The Christian Science Religion may be an Important way to Avoid Slavery to the Health Insurance Industry

The following was in response to this article, one of the best of the late fall regarding the failure of the US Congress to reform health care in a truly lasting, beneficial way.

Wow, who would have thought that I would be googling "Religions that don't believe in health care," and then, when I got nothing from that, "Religions that do not believe in medicine." (Thank you, Google, for your search suggestions!)

It seems that the fairly large Christian Science Religion was probably the main one the Democrats had in their crazed and obsessed with getting something passed minds when they added in the religious exception clause to the health insurance mandate. It appears, and of course this will have to be verified later, that being a member of the Christian Science Religion will remove from oneself the burden of being a slave to the health insurance multimillionaire execs and the proposed slavery enforcement bureaucracy.

Anyone who has been going without health insurance and who knows or even just strongly suspects that it would do more harm economically than good health wise to be forced to get it now, that in other words it would do more harm than good overall, should consider joining this Religion. Because by default having to heal naturally for some number of years, those who have gone without health insurance have been, probably unbeknownst to them, following a set of very major tenets of this religion: that mankind is more spiritual than physical, and that healing is much more spiritual than physical, and all those who have spiritual health will be physically healed, subject to God's will.

(Jeez, I hope I didn't screw up my description of the Christian Scientists; I'm not exactly a veteran religious reporter, laugh out loud.) Here is where to go for many more details:

For much more information about the Christian Science Religion, see this article.

Note that:

(a) The Christian Science Religion does not expressly forbid adherents from getting health care, though apparently few who are at all serious about their devotion to the Religion do so, except, I would expect, with respect to emergency situations such as car crashes and with respect to dire situations like tumours that could be terminal.

(b) According to the Wikipedia article, many Christian Scientists are not obsessive about overstating what is supposed to be avoided. Many of them do not consider such things as dental care and vision correction as things that need to be avoided. It’s the physician care and medicines that they are thinking are generally unnecessary, in a big majority of cases, and at least for the true Christian Scientist.

(c) This Religion will probably constitute by far the biggest and the most dependable one with respect to not having to comply with any "mandate" to buy private and grossly overpriced health insurance.

Never forget that under single payer and other community based national health systems where private profits and obscene salaires have been mostly or completely removed from the system, adults only in rare circumstances, and children only in certain life threatening circumstances, are required to get the (at the time of the care decision) effectively free health care. Health care liberty is preserved in those systems, unlike in the right wing US proposal.

There are people in those countries who have such strong beliefs against health care in general or medicine in particular that they never or almost never use their national health care system! It is, for example fairly well known by international economists that, although there are probably few British who never ever use their Health Service, that the British are much more reserved and hesitant to use health services than are people of other countries.

What this reminds you of is that you as an American have the perfect right to claim opposition to health treatments (regardless of what combination of motivations for doing so you may have, and expressly including being motivated by not wishing to pay unaffordable amounts to health insurance mega Corporations). Many Americans will now be more or less REQUIRED to somehow gain an exemption to the mandate in order to truly claim opposition to health treatments in the US. One can expect a surge in new converts to the Christian Science Religion over the next few years.

Now that I think of it, (while listening to roots reggae star Gyptian) I think the Rastafarians may qualify for an exemption too, assuming no racism in the selection of religions that will qualify for exemption, And actually, since I already know quite a bit about them and more or less agree with them, maybe I'll formally join the Rastafarians very soon.

Find out much more about the Rastafarian Religiion (or Movement) right here.

Who would have thought my love of reggae music might come in so handy some day. Redemption song indeed.