Thought for Thursday

Bishop John Shelby Spong writes in his column this week that we should 

"...examine the content of Christianity.  It is a radical movement!  In Christ, says St. Paul, all tribal identities fade away.  One can hardly be an uncritical super-patriot and be a Christian.  Christianity calls us to love our enemies.  That makes support for wars of aggression difficult.  Christianity calls us to deal with the poor in a sensitive manner even if it raises our taxes.  A member of Congress who opposes the current version of health care bill, which covers forty million previously uninsured Americans, has an obligation to offer a bill spelling out an alternative way to cover these uninsured.  Otherwise, honesty demands that there be a public admission that he or she does not really care about the issue of forty million people without health care because they cannot see beyond their own needs.  I mean by this to suggest that I believe political tactics can always be debated, but I do not see how Christians can fail to agree on the goal of universal health care coverage for all our citizens."