A local doctor runs a low-cost health clinic for people without insurance.
Christians Should Be Doing More Stuff Like This
10 responses to “Christians Should Be Doing More Stuff Like This”
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“Health care really has always been the purview of the church,” he said. “During epidemics, Christians would stay and care for the sick. Everyone else would leave.”
Exactly.
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I agree, and I would add, ‘caring for mentally ill people’. Not just physically ‘caring’, but providing community centres and stuff. Many mentally ill people are not lying on the floor drooling. They are sitting at home lonely. A very high proportion of people who end up homeless are mentally ill
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I sometimes wish I were rich so I could give a whole lot of money to efforts like these (both the one in the article and the suggestion about mentally ill people). There are in fact Christian groups that do that–here’s a local one.
Re the guy’s remark about Christians staying during the epidemics: that struck me because he’s presumably a Protestant, and he’s probably including the whole history of Christianity in that. I hope he is, and is aware of the roots of health care in medieval institutions. -
I mean, it’s not free (that local addiction treatment center) but they say they don’t turn people away for inability to pay.
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I don’t see how you can look at the names of hospitals in the US without seeing how many had Catholic roots. I would imagine that religious sisters played a roll in founding most of them.
Around here, it was the sisters who stayed during the Yellow Fever epidemic.
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Years ago I read a historical novel, can’t remember the name, about a priest who stayed in Memphis during a YF epidemic. There could be similar stories here, as this was a big YF town too.
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There’s a nice little museum in an old chapel in Holly Springs that’s a memorial to the sisters who died working there. I think the property belongs to the Episcopal Church now, but it was used for Mass when the Sacred Heart priests first came to Mississippi. Now they have a really ugly newish church.
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You know, Memphis used to have a carnival for Mardi Gras before the YF epidemic. Later, when they decided to reestablish the carnival, they thought it would be better to celebrate Cotton rather than relate it to the Christian calendar. One wonders why they call it carnival.
AMDG -
Cotton doesn’t have any meat in it.:-)
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Unless you’re a boll weevil.
AMDG
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