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Title: Army secretary nominee Mark Green: Public healthcare stops people from being saved by Christianity
Source: Washington Examiner
URL Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a ... y-christianity/article/2622180
Published: May 4, 2017
Author: Travis J. Tritten
Post Date: 2017-05-04 19:56:41 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 1409
Comments: 3

President Trump's pick for Army secretary once said government-assisted healthcare is an "injustice" because it hampers church-affiliated providers from converting people to Christianity.

Mark Green, a state senator in Tennessee, told a church group in 2015 that sickness is one of the main avenues that bring people to religion, but that citizens in the United States now instead rely on the government to help them, limiting the Christian church's role.

The comments shed more light on the conservative religious views that have brought Green, a physician and former Army flight surgeon, under fire from Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill and a growing segment of progressive advocacy groups in advance of his Senate confirmation hearings.

"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 creation of an entitlement welfare state," Green said. "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."

Green has also spoken out against gay marriage, transgender bathroom rights and the teaching of Islam in public schools, which are all potential lightning rods for controversy when it comes to being confirmed as the Army's top civilian leader.

His supporters say he is being targeted for his faith. A spokesman for Green did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.

But top Democrats have called his past statements "disgusting" as well as "extreme and deeply disturbing," and a variety of advocacy groups have urged the Senate to reject his nomination due to what they deem homophobia, transphobia and Islamophobia.

Green, who has often spoken about his devout Christian faith, told the crowd in 2015 that he hoped to personally set up free healthcare clinics at churches throughout Tennessee. Green is the CEO of a for-profit emergency department staffing company that operates in several states.

"I see our sort of government-based assistance taking God out of the picture," Green said. "If you look at the Gospels and you go and study the Gospels, every person who came to Christ came to Christ with a physical need. It was either hunger or a disease."

Some argue those in the Bible scripture who suffered from "demon possession and asking to have that demon cast out was a spiritual need," but even that was manifest as physical health issues, according to Green.

"People go to God because of a physical need and they walk away with a spiritual need met," he said.

Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said he was alarmed by the comments and that they were more proof that Green was unfit to be the Army secretary.

Green would likely view soldiers through the "prism of his religious views" and single out those who do not fit in with this faith, Weinstein said.

The military allowed gay troops to serve openly in 2011 and last year permitted service by transgender troops.


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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)

Mark Green, a state senator in Tennessee, told a church group in 2015 that sickness is one of the main avenues that bring people to religion, but that citizens in the United States now instead rely on the government to help them, limiting the Christian church's role.

The Christian Churches never had the ability to provide all of the necessary health care in their heyday, and they certainly do not now.

Health care is a problem for the nation at large, and not just for Christians. Christians alone should not be expected to shoulder the burden for the entire nation's health care, and even they are, they can't: they don't have the money.

No. This is a thing that, like defense, has to be undertaken by the government. Church charity can help, but it cannot replace the governmental provision. The government alone has the resources to do this.

Vicomte13  posted on  2017-05-04   20:00:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Willie Green (#0)

"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 creation of an entitlement welfare state," Green said. "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."

What a shame we came up with a polio vaccine and eradicated smallpox. Imagine all the souls that might be saved if Christian doctors could tell people they can just die of all these things if they're not Christians.

This guy sounds a little much. Trump really has better choices available in some of these jobs. I'm not sure why he is ending up with some of the nominees he's had. Or why it is taking so long to make the thousands of key appointments he needs to make. That isn't something that Congress is really holding him up with. It's on Trump, not Congress.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-05-04   21:42:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Willie Green (#0)

sorry to tell you this, dickheads are everywhere, even among christians.

The purpose of the Church is to bring people to faith, and to help, but it is the ministry of Jesus to heal. Healthcare is a natural outworking of Christian faith, you don't find it in Islam, or in Buddhism. Once only the Church was concerned with healthcare, but once governments perceived that a healthy population was desirable they took over in welfare and healthcare.

Many governments have a different expression of what they should do, from complete control of healthcare, to as little as possible however the church cannot be expected to assume the burden particularly of an increasingly secular population

paraclete  posted on  2017-05-05   1:44:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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