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Death panels, for instance. A White House death panel just declared that I do not deserve health insurance because I am a diabetic.<\/a><\/p>\n

And the best part is that I know for certain that Good Catholic and Evangelical court prophets will instantly step up to reassert the Bronze Age belief that illness is God\u2019s punishment for sin and that those with diabetes deserve to be punished with it for their sins of gluttony. I won\u2019t be terribly surprise to get some variation of \u201cTough luck, fatso\u201d in the comboxes (I\u2019ve gotten it before).<\/p>\n

\u201cProlife\u201d conservative Christians *love* to indulge in the argument that people with various lifestyle-related disease need to be punished with sickness and (if all goes well) death. I hear it constantly from the same people who, a couple of years ago, were warning darkly that the liberals were going to create death panels.<\/p>\n

Jesus said, \u201cHeal the sick\u201d to his disciples. But today\u2019s Christianist Trump lovers prefer to heap gloating and cruelty on the sick because their god is one of vengeance and mercilessness.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"