{"id":74075,"date":"2026-04-24T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=74075"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:52:23","slug":"lbcf-why-doctors-hate-healthy-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2026\/04\/24\/lbcf-why-doctors-hate-healthy-people\/","title":{"rendered":"LBCF: Why doctors hate healthy people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

(On Fridays I re-run the old Left Behind series. This week\u2019s \u201cclassic\u201d was originally posted in April, 2007.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Left Behind,<\/i> pp. 265-268<\/b><\/p>\n

Have you seen that bit with the offering plate? They pass this thing around in church and people fill it up with money. Clearly, that\u2019s what this whole \u201cchurch\u201d thing is really about. Money. All those priests, pastors, ministers, chaplains, friars, missionaries, etc. \u2014 they\u2019re all just in it for the money.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one theory, anyway, albeit a ridiculous one I\u2019ve never heard anyone seriously advocating. But I\u2019ve heard theories like it. Such theories always tell you much more about the theorists themselves than about the supposed subject of their theories.<\/p>\n

If some hypothetical anti-clerical zealot were actually to make the argument above, you would have to conclude one of the following things about them:<\/p>\n

1. <\/b>They might be attacking a straw m\"\"<\/a>an they know to be false. Unable or unwilling to engage the reality of what churches actually are, they\u2019ve decided instead to sketch a ridiculous caricatured version and then attack their own creation as though it were the thing itself. The anti-church critic, in other words, might be a dishonest hack.<\/p>\n

2. <\/b>They might not know any better. Perhaps, somehow, they\u2019ve never encountered anyone who worked at or even attended a church, and so they have no idea what churches actually do or how or why they do it. In other words, the critic might be well-intentioned but massively ignorant. (At some point, of course, such utter ignorance can only be maintained willfully \u2014 thus ceasing to be well-intentioned.)<\/p>\n

3. <\/b>They might think this is how everything<\/i> works. They may subscribe to some materialistic grand scheme or ideology (Marxism or laissez-faire<\/i> anarcho-libertarianism perhaps). or they may be, themselves, primarily driven by this kind of motivation, so they just assume that no one else has any other motive either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

None of these options paints a very favorable picture of our hypothetical critic, but then it would be difficult to imagine any way of favorably viewing anyone who would seriously put forward such a stupid argument.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to today\u2019s section in Left Behind,<\/i> wherein we encounter something very similar to the hypothetical critique above. This is a dazzlingly awful passage, almost Bushian in its ability to combine pedantic smugness with a near-total misapprehension of reality. It\u2019s a bit like the song \u201cLittle Known Facts\u201d in You\u2019re a Good Man Charlie Brown<\/i>\u2014 with LaHaye and Jenkins in the role of Lucy, taking the readers by the hand and, with grating condescension, explaining how snow comes up \u201cout of the ground \u2014 like grass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rayford drives to the church to pick up a replacement copy of the In Case Of Rapture video. Chloe tags along because she\u2019s afraid to be home alone in case the robbers come back for the rest of Raymie\u2019s toys.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Bruce Barnes is saddened, but not surprised by the news of the break-in. \u201cIt\u2019s as if the inner-city has moved to the suburbs,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

You know, the \u201cinner-city\u201d \u2014 nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Not that that\u2019s a code word or anything. Not at all. And the New Jerusalem will be a glorious suburb.<\/i><\/p>\n

Rayford leaves the church and becomes a whirlwind of activity:<\/p>\n

While they were out, Rayford bought items that needed to be replaced right away, including a TV and VCR. He arranged to have the front door fixed and got the insurance paperwork started.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because the insurance companies, like the police, aren\u2019t busy with anything else. While Rayford attends to all of this, Chloe apparently goes back into the state of suspended animation in which she seems to spend all of her time apart from her father. (Again, she has no job and she\u2019s not in school \u2014 what is she doing<\/i> all day? She\u2019s like Carol Brady.)<\/p>\n

And then, inevitably, the phone rings. It\u2019s Hattie. Rayford tells her about the robbery, and Hattie provides the awkward segue into the heart of this section of the book:<\/p>\n

\u201cThings are getting so strange,\u201d she said. \u201cYou know I have a sister who works in a pregnancy clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUh-huh,\u201d Rayford said. \u201cYou\u2019ve mentioned it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do family planning and counseling and referrals for terminating pregnancies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they\u2019re set up to do abortions right there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hattie seemed to be waiting for some signal of affirmation or acknowledgment that he was listening. Rayford grew impatient and remained silent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hattie apparently listened politely while Rayford told his<\/i> story, but that was different because it was his<\/i> story. Hattie mistakenly thinks she\u2019s due the same courtesy. Her misunderstanding is all part of that wacky battle of the sexes \u2014 it\u2019s just like that book, Women Are From Venus, Men Are From the Planet of Impatient, Misogynist Jackasses.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cAnyway,\u201d she said, \u201cI won\u2019t keep you. But my sister told me they have zero business.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, that would make sense, given the disappearances of unborn babies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sister didn\u2019t sound too happy about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHattie, I imagine everyone\u2019s horrified by that. Parents are grieving all over the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There, at last, is the sentence we should have been reading over and over again for the last 250 pages: \u201cParents are grieving all over the world.\u201d Every child on the planet disappeared on page 15 of this book and here, on page 266, is the very first mention of Rachel crying for her children.<\/p>\n

