The latest bill on healthcare is two-thousand pages.
Two-thousand pages.
Two.
Thousand.
Pages.
I have right now in my hand a copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The first declares the reasons for why we separated from Great Britain, and the second provides the framework for how the federal government would relate to the people. Do you know how many pages both of these documents are? Twenty seven.
Twenty seven!
See this Bible here?
That's my favorite Bible. It's The Apologetics Study Bible. It doesn't mean to apologize for the Bible and to banish it from society like many liberals would like for me to do. Apologetics comes from the Greek word apologia, which means to present a defense. When you give your apologia you are giving your reasons for your faith. Why do I believe in Christianity? Why, I believe in it for reasons X, Y, and Z.
This Bible contains over 130 articles on every topic you can think of and how it relates to Christianity. Everything from the existence of God, to a Biblical view of human sexuality, to the basics of the laws of logic. In addition to that it has responses to cults twisting the meaning of Scripture, biographies on major Christian apologists, charts, graphs, maps, commentary, room to take notes, and everything else you can think of. Oh, and that's not including the Bible itself. You know, the sixty-six books through which God decided to tell man everything that he needed to know about life, the universe, and everything.
Do you know how many pages it is?
Two-thousand pages!
It's taken Nancy Pelosi the same amount of space to formulate something about healthcare that it's taken God and every major living Christian apologist to reveal the origin, meaning, morality, and destiny of every human that has ever lived.
Well... I guess that's not fair. Those Bibles do have really tiny print. So I'll double it to four-thousand pages. Now it has only taken Pelosi half as long as God and just over 70 times longer than the founders.
Alright, so that's the first half of the blog title, what about the second? Long books aren't tyranny after all.
What does liberty mean? I think a fair definition is a state of affairs where I get to make decisions for my own well-being. That would mean tyranny would be the opposite--someone else makes the decisions for my own well-being without my personal consent.
However, we live in a democracy and I don't get to always have my way. The will of the people gets the go ahead through those who represent us. But I still get a platform to make my personal case (my apologia if you will) and elect individuals who will look out for my interests and listen to what I have to say.
I think we would all agree that to make a respectable case for something you would have to understand the issue at hand. If I want to make a case for Christianity against position X then it would only be fair that I understand both Christianity and position X to fairly represent my opposition.
This is what I wanted to do when all this healthcare business got underway. I wanted to sit down and read it for myself. I heard one side screaming about death panels or something and the opposition demanded that they quit lying about the panels of death. "Well, forget about the he said, she said," I thought, "let's get to the heart of the matter."
So I sat down at my computer, downloaded the document, and began to read it. That's when my brain said, "why, why do you hate me so?" I couldn't understand a damn word of it. Not only that, but it referenced a hundred other documents that didn't make any sense at all. Against the cries of agony emanating from my brain I pushed onward, but then my computer gave out and told me there was no way in hell it could run all these PDF files at once and demanded I go back to watching Charlie the Unicorn on YouTube. Not only would it be easier on my computer, but my brain could actually comprehend it as well.
Seriously, sit down and try to read the healthcare bill. I'm not a genius, nor am I an idiot, but I believe my reading comprehension skills are on par with the average American. I cannot deduce anything about the bill besides maybe that Nancy Pelosi promises that she loves me and wants to be my second mother.
Have you read the documents that founded this nation? You might need to reference a dictionary from the time, but it's nothing that a normal person can't understand.
And you know, if the average American cannot understand it, then it's not written for the people--it's written for a group of dictators who want to push something down your throat without you being able to voice your opinion on it.
And that, my friends, is tyranny. Two-thousand pages of it.
I do not care if you are for socialized healthcare or not, it's something we all need to be concerned about. If you want homosexuality to be recognized by the government, if you want abortion to be allowed without restriction, if you want to be able to legally fling poo at Christians, then you go about doing it through the will of the people. What you do not do is try to shove your power trips through the system and overthrow our republic.
