(seen at Jordon Cooper)

Poverty is one of the biggest killers of humanity. When one-third of the earth's population is imprisoned in poverty, it is easy for the two-thirds not in poverty to be seen as the jailers. A world in which 10% of the people are enormously wealthy and 50% are exceedingly poor is a very volatile place. Jesus put it like this, Care for the poor, or go to hell. The withness of harmony is living a life that brings relationships back into harmony, that helps others get "with it" in lives of range and resonance without fusing faith and any social ethics options. One study makes that case that $27 billion could save 8 million lives a year. If every citizen in a rich country gave $25 per year extra, 8 million lives a year could be saved. That all it takes to ease tremendous suffering and anguish-less the 50 cents a week. Billions of people are crying for my help. Instead of hearing their cries, I close my ears and go merrily on my shopping sprees for stocking stuffers, purchasing Martha's latest ladle or Eddie Bauer's best buckskin jacket. Is something wrong here?

-- Leonard Sweet in Jesus Drives Me Crazy

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