Tuesday, August 16, 2005
---A Practical Matter, Part II:
What would Jesus do?
He also promised them severe punishment if they disobeyed these commandments by oppressing the poor and helpless or ignoring their needs. After Israel spent much of its history doing just these things, God sent His indictments against them through the prophets:
...ran away?!
Why? He answered very similar suggestions elsewhere---Luke 4:5-8 and John 7:2-7, for example. As before, all He had to do to end the unspeakable misery of poverty, hunger and disease according to the wishes of the people was---establish His Goverment among men, place God’s stamp of approval on human political power and earthly civilization, and agree to fit into our understanding---give up on ever freeing us from slavery to sin and death---exchange the Kingdom of God for Hell on Earth.
As a practical matter, everyone knows how the imaginary scenario mentioned at the end of part one would turn out. Jesus talked about what happens when you remove evil from an individual's life but don't put anything back to replace it (Luke 11:24-26)---the same things would happen to collections of individuals. You can't fix human misery---the product of millenia of evil, abuse and neglect---by a new UN initiative, economic aid, new laws, trade incentives, international condemnation, intervention, or warfare. The cure for human misery and evil requires change in the hearts, minds, and souls of people
(Jeremiah 31:33, 2 Corinthians 5:17) .
One of Jesus’ best known parables is in Luke 15:11-32. The parable of the lost, or “prodigal”, son is not really the example of God’s unconditional love and forgiveness we might think. The son in the story does have to do something. He has to come to his senses, admit that what he has done was sinful, and prepare to humble himself before his father and accept the consequences according to his father’s judgment. Then he has to get up, and go home. After that, it doesn’t matter to his father that he only came to his senses after the money was gone, only that his son who was lost has been found!
But what if the story was a little different? Perhaps the son could just send a note to his father demanding some more money. Better yet, he could go home, and demand that his father give him a place in the family home, that his “friends” be allowed to come and go as they please, that the father respect his “privacy”, his need for “his own space”. What would the consequences to the household be? What would happen to all the other members of the family, the workers and servants who have acted faithfully and depend on the integrity and prosperity of the house for their sustenance?
The question often comes up---why does God allow us to suffer? The lesson we have to learn about suffering is harsh, and a lot of people---especially those who might have gotten more than their share of the suffering ---aren’t going to want to hear this, but it can’t be avoided. Human suffering wasn’t God’s idea---it was ours. We all accepted it as the reasonable cost of doing business when we decided that we could run our lives, our governments, our world, and our relationships without God.
These great and necessary tasks---feeding the hungry, healing the sick, lifting up the impoverished and oppressed, and teaching the people of the world about God's Love in Jesus Christ---are not separate. They are the same job, and none will succeed without the others. The beginning of the end of human suffering---including the “here and now” afflictions of poverty, disease, and malnutrition---is in His Love, acting through each of us.
None of us is invisible to God ---from the smallest, sickly child in southern Africa to the head of state to the neighbor next door that we’ve never met --- and we must not be invisible to each other. The solution is still within our grasp, if we admit the foolishness of our own ways, humble ourselves before His Judgment, accept His Son as King in our lives, and go home.
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John 6The Law of God, as passed down through Moses, is remarkable even if viewed from a narrow humanistic perspective, as if it were a mere legal document. It transcends all the norms and practices of the ancient world in its provisions for social justice, equitable use of property, and the welfare of all the people of the nation. The land was given to Israel by God, and the people, from the least to the greatest, were to consider themselves His tenants on the land, rather than landowners. Those who were in need were to be provided loans without interest, or gleanings from the fields of those with plenty. Every seventh year, all loans were to be forgiven, all indentured servants were to be released, and lands taken in security of loans were to be returned to their original owners according to the tribal distributions decreed by God. It was in this context that He provided the commandments that Jesus called the Greatest--- Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18 ---which virtually equate love for God with love for neighbor. God promised them prosperity as long as they lived according to these commands.
8Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up, 9"Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?"
10Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand of them. 11Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
12When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted." 13So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
14After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world." 15Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
He also promised them severe punishment if they disobeyed these commandments by oppressing the poor and helpless or ignoring their needs. After Israel spent much of its history doing just these things, God sent His indictments against them through the prophets:
Isaiah 1When Jesus arrived, and was rejected in turn, and as God prepared yet another exile of Judah from His land, Jesus repeated these indictments (among many others) once again:
23 Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them. 24 Therefore the Lord, the LORD Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares:
"Ah, I will get relief from my foes and avenge myself on my enemies.
Isaiah 3
14 The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people:
"It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses. 15 What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?" declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.
Isaiah 10
1 Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, 2 to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
Luke 20Jesus showed love and compassion beyond human understanding toward the poor, the hungry, the sick, dying, lost, and outcast. He showed power beyond human comprehension in healing the sick, feeding the hungry, and raising the dead. Now, in John 6, we see Him finally getting the recognition He deserved. He only had to reach out, and all the suffering and affliction of humanity would end, replaced by His glory and power. In response to this awesome opportunity, Jesus....
46"Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. 47They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely."
Matthew 23
23"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. “
...ran away?!
Why? He answered very similar suggestions elsewhere---Luke 4:5-8 and John 7:2-7, for example. As before, all He had to do to end the unspeakable misery of poverty, hunger and disease according to the wishes of the people was---establish His Goverment among men, place God’s stamp of approval on human political power and earthly civilization, and agree to fit into our understanding---give up on ever freeing us from slavery to sin and death---exchange the Kingdom of God for Hell on Earth.
As a practical matter, everyone knows how the imaginary scenario mentioned at the end of part one would turn out. Jesus talked about what happens when you remove evil from an individual's life but don't put anything back to replace it (Luke 11:24-26)---the same things would happen to collections of individuals. You can't fix human misery---the product of millenia of evil, abuse and neglect---by a new UN initiative, economic aid, new laws, trade incentives, international condemnation, intervention, or warfare. The cure for human misery and evil requires change in the hearts, minds, and souls of people
(Jeremiah 31:33, 2 Corinthians 5:17) .
One of Jesus’ best known parables is in Luke 15:11-32. The parable of the lost, or “prodigal”, son is not really the example of God’s unconditional love and forgiveness we might think. The son in the story does have to do something. He has to come to his senses, admit that what he has done was sinful, and prepare to humble himself before his father and accept the consequences according to his father’s judgment. Then he has to get up, and go home. After that, it doesn’t matter to his father that he only came to his senses after the money was gone, only that his son who was lost has been found!
But what if the story was a little different? Perhaps the son could just send a note to his father demanding some more money. Better yet, he could go home, and demand that his father give him a place in the family home, that his “friends” be allowed to come and go as they please, that the father respect his “privacy”, his need for “his own space”. What would the consequences to the household be? What would happen to all the other members of the family, the workers and servants who have acted faithfully and depend on the integrity and prosperity of the house for their sustenance?
The question often comes up---why does God allow us to suffer? The lesson we have to learn about suffering is harsh, and a lot of people---especially those who might have gotten more than their share of the suffering ---aren’t going to want to hear this, but it can’t be avoided. Human suffering wasn’t God’s idea---it was ours. We all accepted it as the reasonable cost of doing business when we decided that we could run our lives, our governments, our world, and our relationships without God.
These great and necessary tasks---feeding the hungry, healing the sick, lifting up the impoverished and oppressed, and teaching the people of the world about God's Love in Jesus Christ---are not separate. They are the same job, and none will succeed without the others. The beginning of the end of human suffering---including the “here and now” afflictions of poverty, disease, and malnutrition---is in His Love, acting through each of us.
None of us is invisible to God ---from the smallest, sickly child in southern Africa to the head of state to the neighbor next door that we’ve never met --- and we must not be invisible to each other. The solution is still within our grasp, if we admit the foolishness of our own ways, humble ourselves before His Judgment, accept His Son as King in our lives, and go home.
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
---A Practical Matter, Part I:
The Price of Invisibility---Poverty, Malnutrition, and Disease
WHO’s document Nutrition for health and development: A global agenda for combating malnutrition contains more detail on this subject. Almost half of the deaths of children each year are due to malnutrition. Nutritional deficiencies are among the most common preventable causes of brain damage and blindness in children. Section 2.1, “The spectrum of malnutrition”, contains a summary of the situation (although they seem determined to throw in overnutrition (obesity) and misnutrution? (as a cause of cancer) to complicate the issue).
Meanwhile, disease also ravages the developing world. An admittedly cursory scan of the CIA World Factbook shows high risks of the same “laundry list” of diseases among most of these countries, especially in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis, typhoid fever, malaria, meningitis, as well as deficiency-related diseases including mental retardation, blindness, and developmental deformities which can be readily treated or prevented with a ridiculously small investment in supplemental iodine, vitamins, iron, and other micronutrients. Poor sanitation, filthy drinking water, and living conditions which in America would result in serious jail time if inflicted upon dogs or cattle, are the facts of life of millions in the 21st Century.
Then there’s HIV/AIDS. [ WHO is in significant denial here; when homosexuality---which WHO always refers to as “men having sex with men”---is addressed, it is usually about the role of stigmatization and anti-sodomy laws as barriers to victims seeking treatment, not the role of this elective behavior as the original and still major vector of the disease. WHO apparently declines to admit that abstinence from homosexual behavior might have any benefits in preventing the spread of the disease, while the remarkable effect of abstinence from premarital heterosexual relations in Uganda on infection rates of HIV is mentioned. Obviously the beneficial role of Christian doctrine as a response to both the destructive behavior and the unforgiving repression of those suffering the consequences ( 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ) will not be found in UN literature. ] WHO’s “2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic ” refers to HIV/AIDS as an “extraordinary kind of a crisis ”, “unique in human history in its rapid spread, its extent and the depth of its impact. ” 20 years after the disease was first recognized, the toll is 20 million people dead, with 37.8 million infected as of the time of the Report, and the goals of simply stopping the acceleration of rates of new infections are nowhere near to being realized. Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 10% of the world’s population, has about two-thirds of the people infected. 57% of the infected in these countries are women, who often suffer repression and mistreatment due to prevailing customs and traditions, who are usually required to care for the ill, and who are biologically more susceptible to the infection.
There has been remarkable success in the development of anti-retroviral drugs to prolong life and restore a measure of health to the HIV-infected, and significant reductions in the cost of the drugs, but in the poorer countries only about 7% of the infected have access to these life-sustaining medications. Meanwhile, about 12 million children in sub-Saharan Africa have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS, and many of these ever-growing numbers of “AIDS orphans” are neglected
All of these conditions contribute to a hellish cycle of deprivation and death. Poverty leads to chronic malnutrition, which makes the victims more susceptible to disease. AIDS and other diseases drastically diminish income potential and educational opportunity, destroy economies and individual resources, and kill in increasing numbers, leaving impoverished survivors, including unsupported children.
Nor are the degree and distribution of this suffering just an accident of geography. Political, economic, and social priorities in the powerful industrialized nations as well as in many of the poor, devastated countries themselves are primary ingredients in the world's suffering. Few could argue that that the resources to end the misery of the world's poor are not available to us, or that much of the death, disease, and loss which afflicts them is preventable. What is the problem then? As an example, UNAID’s executive summary to the Report calls for funding of a global AIDS response of $20 billion USD per year by 2007, to cover antiretroviral therapy for 6 million people, support for 22 million orphans, adult counseling and testing, and education programs in schools. Funding as of the Report was at about $5 billion USD. Even if the funding calls are inflated by bureaucracy and corruption in the decrepit UN organizations, this “burden” on industrialized nations needs to be put into perspective: that’s about 9 B-2 “Stealth” Bombers , about 15 Shuttle launches. or about one-fifth of an International Space Station (The remaining four-fifths of an ISS would probably go a long way to relieve other diseases, malnutrition, and poverty).
No nation can “wall off” the horrors of the rest of the world and go on to develop its military power and national prestige in isolation. It is particularly apparent from recent outbreaks of virulent diseases, including hemorrhagic fevers such as Marburg and Ebola, and Avian Influenza, that there’s no such thing as “somebody else’s problem”. Death for millions in any country on the planet could be a mutation and an airplane flight away.
Political, social, and military conditions in many of the most affected countries themselves undoubtedly contribute heavily to the suffering. Another cursory scan of the CIA World Factbook, for example, shows that a disproportionate number of African nations are or have been at war with one or more neighbors recently. It seems that almost all of them are forced to support large refugee populations from one or more neighbors due to other nations’ wars.
Few outrages could be more sickening than the situation in Rwanda, site of one of the bloodiest genocides in modern history (which an American President was too busy to notice) in revenge for an overthrow and exile which was, in turn, a reprisal for years of repression of one African tribe by another. According to the CIA’s Factbook, Rwanda has a 60% poverty rate (mean per capita GDP $1300USD per year), a 5% adult AIDS prevalence (2003), and an economy decimated by the genocide, warfare, collapse of the world market for coffee, and lack of infrastructure. It still depends heavily on international aid. Nevertheless, it spends 3.2% of its GDP ( a percentage comparable to the military expenditures of the U.S.) to support its military so that it can continue its border disputes with its neighbors, maintain an insurgency in the Congo, and resist various internal insurgencies and rebel groups.
Then there’s Angola---devastated by a quarter-century of a civil war which was often exploited and encouraged by other nations, with a 70% poverty rate, inflation rates over 100%, and over 50% unemployment. Angola’s government nevertheless sees fit to spend an incomprehensible 10.6% of its GDP to support its military!
This is not an acceptable outcome---the world, particularly the people of God’s Kingdom dedicated in Christ to showing His Love to the world, cannot stand by and suffer the loss of entire continents of human beings. The condition of a third of the world’s population beggars all pretense of basic human decency. Even if the statistics were skewed or the descriptions exaggerated somehow, the fact of the abject failure of humanity to rectify this monstrous evil is an unanswerable indictment against us all. While people can die of invisibility, we are all guilty.
So what should be done? Imagine , as John Lennon was found of saying, that we could set aside the arrogant lust for power, our endless appetite for evil, and would no longer tolerate the indecency of allowing millions to suffer and die when the resources are clearly available to save them. We only need to convince world and local leaders to act fairly and honestly, and to reorganize their priorities to equitably insure the health and well-being of all humanity---our most precious and irreplaceable resource.
But everyone knows that none of this will ever work. The reason that none of this will ever happen is that we---WHO, the UN, presidents, kings, politicians, and everyone else on this planet, have been completely missing the point.
NEXT: A Practical Matter, Part II: What would Jesus do?
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Proverbs 14
31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker,
but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
This is an extremely difficult subject, provoked by a local sermon and concerns alluded to in earlier installments. It is particularly important that this topic be approached prayerfully, while avoiding the obscuring influences of political views, and I’m not very good at that. Everyone sees this subject-matter all the time, to the point that (much as Stalin supposedly said) it often fades from tragedy to statistic. It isn’t clear, yet, what it will take to make us aware of the horrific magnitude of this worldwide crisis, but we have to start somewhere.
Here’s what the World Health Organization’s report on malnutrition has to say:
“Chronic food deficits affect about 792 million people in the world (FAO 2000), including 20% of the population in developing countries. Worldwide, malnutrition affects one in three people and each of its major forms dwarfs most other diseases globally (WHO, 2000). Malnutrition affects all age groups, but it is especially common among the poor and those with inadequate access to health education and to clean water and good sanitation. More than 70% of children with protein-energy malnutrition live in Asia, 26% live in Africa, and 4% in Latin America and the Caribbean (WHO 2000). ” [ Wikipedia definition and description of PEM ]I recognize that WHO’s information and statistics might be found less than respectable by many, due to various economic and political agendas, but they are readily accessible and mostly in one place. The above looks like a reasonable summary of the nature and factors of world malnutrition---with its most devastating effects in underdeveloped countries, where it is exacerbated by poverty, poor access to health care and information, and bad living conditions.
WHO’s document Nutrition for health and development: A global agenda for combating malnutrition contains more detail on this subject. Almost half of the deaths of children each year are due to malnutrition. Nutritional deficiencies are among the most common preventable causes of brain damage and blindness in children. Section 2.1, “The spectrum of malnutrition”, contains a summary of the situation (although they seem determined to throw in overnutrition (obesity) and misnutrution? (as a cause of cancer) to complicate the issue).
Meanwhile, disease also ravages the developing world. An admittedly cursory scan of the CIA World Factbook shows high risks of the same “laundry list” of diseases among most of these countries, especially in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis, typhoid fever, malaria, meningitis, as well as deficiency-related diseases including mental retardation, blindness, and developmental deformities which can be readily treated or prevented with a ridiculously small investment in supplemental iodine, vitamins, iron, and other micronutrients. Poor sanitation, filthy drinking water, and living conditions which in America would result in serious jail time if inflicted upon dogs or cattle, are the facts of life of millions in the 21st Century.
Then there’s HIV/AIDS. [ WHO is in significant denial here; when homosexuality---which WHO always refers to as “men having sex with men”---is addressed, it is usually about the role of stigmatization and anti-sodomy laws as barriers to victims seeking treatment, not the role of this elective behavior as the original and still major vector of the disease. WHO apparently declines to admit that abstinence from homosexual behavior might have any benefits in preventing the spread of the disease, while the remarkable effect of abstinence from premarital heterosexual relations in Uganda on infection rates of HIV is mentioned. Obviously the beneficial role of Christian doctrine as a response to both the destructive behavior and the unforgiving repression of those suffering the consequences ( 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ) will not be found in UN literature. ] WHO’s “2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic ” refers to HIV/AIDS as an “extraordinary kind of a crisis ”, “unique in human history in its rapid spread, its extent and the depth of its impact. ” 20 years after the disease was first recognized, the toll is 20 million people dead, with 37.8 million infected as of the time of the Report, and the goals of simply stopping the acceleration of rates of new infections are nowhere near to being realized. Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 10% of the world’s population, has about two-thirds of the people infected. 57% of the infected in these countries are women, who often suffer repression and mistreatment due to prevailing customs and traditions, who are usually required to care for the ill, and who are biologically more susceptible to the infection.
