Leftism understood as secularised protestantism is an extension of religious ideas into politics. This is something that will always proceed badly probably even if the religious ideas were true. Even if the light of god dwells within everyone you'd still....
True, religious ideas enter around those issues but the core of healthcare is just the alleviation of pain and dysfunction, I wouldn't see that as having a theological edge
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Let me try to rephrase my point. Our physical perceptions, even including pain and dysfunction, are subservient to our religious beliefs.
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Pain and dysfunction are extremely variable. When you have children, your will quickly notice that the degree of pain am injury inflicts is based more on surprise than on actual damage.
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Pain threshholds are psychologically variable but if you're ill you're ill, think we're hitting a deep difference in perspectives here
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Yes, which means we've reached the area of our faith. I cannot convince you from here, although you might be converted.
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Does established medical understanding recognise the relationship of faith to health that you're suggesting? I think it's closer to what I'm saying
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Of course they don't, they're men and women of science!
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Well I suppose when I was arguing for the separation of religion and politics we already saw it as being separate from science, maybe I was assuming there then
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Can't separate religion and politics from science, either, sadly.
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