so their partners in that industry and the goddamned insurance crooks can rob us blind while giving us Soviet style healthcare under capitalism
Here's a little video of a German who recently had to go to an American hospital only to find out he had to go to another American hospital, etc.
This reminds me of Ali Velshi whose father had to have major heart surgery in Canada under Canadian healthcare and the only cost to him was to park his car.
3 But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them.
2 In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery:
3 And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace.
4 And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality.
5 Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself.
6 As gold in the furnace he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them.
7 The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.
8 They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.
9 They that trust in him, shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love shall rest in him: for grace and peace is to his elect.
Wisdom 3:1-9 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
I haven't heard anyone read from the Douay-Rheims Bible since the 1960s when it was what they read the Gospel at mass from, I'd guess. Just thought I'd use it for this one, thinking about my grandparents and parents. I don't know if this would have been in the lectionary cycle back then, Vatican II greatly expanded the Old Testament readings in it.
I see this as an extension of All Saints Day because I believe in the eventual reconciliation of all beings with souls (animals), finding the arguments of the universalists more convincing than the infernalists. Though I think a lot of those who have gone on still have a long way to go. Don't we all.
Having had such a recent and still shocking death in the family has really colored this whole three-day triduum of the dead. I'm not much for the Day of the Dead thing as it currently is, too much like a commercialized American holiday for my taste, too colored by the infernalist nonsense kingdom of the devil and horror in the Americanized versions of it I've seen - an extension of infernalist-Hollywood Halloween more than anything to do with relligion. Maybe in some very small towns it might still be a family day that has some real meaning, just not in most places, now. Not in the US where everything is transaction and commerce. Nothing could be farther from the real purpose of the day.
