The news item used the word, "esteemed," when referring to Ben Carson, M.D. And it was an article on the Huffington Post yet.Ben Carson is a neurosurgeon. He's "retired" now but reportedly was an "excellent" neurosurgeon. I have no reason to doubt that characterization. However, as we have long known, medical doctors can be great at their jobs and know very little about anything else. In fact, they can be really stupid about the real world!
[Consider the crackpot MD, Paul Broun (R-Ga), who said just recently and knowingly, "I'm a medical doctor" and Obamacare will "destroy everything we know." Of course it will. Healthcare always destroys "everything we know." Everyone knows that!
Broun also told a church group that everything he had been taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang theory were "all lies straight from the pit of hell" and were intended to "keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding they need a savior." (Broun "sits on a key congressional science advisory committee.") And you wonder why our Congress is so screwed up!]
Back to Dr. Carson. At the 2013 Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. (can you imagine a group less concerned with "values" that the people involved in this summit who would rather see people lose their jobs and starve and even die in the case of a pregnant woman who needed an abortion than provide them health care, or believe that gays and lesbians should be killed because the Bible says so, than the right-wing nutcases huddled together in this so-called "summit" ?), Carson said this:
"You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control."
In April of 2013, Carson also said that white liberals are "the most racist people there are."
It should also be noted that this "esteemed" doctor, in an appearance on FAUX News on March 26, "compared the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to bestiality and pedophilia."
Carson is a fundamentalist Christian. Actually, his religion is even further off the wall than that; he belongs to the strange sect called Seventh-Day Adventism. In this sect, the Bible is taken literally. (Not really, they pick and choose like everyone else). They worship on Saturday because God said to do that. The leadership of the Adventists has, on several occasions, announced the end of the world. But, darn, it didn't happen and all those good Adventists who sold their stuff and went to stand on a hill to wait for their "savior" were left in the lurch and had to start over. But most of them just went on believing!
Now Carson may be a good neurosurgeon. But he should not be "esteemed." For one thing he was recently put on the payroll of FAUX News as a "contributor." That's enough to disqualify the "esteemed" label.
Secondly, he's a liar. Obamacare is all about health care! It's about providing health care to millions of people in this country who have not been able to obtain insurance as well as leveling the playing field for millions of other people. It's about stopping insurance companies from not insuring people with pre-existing conditions.
It's not perfect, but it sure as hell is NOT the "worst thing that's happened in this nation since slavery." What idiot would make a statement like that? Carson is not unintelligent, obviously, so we must assume that he knows that statement is blatantly false! There must be other factors at work here. And I know no "white liberals" that are racist.
Carson may claim to be a Christian, but these comments disqualify him from that label, too, assuming that Christians wish to emulate the Jesus of the New Testament. One cannot tell horrendous falsehoods about the president of the United States and millions of other people who care deeply for this country and still be acclaimed as "esteemed." Nor can such a person claim the name of Jesus.
Carson has befouled his Christ and has joined the troop of people who passed by the beggar at the gate. And you remember what Jesus had to say about their fate!
2 comments:
It is difficult for some people to understand the statements made by some religious people. Obviously there is a wide range of interpretations and beliefs. Many of the claims are based on no known facts or reporting by contemporary witnesses to events reported in the various bibles. Linguistic problems, failings of memory, omissions, self interest of those reporting, etc all play in what to accept and what to question. As far as we know, few if any, have ever received an actual document, recording, picture, etc from any God. The decision to accept a belief is strictly up to the individual. Some will accept all and some will accept little or even none. Faith is individual and subjective. It is real to the believer. The non believer also has choices as to personal acceptance.
Some of the statements expressed below are out of the realm of belief for me but others might feel different. When we consider the vast numbers of religions in the world, that leaves us all a lot of choices.
Well, you already know how I feel about religion and the so called Christian leaders, so I won't take up space!! I do love those signs on the right!!! Have a fun weekend!
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