{"id":899,"date":"2007-08-01T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=899"},"modified":"2007-08-01T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T20:33:00","slug":"from-biblegateway-com-the-sheep-and-the-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"From BibleGateway.com: The Sheep and The Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=47&amp;chapter=25&amp;version=31\">BibleGateway.com: From Matthew Chapter 25, The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;41&#8217;Then he will say to those on his left, &#8216;Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.&#8217;<br \/>44&#8217;They also will answer, &#8216;Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?&#8217;<br \/>45&#8217;He will reply, &#8216;I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.&#8217;<br \/>46&#8217;Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>How bad can single payer be that Christians can walk away from this lesson so blithely? What evil in a government sponsored single payer system is so compelling to ignore these charges of Jesus? What principles have been teased and tortured out of Christianity to trump this parable so central to Christ&#8217;s call for us to take care of each other?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BibleGateway.com: From Matthew Chapter 25, The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats.: &#8220;41&#8217;Then he will say to those on his left, &#8216;Depart from me, you who are cursed, into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From BibleGateway.com: The Sheep and The Goats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral-arguments","category-social-justice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}