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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
-Barbara Kingsolver
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I Could Never Work Out Whether We

Barbara Kingsolver
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. i can understand a wrathful god who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. and i can understand a tender, unprejudiced jesus. but i could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. you wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.
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Right now in the insurance markets, we have sort of a disaster unfolding, a downward spiral, adverse selection, premiums in the individual market going through the roof. people can't afford insurance and insurance companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars. if you repeal part of obamacare to get rid of the individual mandate but keep some of the ideas, that people can still buy insurance after they're sick, the situation gets extraordinarily worse. and so what we're seeing now could be tenfold greater if you only repeal part of obamacare.
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