Christianity QA

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Every good Christian knows that we are our brother’s keeper.  When we have the resources, knowledge and technology needed to feed the starving kids of the world, but because of our greed and selfishness we ignore thier plight, we are murdering them.  We are all guilty of this sin of omission. Most Christians realize that fetuses are human beings and that it is wrong to murder them by what we euphamistically call abortion.  While many other people don’t have this understanding, there is no question but that the 24,000 kids that die every day from starvation in our world were as alive as any of us.  There is no debate as to their status as human beings. That is why it is so wrong for us to do virtually nothing while these thousands of kids suffer the agony of starvation.  Our churches have fought for years for the rights of the unborn, and because so many of us refuse to recognize fetuses as human beings, they have failed in their effort to save the lives of those children. Our churches, however, have had an equal opportunity to make the starving of children as national and important an issue as they have made abortion, but they have been sinfully silent on this issue.  Our chuches could easily publicize the deplorable fact that only 1/10th of 1% of our federal budget is used to feed starving children.  Our chuches could publicise the fact that for over twenty years our scientists and politicians have known that we have more than enough food, money, and knowledge to feed every child in our world. But our churches apparently don’t care enough about these kids to stand up to our government leaders and defend their right to food, and their right to life.   Perhaps our churches don’t care so much about these children because they are darkskinned, or asian.  Perhaps our churches don’t care enough about these kids because to do so would cost us all money, time, and effort, and our churches are apparently almost as greedy and selfish as the rest of our population. When one has the power to help prevent a horror as attrocious as thousands of children needlessly starving to death every day, but chooses not to use that power, one is guilty of their murder.  Because the church, while not succeeding in making abortion illegal, succeeded greatly in making abortion a national issue, they have demonstrated that they have the power to also make the starving children of our world a national issue.  It is evil for the church to refuse to do so. Demand that our clergy take up the cause of starving kids with as great a fervor as they have taken up the cause of the unborn.  Demand that our clergy publicizes our country’s evil in spending only 1/10 of 1% of our federal budget to feed starving kids.  Demand that our clergy chastise our news media like the New York Times, and The Post, and The Los Angeles Times for not taking up the cause of these starving kids. Because there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that these thousands of children that are in danger of starving to death every day are human beings as alive as are any of us, ignoring their suffering is much more evil than ignoring the rights of the unborn. If we don’t come to our senses and feed these children soon, God will punish us severely for our evil indifference to the plight of these children.  The choice is ours – we can spend time and effort and money that we would probably not even miss to feed these children, or we could continue to ignore their suffering.  If we choose the latter, we can look forward to increasing economic decline, violence, and illness as our punishment.  We can look forward to the further deterioration of our familes and of our life styles.  We stand to lose much more by our selfishness in denying these kids food than we will lose when God loses his patience completely with us for this sin and punishes us in ways so inescapable and severe that they defy the reach of our imagination.

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—snipped— Oh goody more christian bullshit from George….. Just what i needed. Do us a favour George – Piss off! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again christianity is the source of 90%of the problems you rant and rave about.

Shaun, please support this assertion.  Specifically please.  Your tendency to generalize without substance about "christianity" seems systemic. NM

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Oh goody more christian bullshit from George….. Just what i needed. Do us a favour George – Piss off! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again christianity is the source of 90%of the problems you rant and rave about. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Every good Christian knows that we are our brother’s keeper.  When we have the resources, knowledge and technology needed to feed the starving kids of the world, but because of our greed and selfishness we ignore thier plight, we are murdering them.  We are all guilty of this sin of omission. Most Christians realize that fetuses are human beings and that it is wrong to murder them by what we euphamistically call abortion.  While many other people don’t have this understanding, there is no question but that the 24,000 kids that die every day from starvation in our world were as alive as any of us.  There is no debate as to their status as human beings. That is why it is so wrong for us to do virtually nothing while these thousands of kids suffer the agony of starvation.  Our churches have fought for years for the rights of the unborn, and because so many of us refuse to recognize fetuses as human beings, they have failed in their effort to save the lives of those children. Our churches, however, have had an equal opportunity to make the starving of children as national and important an issue as they have made abortion, but they have been sinfully silent on this issue.  Our chuches could easily publicize the deplorable fact that only 1/10th of 1% of our federal budget is used to feed starving children.  Our chuches could publicise the fact that for over twenty years our scientists and politicians have known that we have more than enough food, money, and knowledge to feed every child in our world.

But to publicise this would highlight the churches own inaction But our churches apparently don’t care enough about these kids to stand up to our government leaders and defend their right to food, and their right to life.   Perhaps our churches don’t care so much about these children because they are darkskinned, or asian.  Perhaps our churches don’t care enough about these kids because to do so would cost us all money, time, and effort, and our churches are apparently almost as greedy and selfish as the rest of our population.

Bingo! Churches arent ‘almost’ as greedy as the population they are far far more greedy and selfish. They take the millions of dollars that are donated every year under the premise of helping the needy of the world and what do they do with it? They buy houses "for the church" they buy bigger and better equipment for their church, they computerise their church, they do everything but use the money for the needy. Not only are the churches greeedy and selfish they are also arrogant and deceitful. When one has the power to help prevent a horror as attrocious as thousands of children needlessly starving to death every day, but chooses not to use that power, one is guilty of their murder.  Because the church, while not succeeding in making abortion illegal, succeeded greatly in making abortion a national issue, they have demonstrated that they have the power to also make the starving children of our world a national issue.  It is evil for the church to refuse to do so.

Theres another good point. Religion should stay away from politics. The church has no right to take away another persons right to do something just because the church says its a sin. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Demand that our clergy take up the cause of starving kids with as great a fervor as they have taken up the cause of the unborn.  Demand that our clergy publicizes our country’s evil in spending only 1/10 of 1% of our federal budget to feed starving kids.  Demand that our clergy chastise our news media like the New York Times, and The Post, and The Los Angeles Times for not taking up the cause of these starving kids. Because there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that these thousands of children that are in danger of starving to death every day are human beings as alive as are any of us, ignoring their suffering is much more evil than ignoring the rights of the unborn. If we don’t come to our senses and feed these children soon, God will punish us severely for our evil indifference to the plight of these children.  The choice is ours – we can spend time and effort and money that we would probably not even miss to feed these children, or we could continue to ignore their suffering.  If we choose the latter, we can look forward to increasing economic decline, violence, and illness as our punishment.  We can look forward to the further deterioration of our familes and of our life styles.  We stand to lose much more by our selfishness in denying these kids food than we will lose when God loses his patience completely with us for this sin and punishes us in ways so inescapable and severe that they defy the reach of our imagination.

What a load of crap. So much for the peace loving kind god the church claims. Here we see the true nature of the christian church – DO AS THE CHURCH SAYS OR GOD WILL PUNISH YOU SEVERELY!!! its scare tactics pure and simple. I cant understand why good people allow themselves to be bullied by a pompus and arrogant church that wants nothing more than a steady stream of children to rape and a nice fat hip pocket. If we got rid of the churches influence over our lives we would get rid of 90% of the evil in our lives. Imagine theres no heaven, Its easy if you try, No hell below us, And above us only sky, John Lennon "Imagine"

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