Newspeak On The Word “Compassion”

“After being criticized over illegal immigrants getting health care, the president said, “It is very important that we have compassion as part of our national character.”

Wall Street Journal Article
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575521901674416306.html

1.) Compassion, in the way that it is being used here, is not infinite. The compassion that B. Hussein Obama wants to give to illegal immigrants in the way of “free” health care will be, to those who are being taxed to fund this compassion, a certain meanness, coldness and hardness. Compassion given to illegal immigrants in the way of “free” health care means a lack of compassion to American citizens in the way of lost employment opportunities, lost wages, and lost quality health care. Compassion given to illegal immigrants in the way of creating a government large enough to administer “free” health care means a concerted meanness, coldness, and hardness towards the private sector as it is constricted in order that the public sector (i.e. — Government) may expand. Compassion given to illegal immigrants in the way of “free” health care means a lack of compassion to American citizens in the way of death panels and restricted access to quality health care.

There is a great deal of talk about compassion on this subject. The theme of compassion was all the rage at the CRC synod I attended but it is the compassion of the muddleheaded who refuse to think through the coldness, hardness, and meanness that eventuates with the embrace of their addlepated compassion.

2.) Compassionate national character is expressed by citizens voluntarily giving their monies to help those who can not help themselves. Compassionate national character is not expressed by the Nation State’s centralized government being compassionate with money that must be stolen through confiscatory taxation in order for it to be compassionate.

3.) There is nothing compassionate in our character when our Government sets up death panels for our seniors and for the infirm in order that illegal immigrants might receive “free” health care. There is nothing compassionate in our character when we allow the Federal Government to create within the citizenry a dependence disposition where they learn to look to the Centralized state to meet all their needs. There is nothing compassionate in our national character when we provide for the alien and stranger while impoverishing our own citizenry.

If we pursue the compassionate national character that B. Hussein Obama desires we will become a people who are cold, hard and thoroughly mean.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane