How can people just sit back when over 9,000 children die of starvation every day?

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I know that none of us as individuals can stop this atrocity, but to just sit back and ignore it, I believe, is sinful given the second commandment of Christ. Few people, I’m afraid, dare not lift a finger.
 
Good point.

Robert;
How many hungry child have you brought into your home?

You ask how people can just sit back and allow it to happen. How can you?
 
maryjk said:
Good point.

Robert;
How many hungry child have you brought into your home?

You ask how people can just sit back and allow it to happen. How can you?
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I do not know of any starving children. But I pray a lot and usually make a $100 contribution to Save the Children, which is a Catholic charity. I would donate more, but I’m disabled and live on very little.
 
Does anybody believe that not helping is a sin?

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
 
Robert_Sock said:
I do not know of any starving children. But I pray a lot and usually make a $100 contribution to Save the Children, which is a Catholic charity. I would donate more, but I’m disabled and live on very little.
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What makes sure we don’t help in any we can?

Do you seriously think you are the only one who is doing something?

I have put in efforts by volunteering my time to ensure clean drinking water for people in Asia and Latin America. Yes, I have traveled to other countries to volunteer my time and skills. I have also donated as much as possible to charities.

I have family members who have gone to the third world to provide free medical care to the poor.

You hardly know us yet you sit in judgement of what we do or what you accuse us of not doing.
 
I support a local soup kitchen and outreach center. They help the homless and working poor. I gave them a donation in May during the Give to “my city name” 24 hour fundraising event.

I also give to my local right to life.
I give to Priests for Life.
I give to Susan B Anthony List which helps elect pro life women (and men sometimes) to congress and senate.
I donate to a local women’s shelter run by my catholic social services for domestic abuse victims and women escaping FORCED or COERCED abortion.

When the Haiti quake happened, I sent some $ to them via my local Catholic social services org.

What more do you want me to do?

I also am donating soup to one of the local food pantrys in town, run by the Catholic churches. Its part of the Advent Giving Wreath program my parish does every year.
I may donate other food items, but I’ll want to check the tags this weekend for other food items.
 
jediliz said:
I support a local soup kitchen and outreach center. They help the homless and working poor. I gave them a donation in May during the Give to “my city name” 24 hour fundraising event.

I also give to my local right to life.
I give to Priests for Life.
I give to Susan B Anthony List which helps elect pro life women (and men sometimes) to congress and senate.
I donate to a local women’s shelter run by my catholic social services for domestic abuse victims and women escaping FORCED or COERCED abortion.

When the Haiti quake happened, I sent some $ to them via my local Catholic social services org.

What more do you want me to do?

I also am donating soup to one of the local food pantrys in town, run by the Catholic churches. Its part of the Advent Giving Wreath program my parish does every year.
I may donate other food items, but I’ll want to check the tags this weekend for other food items.
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To be brutally frank, I believe none of us here have any reason to justify ourselves to Robert Sock. We all know what we do to help the needy, and this isn’t the first time he has opened threads like these.

Enough, I say. Threads like these should be immediately closed, IMHO.,
 
Sarcelle said:
What makes sure we don’t help in any we can?

Do you seriously think you are the only one who is doing something?

I have put in efforts by volunteering my time to ensure clean drinking water for people in Asia and Latin America. Yes, I have traveled to other countries to volunteer my time and skills. I have also donated as much as possible to charities.

I have family members who have gone to the third world to provide free medical care to the poor.

You hardly know us yet you sit in judgement of what we do or what you accuse us of not doing.
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I never meant to imply that nobody was helping. I commend you for helping!
 
jediliz said:
I support a local soup kitchen and outreach center. They help the homless and working poor. I gave them a donation in May during the Give to “my city name” 24 hour fundraising event.

I also give to my local right to life.
I give to Priests for Life.
I give to Susan B Anthony List which helps elect pro life women (and men sometimes) to congress and senate.
I donate to a local women’s shelter run by my catholic social services for domestic abuse victims and women escaping FORCED or COERCED abortion.

When the Haiti quake happened, I sent some $ to them via my local Catholic social services org.

What more do you want me to do?

I also am donating soup to one of the local food pantrys in town, run by the Catholic churches. Its part of the Advent Giving Wreath program my parish does every year.
I may donate other food items, but I’ll want to check the tags this weekend for other food items.
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Robert_Sock said:
I do not know of any starving children. But I pray a lot and usually make a $100 contribution to Save the Children, which is a Catholic charity. I would donate more, but I’m disabled and live on very little.
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If Save the Children is a Catholic charity, they’re certainly very quiet about it. Are you privy to information that’s not on their website?

savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6115947/k.B143/Official_USA_Site.htm?msource=wexgphomb615&gclid=Cj0KEQiAkIWzBRDK1ayo-Yjt38wBEiQAi7NnP4hd_YFtSSw69pLGxPKnqQcF_42eRA9yz-fc_0bI18kaAu-b8P8HAQ

They do have a 90% rating from Charity Navigator. That said, they did have $190 mil in the bank at the end of 2014. With that much in reserve, they don’t need anything from me.

charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4438#.VmIOSP0gkqQ
 
Ultimately, there will always be starving people in the world we cannot help. Even if everyone donated 10% of their money to charities to help the poor, there would still be people in isolated third world countries who simply cannot be reached because of war or other problems (and then of course, the poor are not society’s only social problem). The Bible actually notes that the poor will never depart from the Earth while Christ is gone – which isn’t saying that we shouldn’t eliminate as much of it as we can, but it does point out the merely practical issue that we can’t just eradicate all the world’s problems anymore than we can snap our fingers and eradicate sin by preaching more. That being said, more charity can always be used and it should be strongly encouraged from Christians – and for the most part, it is.
 
The reason people sit indifferent to the starving of 9000 children is the same reason why people sat indifferent to the Genocides of Rwanda, Bosnia, Nazi-Occupied Poland, Ottoman-Controlled Armenia, and British-Controlled Ireland.

Because it’s not happening to “us”, it’s happening to “them”. It’s harder to care about what happens to those outside of one’s individual group because those others are seen as different and therefore less important.

This can be seen in news; whenever there is a big debate over “should we let these refugees in” or “should we intervene in this country”, everyone seems to focus only on how this affects the US. During the debate over whether or not to intervene in Iraq, Saddam Hussein mustard-gassing his own people was a footnote at best and utterly forgotten at worst. During the Vietnam War, the atrocities of The North Vietnamese and The Vietcong were utterly ignored. Did you know there is a Genocide going on Right Now in The Congo? It does not effect The US, so nobody here cares.

The trick is to redefine your entire group as including all of humanity. Because ALL humans matter.
 
Robert_Sock said:
I do not know of any starving children. But I pray a lot and usually make a $100 contribution to Save the Children, which is a Catholic charity. I would donate more, but I’m disabled and live on very little.
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Most of us do donate to charities to help the poor such as Cross International, Food for the Poor. I also sponsor two children in Unbound, a Catholic organization. Why do you believe no one is helping? Where are you getting that? I’m a senior too and wish I could do more but saying no one is helping is wrong.
 
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