Oddly though, Rayford\u2019s comment doesn\u2019t seem to refer to all<\/em> parents \u2014 only to those of \u201cunborn babies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the women my sister and her people were counseling wanted<\/i> abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rayford groped for a pertinent response. \u201cYes, so maybe those women are grateful they didn\u2019t have to go through the abortion itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe, but my sister and her bosses and the rest of the staff are out of work now until people start getting pregnant again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can see where they\u2019re trying to go here, but what on earth is she talking about?<\/p>\n

Hattie\u2019s sister works in reproductive health, at a pregnancy clinic. Last Monday, every child on earth disappeared and every pregnant woman on the planet became instantaneously unpregnant. This development raises some rather urgent questions about, you know, the future of the human race.<\/i> The idea that Hattie\u2019s sister and her coworkers would be sitting around idle is inconceivable \u2014 conceivability being the key word here. All of those formerly pregnant women are going to need medical examinations to confirm that the Divine Abortionist didn\u2019t create complications. The still unresolved question of future fertility \u2014 for those women, for all<\/i> women and for all men too \u2014 would need to be explored.<\/p>\n

Hattie\u2019s sister wouldn\u2019t be out of work, she\u2019d be working 18-hour shifts.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 my sister and her bosses and the rest of the staff are out of work now until people start getting pregnant again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI get it. It\u2019s a money thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have to work. They have expenses and families.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd aside from abortion counseling and abortions, they have nothing to do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing. Isn\u2019t that awful? I mean, whatever happened put my sister and a lot of people like her out of business, and nobody really knows yet whether anyone will be able to get pregnant again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am not up to the task here. I cannot begin to catalog all that is wrong with this bizarre straw-man. Do L&J really think that places like Planned Parenthood \u201chave nothing to do\u201d apart from \u201cabortion counseling and abortions\u201d?<\/p>\n

But buckle up, it gets worse, with Rayford rolling his eyes and silently mocking Hattie all along:<\/p>\n

Rayford had to admit he had never found Hattie guilty of brilliance, but now he wished he could look into her eyes. \u201cHattie, um, I don\u2019t know how to ask this. But are you saying your sister is hoping women can get pregnant again so they\u2019ll need abortions and she can keep working?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, sure. What is she going to do otherwise? Counseling jobs in other fields are pretty hard to come by, you know.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait, didn\u2019t we just say that parents are grieving all over the world? I\u2019m thinking the grief counseling centers might be hiring. Then again, those grief counselors are a bunch of evil bastards. It\u2019s a money thing. They want<\/i> there to be more grief just so they can keep working.<\/p>\n

The good news, at least, is that those sick monsters running the orphanage industry are out of work too, so maybe now they\u2019ll finally stop going around killing parents just so they have work to do.<\/p>\n

He nodded, feeling stupid, knowing she couldn\u2019t see him. What kind of lunacy was this? He shouldn\u2019t waste his energy arguing with someone who clearly didn\u2019t have a clue, but he couldn\u2019t help himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess I always thought clinics like the one where your sister works considered these unwanted pregnancies a nuisance. Shouldn\u2019t they be glad if such problems disappear, and even happier \u2014 except for the small complication that the human race will eventually cease to exist \u2014 if pregnancies never happen again?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Silly Hattie. Silly, foolish, female Hattie just doesn\u2019t have a clue. She doesn\u2019t realize that the ultimate goal of abortion rights advocates is universal forced sterilization. After all, what else<\/i> could \u201cpro-choice\u201d possibly mean?<\/p>\n

The irony was lost on her. \u201cBut Rayford, that\u2019s her job. That\u2019s what the center is all about. It\u2019s sort of like owning a gas station and nobody needs gas or oil or tires anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSupply and demand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cExactly! See? They need unwanted pregnancies because that\u2019s their business.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSort of like doctors wanting people to be sick or injured so they have something to do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow you\u2019ve got it, Rayford.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 I \u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

I give up. If the authors can\u2019t be bothered to forge a trail through the twists and turns of their logic here, then I can\u2019t be expected to map it out it for them.<\/p>\n

Just go back to the beginning of this post and re-read my hypothetical critique of the church. It is, as I said, massively and pervasively inaccurate \u2014 a dismissive straw man that corresponds to nothing in the actual world. Re-read the possible reasons someone might advocate such a theory: intentional dishonesty, ignorance, ideological myopia, projection. (Am I missing something? Are there other possible explanations?)<\/p>\n

So, then, two questions: 1) Which of these do you think explains this passage in Left Behind?<\/i> And 2) Does it really matter?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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