Can we really afford to make choices that take the food out of the mouths
of starving children with nearly every meal?
Experience hours upon hours of SHEER ENJOYMENT imagining how, during the second coming of Christ, Ann Lee, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, realized that «heterosexual marriage had produced a multitude
of starving children whose cheap labor was exploited by factory workers.»
And I would like to recommend investing some of the money set aside for firecrackers on other things such as food for the millions
of starving children here.
The suggestion was that the millions
of starving children were merely rebellious little brats who deserved no help at all.
When we see the dreadful famines in Africa, it is the pictures
of the starving children that persuade us to donate; when we see people suffering through illnesses, it is the images of sick children that call us to action; and, when we see the tragic stories on the news, it is those that involve children, such as the Dunblane massacre, that fill us with greatest sadness and most anger.
This three - year - old boy would not put anything else in his mouth and he looked like one
of those starving children from Ethiopia.
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Though images
of starving children or ferocious wild animals still linger in the public's perception of Africa, they are no longer reflective of Africa's breadth of industry and culture.
Childhood food memory: «I'm a child of the generation who grew up with food shortages, so we were told to clean our plates and think
of the starving children in China, India, or wherever.
Or, maybe you can recall times from your own childhood when your parents tried to guilt you into finishing your food by asking you to «think
of the starving children in China.»
But I wonder what kind of God would heal the aches and pains of rich Americans while turning a deaf ear to the cries
of starving children elsewhere in the world.
What is the spiritual and cultural equivalent of the picture
of starving children that will move us to action?
We lose the sense of the holiness of the bodies
of starving children and the bodies of women and men torn by violence and torture.
We lose the sense of the holiness of the bodies
of starving children and the bodies of women and men tom by violence and torture.»
With television bringing the hollow faces
of starving children into our living rooms, it has become impossible for the community of faith to remain silent or unresponsive.
God can be bothered to get involved with our sporting events, but he can't be bothered to help the 1000's
of starving children that die in agony each and every single day.
Anyone else think of the millions
of starving children in the world and how much he must love them?
«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full
of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»
His dream - vision
of the starving child will never leave him; his joyful willingness to accept his conviction, even though he is innocent of the crime, attests to a real «conversion.»
The mother
of a starving child in an Ethiopian desert?
Better still, his major installation The Sound of Silence (At Wits Art Museum from 23 February) will enjoy a sort of homecoming given that it is created in tribute, and in order to examine South African photographer Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize - winning photograph
of a starving child being stalked by a vulture in Sudan (2006).
We have as much a duty to reduce our carbon emissions for the sake
of the starving child on the other side of the planet as we do the starving child a thousand years into the future.
Distribute a fortified soy / rice casserole - style meal specifically formulated to meet the nutritional needs
of a starving child
Not exact matches
I saw
starving children begging on the streets as I walked to my work site — there was really no end to the challenges
of working in this context.
So instead
of starving, the families have enough to eat and enough extra to buy clothing and send their
children to school.
I guess that just means you think you're special enough to your god that prayer would get you to have good test scores, but god will continue to let
children around the world
starve, get kidnapped, raped, and all sorts
of horrific things, but it's a priority that you get good grades.
enjaysea What have YOU done today to ease the suffering
of the earths
starving children?
what kind
of god lets a
child die and
starve and be beaten and molested?
The love
of god that lets
children starve to death.
You allow yourself to believe god helped you find your keys, but ignore that he allowed a
child to die
of cancer or
starve.
But that's nothing compared to the millions
of children in Africa and Asia I
starve to death each year, flies crawling on their faces, because they are too weak to swat them away.
No
child starves in today's world without the help
of willful humans abetting the starvation.
Why did Atheist Kim Jun IL allow millions
of men Women &
children STARVE TO DEATH?
good job assh * le you couldve been praying for all the dying
starving children of the world but instead you wasted god's effort on some rain.
I guess you could pull a Deepak Chopra & call all those things part
of the «oneness»
of good & evil — but I don't think that holds up in the face
of concentration camps, or
starving children, or r.a.pe victims, or even if someone just punches you in the nose.
The «
Starving Children all over the world can not be solved with abortion» You eave out the facts: Fact one is that many
of those governments are in control
of the supplies that get to those countries..
Anyone else bothered by the fact that the pope sits on a throne
of gold while
children in his own city go
starving?
But do you or your church have a reasonable solution to help all
of the
starving, poor, unwanted
children in the world?
Who wants to spend Sunday taking care
of disease ridden
starving and suffering
children?
Later he would say that «those kinds
of questions [to
starve the afflicted
child] can be answered best by the people who are right there on the scene, if they think clearly and act responsibly.»
It doesn't help the thousands
of children who
starve to death daily.
I am so glad that god prefers to answer athletes» prayers while millions
of children starve and die each year!
Jesus hates the little
children, the
starving children of the world.
We are informed
of approaches that see no responsibly for
starving children in Africa and that Hitler should just have acted from a more prudent point
of view in his treatment
of the Jews.
When the price
of a new suit will immunize a thousand
children, when the money we would spend on a new television or a fancier vacation would feed a
starving village for a week, when the down payment on a new car would dig a new well and provide new life and hope — do we have this right?
But it is also necessary that we utterly reject the temptation to sloth, that perversion
of imagination which gives us, in the words
of Fred Craddock, «the ability to look at a
starving child... with a swollen stomach and say, «Well, it's not my kid.»
Yeah, Jesus would have been SO down with 1 %
of the population holding 90 %
of the wealth while
children starve and die
of curable illnesses because their parents can't afford health insurance.
There are various strategies that can be adopted regarding the use
of money, but first you must be willing to accept the fact that all that you have is ultimately God's, that there are alternative uses for your money, that your decision on how to spend $ 100 can literally be a life or death decision for a
starving child half a world away.
I do believe that the church has failed miserably in taking care
of all the
children in the world who are suffering and
starving from lack
of food and care.
How can one «criticize» the experience
of the victim
of domestic abuse or incest, the
child refugee who has seen his family slaughtered by the national police, or the mother who must watch her
children starve?
Must the American housewife accept the blame for the suffering
of other mothers who watch their
children starve?