wrong.

However, there is another perspective

As Mari Marcel Thekaekara has written:

"after the Bangladesh war, a few million refugees poured into Calcutta from our neighbour, former East Pakistan. Almost overnight, our streets and railway stations were filled with desperately poor people, sleeping on the streets, pitching makeshift tents of patched together plastic. Calcutta never recovered from that. . . .

No one had ever before done anything remotely like Mother Teresa's order, namely picking up destitute and dying people off the pavements and giving them a clean place to die in dignity. . . . . .I would be the first to admit that no one else did anything about the dying destitute people she rescued."

https://newint.org/blog/2016/09/14/criticism-of-mother-teresa

Likewise Navin B. Chawla points out that Mother Teresa never intended to build hospitals because she felt it would limit her order's outreach, but to provide a place where those who had been admission to hospitals "could at least die being comforted and with some dignity."

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/le...r-critics-choose-to-ignore/article5058894.ece



So should the basis of comparison not be between what was done and perfect, but rather between what the reality was absent what she did, and what her order did.
 

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Which taken at face value is horrific and wrong.
Stop right there. Notwithstanding the good things she did, she withheld pain killers and treatment from her sick patients because she believed suffering brings people closer to God.
 
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