“”What if all the money and manpower available to Chick-Fil-A on August 1, 2012 were directed by Chrisitans toward eradicating the water crisis in Africa or poverty in the inner-cities of America?””
What the Pastor fails to understand is that those are issues for the people that are affected to solve. No one can do that for them. He is saying that there are those without water or living in poverty because someone else didn’t give something to them.
Exactly right.
The line you reference was perhaps one of the worst in an overall pretty good article.
I agree with you that just because there is one problem in Africa or the inner cities doesn’t mean we needn’t address another cultural problem.
Samaritan’s Purse is doing a great job finding water for the thirsty in Africa. And the poor in the inner city is a RESULT of liberal ideology...not a lack of compassion by evangelical Christians. :)
So I think you make very good points. The bulk of the article, though, was pretty good imo.
Yeah, all those Rock Band benefits for Africa really did the job, didn't they? Or are you deliberately forgetting what a smashing success the US military venture in Somalia turned out to be?
For that matter, what if all of the public service ads about "tolerance" were directed towards people who are, you know, STARVING TO DEATH, instead of well-fed, self-indulgent people who are seeking to legitimize perversion?
Cheers!