Are we doing enough??
“They will see this on TV and say, ‘that’s horrible’, and then go back to eating dinner”. (Hotel Rwanda)
Do we do enough for the world? Is it really enough to feel sympathetic whenever we see others suffering and dying on the news? Is thinking, “God help them” really enough?
So many people are suffering across the world for so many different reasons. Ethnic cleansing, human trafficking and racism are but a few evils filling our world. Yes, believe it or not, slavery is still around. And what is being done about it?
We knock journalists a lot. But how many of them have risked their lives to show us the truth? How many of them have been on the front lines of slaughters so that we could experience them? They don’t do it for fame. They do it because it is news—it is news that needs to be known and taken care of.
In 1994, Rwanda was torn apart by civil war—one tribe trying to literally exterminate the other. Yet the West, the countries with the ability to stop this unnecessary killing, pulled out, fearful that they would have another failure like in Somalia. If we are a world police, we are not one in that we should start wars, like in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rather, we are one in that we should STOP wars. Did Christ ever sit by and watch others suffer and die. Did Christ simply offer a prayer for the end of suffering and then go back to dinner? Or did Christ get out there with those suffering and dying, experience their anguish with them and try to ease it?
Whenever we call ourselves Christians, we call ourselves Christ.
Do we do enough for the world? Is it really enough to feel sympathetic whenever we see others suffering and dying on the news? Is thinking, “God help them” really enough?
So many people are suffering across the world for so many different reasons. Ethnic cleansing, human trafficking and racism are but a few evils filling our world. Yes, believe it or not, slavery is still around. And what is being done about it?
We knock journalists a lot. But how many of them have risked their lives to show us the truth? How many of them have been on the front lines of slaughters so that we could experience them? They don’t do it for fame. They do it because it is news—it is news that needs to be known and taken care of.
In 1994, Rwanda was torn apart by civil war—one tribe trying to literally exterminate the other. Yet the West, the countries with the ability to stop this unnecessary killing, pulled out, fearful that they would have another failure like in Somalia. If we are a world police, we are not one in that we should start wars, like in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rather, we are one in that we should STOP wars. Did Christ ever sit by and watch others suffer and die. Did Christ simply offer a prayer for the end of suffering and then go back to dinner? Or did Christ get out there with those suffering and dying, experience their anguish with them and try to ease it?
Whenever we call ourselves Christians, we call ourselves Christ.
posted by Scott the Seminarian at 9:27 AM
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