Two-thousand pages.
Two.
Thousand.
Pages.
I have right now in my hand a copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The first declares the reasons for why we separated from Great Britain, and the second provides the framework for how the federal government would relate to the people. Do you know how many pages both of these documents are? Twenty seven.
Twenty seven!
See this Bible here?
That's my favorite Bible. It's The Apologetics Study Bible. It doesn't mean to apologize for the Bible and to banish it from society like many liberals would like for me to do. Apologetics comes from the Greek word apologia, which means to present a defense. When you give your apologia you are giving your reasons for your faith. Why do I believe in Christianity? Why, I believe in it for reasons X, Y, and Z.
This Bible contains over 130 articles on every topic you can think of and how it relates to Christianity. Everything from the existence of God, to a Biblical view of human sexuality, to the basics of the laws of logic. In addition to that it has responses to cults twisting the meaning of Scripture, biographies on major Christian apologists, charts, graphs, maps, commentary, room to take notes, and everything else you can think of. Oh, and that's not including the Bible itself. You know, the sixty-six books through which God decided to tell man everything that he needed to know about life, the universe, and everything.
Do you know how many pages it is?
Two-thousand pages!
It's taken Nancy Pelosi the same amount of space to formulate something about healthcare that it's taken God and every major living Christian apologist to reveal the origin, meaning, morality, and destiny of every human that has ever lived.
Well... I guess that's not fair. Those Bibles do have really tiny print. So I'll double it to four-thousand pages. Now it has only taken Pelosi half as long as God and just over 70 times longer than the founders.
Alright, so that's the first half of the blog title, what about the second? Long books aren't tyranny after all.
What does liberty mean? I think a fair definition is a state of affairs where I get to make decisions for my own well-being. That would mean tyranny would be the opposite--someone else makes the decisions for my own well-being without my personal consent.
However, we live in a democracy and I don't get to always have my way. The will of the people gets the go ahead through those who represent us. But I still get a platform to make my personal case (my apologia if you will) and elect individuals who will look out for my interests and listen to what I have to say.
I think we would all agree that to make a respectable case for something you would have to understand the issue at hand. If I want to make a case for Christianity against position X then it would only be fair that I understand both Christianity and position X to fairly represent my opposition.
This is what I wanted to do when all this healthcare business got underway. I wanted to sit down and read it for myself. I heard one side screaming about death panels or something and the opposition demanded that they quit lying about the panels of death. "Well, forget about the he said, she said," I thought, "let's get to the heart of the matter."
So I sat down at my computer, downloaded the document, and began to read it. That's when my brain said, "why, why do you hate me so?" I couldn't understand a damn word of it. Not only that, but it referenced a hundred other documents that didn't make any sense at all. Against the cries of agony emanating from my brain I pushed onward, but then my computer gave out and told me there was no way in hell it could run all these PDF files at once and demanded I go back to watching Charlie the Unicorn on YouTube. Not only would it be easier on my computer, but my brain could actually comprehend it as well.
Seriously, sit down and try to read the healthcare bill. I'm not a genius, nor am I an idiot, but I believe my reading comprehension skills are on par with the average American. I cannot deduce anything about the bill besides maybe that Nancy Pelosi promises that she loves me and wants to be my second mother.
Have you read the documents that founded this nation? You might need to reference a dictionary from the time, but it's nothing that a normal person can't understand.
And you know, if the average American cannot understand it, then it's not written for the people--it's written for a group of dictators who want to push something down your throat without you being able to voice your opinion on it.
And that, my friends, is tyranny. Two-thousand pages of it.
I do not care if you are for socialized healthcare or not, it's something we all need to be concerned about. If you want homosexuality to be recognized by the government, if you want abortion to be allowed without restriction, if you want to be able to legally fling poo at Christians, then you go about doing it through the will of the people. What you do not do is try to shove your power trips through the system and overthrow our republic.
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