There is nothing 'conservative' about the global socialism you are preaching, and the global socialism that the president is practicing.
Donate your OWN money, which is what the Lord is asking YOU to do. DO NOT STEAL from others to assauage YOUR conscience, or to LINE YOUR POCKETBOOK with your foreign investments!
Donate your OWN money, which is what the Lord is asking YOU to do. DO NOT STEAL from others to assauage YOUR conscience, or to LINE YOUR POCKETBOOK with your foreign investments!
When I see syrupy, condescending, preachy crap, used as a vehicle to condemn me for not wanting my pocket picked in order to pay off someone ELSE'S pet project, I begin to understand why "separation of church and state" is such a major issue for some folks.
And I say this as a CONSERVATIVE evangelical Christian.
The situation in Africa has another dimension totally ignored on this thread. We must rely on the African people to battle Islamofascism in their own lands. The 1998 embassy bombings occurred in Kenya and Tanzania, two East African countries with sizable regional Muslim populations. Terrorist-dominated Sudan commits genocide against Christians, animists, and even other Muslims. Despite its large Muslim population, Ethiopia today battles Somalia. The Lord's Resistance Army terrorizes and steals the children of northern Uganda but operates largely in the Congo with Sudanese assistance. Muslims battle Christians for dominance of Nigeria.
If Christian missionaries and American doctors can penetrate their way through the thuggish governments to the African people, then we can use those people as a base and barrier in the long twilight struggle against the Islamofascists. Some African countries--particularly South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Spain--are actually as advanced as Mexico. Other West African countries have not prospered but continue to display encouraging signs that they will throw away the yoke of socialism and instill representative government.
I cannot say whether or to what extent the African aid programs actually help ordinary diseased people, but to the extent that they do work, they allow us to cultivate and strengthen potential allies in a region of the world that otherwise might harbor terrorists. People sick with any of the numerous endemic diseases of Africa cannot fight effectively and often cannot provide even a meager diet for their families. As part of our battle against Islamofascist terrorism, we should find constitutional ways to check the spread of Islam in Africa and elsewhere. Local and foreign missionaries can continue to spread Christianity, the first step toward building a Western civilization that depends upon the merger of strong Christian faith and scientific reason.