What do you think the world needs right now?

Question

Please don't answer "God", "Jesus", "love", or anything religious. What is it that God or religion (or anything else) can BRING to people in this world right now to make it better? As James said, "Faith without works is dead."

Answer 1

A really good $1.00 cigar.

Answer 2

"Everybody's looking for answers." O Brother Where Art Thou.

God has a different answer for everybody. Take 5 minutes out every morning to ask him to tell you what that next step of obedience is, and sit still and LISTEN, and keep listening every morning. Look for subtle confirmations during the days that follow, til you know for sure the direction God is trying to lead you. Then do it. Maybe it's, don't spend so much time on the computer, and get your blessed house cleaned. Or you REALLY need to start the hard work of forgiving that parent who abused you. Or go visit that lonely old great aunt in the nursing home everyone's forgotten about.

If we ask God to guide us in the itty-bitty steps, and we are faithful to obey, "HE WILL WORK *ALL* THINGS TOGETHER FOR GOOD." No matter how frightening, dismal, hopeless "all things" may appear to us. Hallelujah.

Answer 3

Sometimes to gain peace that is just war must proceed it. With the attitudes on both side of the conflicts in the Middle East maybe war is the required birth pain for a fair, free people so emerge from this region. No I haven't given up my faith I still think Christ is the answer to the problems on both sides of this issue but are the people of either camp willing to except Him and do as He commands (To love one another)?

Answer 4

I think we need a good long time out!! Take all the leaders in the world, no matter what group they lead, put them all in seperate rooms without privleges and make them sit there until they can talk and not fight, until they can hold a meeting and not argue or send bombs to another leader. Everyone just needs to agree to disagree on issues and not get so bent out of shape when others don't agree with them. Just because you believe you are right doesn't give you the right to say what someone else believes in wrong. We could all learn something from someone else. Thanks for time to get on my soapbox!! I'll stop now.

Answer 5

The world needs a global paradigm shift toward disrespect for authority.

Abandoning the idea of the state is the best hope for the survival of the human race. The concept of the state is obsolete for most people now that survival is no longer intimately tied to agricultural land.

Answer 6

True- faith w/o works IS dead.

Faith (confidence) in God brings peace to a person's heart. It also promotes charity in a person's heart.

1 Corinthians Chapter 13 provides some insight to why I still think charity (genuine unconditional love and concern for our fellow man) would improve the world tremendously...
V4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her bown, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

In all, charity would eliminate crime, disrespect, wars, etc.... even dishonesty and price gouging!

I personally practice charity by giving others the benefit of the doubt, trying to think kindly of others, trying to be non-judgmental... Yes, I'm still human and therefore I still make mistakes, but I'm working at it.

Answer 7

The "big"mens must open their hearts, must listen to their soul,to their constience,to their hope,to their love,to their belief in God which is dreaming in their soul,all this exists such as the material things, think to them,think that their decision can bring joy or death for all mens from the earth. Mens in each place on the earth ,can't sing,can't dance, can't eat,cant' work with joy,we are all sad because the war.
Read the book "The Bible Code" in which we can see that the mens decision can bring the goodness of the world.One thing can be rezolved in infinite ways,men is that who choices.There are mens who can do facts,others can pray, all must to do something for the goodness of the menkind and TO STOP THE WAR.
There are many great priests and their decisions can bring ,also peace for menkind,they must accept to be built the Cross of Love,tall 738 m(such as the mountain Golgota was),at Dozule,Normandy,France,such as Gos asks to us(read www.jnsr.be/)
To build the Cross is easy,if it will be digging in mountain(a friend gives to me that idea). We must to listen to which God says to us,the menkinds can be without desasters and pains.Such as,at Fatima,afore the second world war, God speaks by our Saint Mother Saint Mary,throw Saint Lucia,for the goodness of menkind,what must the priests to do,they didn't do it,because they needed time to think?!At last they did what our Saint Mary asks them,but after 50 years,after the bed was done. Now the history is repeted,we today, don't listen to what God says to us at Dozule.We must build The Cross of Love at Dozule.We don't lost enything if we will built it,we must give place to God, to Help us,if God Asks for it.God Whants an YES from His priests,too.Dear priests,please say yes,now,not after many years.

Answer 8

I don't think we need it but I think an epidemic is coming and it will prune the population of the world. Maybe it will force everyone to put there guns down for a while and work together to overcome the pandemic

Answer 9

Equality

Answer 10

If they are out there, a visit from a superior race of aliens.

*Seriously*.

We as a global society need a jolt of reality. We need to realize we are flawed, that we aren't the wonderfully special people we think we are.

We need to open our minds to new ideas. Embrace new discoveries. We need to be realistic about our differences and celebrate what we have in common.

We desperately need to grow up as a species.

Answer 11

If you do not want Jesus as an answer, then why did you post your question in the Religion and Spirituality category?