Someone sent this quote from this article to me:
"Mr Bush says expanding
public funding goes against the principles of private health care, and that
subsidising it creates a disincentive for people to buy private care
themselves."
And I thought of the way many political leaders in certain cultures, American being one, who try to align themselves with religion to make people feel like they can vote for some kind of God-ordained human being who will make everything right.
And this quote comes to mind when thinking of all the huffing and puffing about bringing justice to the world:
And that
wasn't the end of it. There are always those who take it upon
themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining
frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk
by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by
children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think,
"Business as usual." But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a
different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they
sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing.
Their resolve is frightening.
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must
be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at
themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been
let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the
public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot
of of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their
defence, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