There has been remarkable success in the development of anti-retroviral drugs to prolong life and restore a measure of health to the HIV-infected, and significant reductions in the cost of the drugs, but in the poorer countries only about 7% of the infected have access to these life-sustaining medications. Meanwhile, about 12 million children in sub-Saharan Africa have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS, and many of these ever-growing numbers of “AIDS orphans” are neglected
All of these conditions contribute to a hellish cycle of deprivation and death. Poverty leads to chronic malnutrition, which makes the victims more susceptible to disease. AIDS and other diseases drastically diminish income potential and educational opportunity, destroy economies and individual resources, and kill in increasing numbers, leaving impoverished survivors, including unsupported children.
Nor are the degree and distribution of this suffering just an accident of geography. Political, economic, and social priorities in the powerful industrialized nations as well as in many of the poor, devastated countries themselves are primary ingredients in the world's suffering. Few could argue that that the resources to end the misery of the world's poor are not available to us, or that much of the death, disease, and loss which afflicts them is preventable. What is the problem then? As an example, UNAID’s executive summary to the Report calls for funding of a global AIDS response of $20 billion USD per year by 2007, to cover antiretroviral therapy for 6 million people, support for 22 million orphans, adult counseling and testing, and education programs in schools. Funding as of the Report was at about $5 billion USD. Even if the funding calls are inflated by bureaucracy and corruption in the decrepit UN organizations, this “burden” on industrialized nations needs to be put into perspective: that’s about 9 B-2 “Stealth” Bombers , about 15 Shuttle launches. or about one-fifth of an International Space Station (The remaining four-fifths of an ISS would probably go a long way to relieve other diseases, malnutrition, and poverty).
No nation can “wall off” the horrors of the rest of the world and go on to develop its military power and national prestige in isolation. It is particularly apparent from recent outbreaks of virulent diseases, including hemorrhagic fevers such as Marburg and Ebola, and Avian Influenza, that there’s no such thing as “somebody else’s problem”. Death for millions in any country on the planet could be a mutation and an airplane flight away.
Political, social, and military conditions in many of the most affected countries themselves undoubtedly contribute heavily to the suffering. Another cursory scan of the CIA World Factbook, for example, shows that a disproportionate number of African nations are or have been at war with one or more neighbors recently. It seems that almost all of them are forced to support large refugee populations from one or more neighbors due to other nations’ wars.
Few outrages could be more sickening than the situation in Rwanda, site of one of the bloodiest genocides in modern history (which an American President was too busy to notice) in revenge for an overthrow and exile which was, in turn, a reprisal for years of repression of one African tribe by another. According to the CIA’s Factbook, Rwanda has a 60% poverty rate (mean per capita GDP $1300USD per year), a 5% adult AIDS prevalence (2003), and an economy decimated by the genocide, warfare, collapse of the world market for coffee, and lack of infrastructure. It still depends heavily on international aid. Nevertheless, it spends 3.2% of its GDP ( a percentage comparable to the military expenditures of the U.S.) to support its military so that it can continue its border disputes with its neighbors, maintain an insurgency in the Congo, and resist various internal insurgencies and rebel groups.
Then there’s Angola---devastated by a quarter-century of a civil war which was often exploited and encouraged by other nations, with a 70% poverty rate, inflation rates over 100%, and over 50% unemployment. Angola’s government nevertheless sees fit to spend an incomprehensible 10.6% of its GDP to support its military!
This is not an acceptable outcome---the world, particularly the people of God’s Kingdom dedicated in Christ to showing His Love to the world, cannot stand by and suffer the loss of entire continents of human beings. The condition of a third of the world’s population beggars all pretense of basic human decency. Even if the statistics were skewed or the descriptions exaggerated somehow, the fact of the abject failure of humanity to rectify this monstrous evil is an unanswerable indictment against us all. While people can die of invisibility, we are all guilty.
So what should be done? Imagine , as John Lennon was found of saying, that we could set aside the arrogant lust for power, our endless appetite for evil, and would no longer tolerate the indecency of allowing millions to suffer and die when the resources are clearly available to save them. We only need to convince world and local leaders to act fairly and honestly, and to reorganize their priorities to equitably insure the health and well-being of all humanity---our most precious and irreplaceable resource.
But everyone knows that none of this will ever work. The reason that none of this will ever happen is that we---WHO, the UN, presidents, kings, politicians, and everyone else on this planet, have been completely missing the point.
NEXT: A Practical Matter, Part II: What would Jesus do?
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