More Sojourners Deceit

I received an email with an attached petition that I am supposed to sign demanding “healthcare reform.”  However, this is not just any petition; no, this is a “Christian Creed” on reform.  Yes, by including those magic words, support for socialist care now falls into the category of a “creed” like the Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed, and other historical documents.  There are some real goodies in this one, including:

I believe, as taught by the Hebrew prophets and Jesus, that the measure of a society is seen in how it treats the most vulnerable. The current discussion about health-care reform is important for the United States to move toward a more just system of providing care to all people (Isaiah 1:16-17, Jeremiah 7:5-7, Matthew 25:31-45).

The next one, however, is as Orwellian as these “Christian socialists” can get:

I believe that all people have a moral obligation to tell the truth. To serve the common good of our entire nation, all parties debating reform should tell the truth and refrain from distorting facts or using fear-based messaging (Leviticus 19:11; Ephesians 4:14-15, 25; Proverbs 6:16-19).

You see, if anyone points out the real problems that accompany socialist medical care, then one is engaging in “sin.”  That is because telling the truth is “sin,” but lying (in other words, presenting the Michael Moore lines from “Sicko”) is telling the truth.  I never have forgotten that Wallis gave his undying support to totalitarian movements in the 1960s and 1970s that imprisoned and murdered millions of people simply for their religious faith.  So, the Big Lies continue, but this time he tries to back them up with Scripture.

No, I won’t be sending this signed petition to anyone in Congress.