The grace of wrong answers marked with the red pen, April 7, 2025.

Let's talk about socialism in the light of the last judgment. Some of the following was churned up in my mind through discussion with Joe Regney last week. See below.

As I've remarked before, quoting Woodhouse, some minds are like the soup in a bad restaurant, better left unstirred.

Another thing that provided grist for the mill, my argument here, or as it may be, grist for my gist,

here is a clip of Stephen Wolfe arguing that while he doesn't want universal health care here in America,

he doesn't see any problem with it in principle if some Scandinavian country wants to do it.

By way of contrast, I say a huge problem with it in principle, and by that I mean biblical principle.

The central biblical principle first.

Let us begin by setting aside those issues where there would be universal

agreement among faithful Christians on issues like same-sex marriage or the child sacrifices of

the abortionists. To differ with what scripture teaches on such subjects would be to identify

yourself as being unfaithful. These would be issues where people simply want to disobey what

the Bible expressly teaches,

like when the Israelites in Egypt tell Jeremiah they're not going to listen to him.

But what about something like universal health care?

The issue should not be whether or not there are circumstances when the government can perform this or that activity.

Suppose we take the issue of tax-supported health care or a tax-supported day school.

I can easily envision situations where such a thing considered in itself could be just fine.

Suppose a municipal authority scooped up a homeless bum in order to put him on a bus to Portland in the morning.

While in custody, he has a medical incident and is taken to the ER and the city picks up the tab.

That would be tax-supported health care, would it not? I, for one, would be okay with that.

That kind of thing could happen in a liberty-loving society, sure. The problem has to do with size and

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