I 'am Sick & tired of hearing about Muslims,Catholics,& the rest of these Religious Sects that do nothing to feed the World & it's Hungry Children...These Religious People that are in (Power) to change the Face Of Hunger have had every opportunity to do so & yet all they do is claim that theire Religion is better that the rest & in doing & saying so they depend on other Countries to do what they are suppose to do. These Religious Churches are too buisy makeing (BIG MONEY) as they watch Countries like (Africa) go hungry... Please tell me your thoughts on this very sensitive issue.
2006-09-25 13:10:38 · 15 answers · asked by rumeoui 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In your question I didn't see any reason to assume (as some of the other answerers have) you to be an atheist, but apparently you have doubts about organized religion, as do I. While it's true that many hungry people are fed and clothed by religious organizations, it has been my experience that the charities of the churches are mostly after converts, so they can garner more power and wealth. For example, a homeless person in my town cannot eat at the local Rescue Mission if they haven't attended the pre-meal sermon, even if they're only a couple of minutes late.There are many non-religious charities, such as the Bill Gates Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, etc. that need not proseletyze to gain adherents to an ideology as a motivation to help the needy.
Why don't the churches spend more for charity instead of elaborate church buildings, and such? Why do Christians (and everyone else) spend much more at the shopping malls than they do to help the needy? I think that people in general just don't really care about any but themselves and their own loved ones, and as long as they don't need help, people are content to just live their puny lives and (hopefully) go to Heaven when they die.
2006-09-25 13:50:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So tell me...
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? ((Besides complaining on Yahoo!Answers?))
Seems to me, it's the Christians that are out there in the missionary field...and they are feeding the hungry; Along with other religions.
What about the millionaire Atheists? Why can't they also help?
So again, tell me what it is you are doing to help? If you aren't offering solutions, perhaps you are part of the problem.
You know...poverty exists to keep people down. It has to do more with their governments than anything else. If you keep someone uneducated and poor...they can't fight as well or vote for change.
Do we have enough food in the world today to feed everyone? Yes, we do but if we send it to them and their government steals it, keeps it or doesn't distribute until it has gone bad...what are we supposed to do?
Please be a part of the solution and stop complaining about the problem.
2006-09-25 13:14:01 · answer #2 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is so refreshing to read this and thank you for your thoughtful words. However if we were to remove the religious structures from the world, just who would feed the hungry? From the tone of your text I assume that you know the homeless people in your neighbourhood and go out of your way to make sure they get warm rooms in winter and minimal medical attention. But speaking of the wider context of your thesis, would it not make more sense if our respective governments stopped stock piling weapons of mass destruction and paid more attention to the world's poorest people? And would it not make more sense if we stopped buying Coca Cola and Macdonalds and Medicines that have been tested on Third World People.
Your argument is valid, but one fears that you are scape-goating religion when there are far bigger fish to fry.
Shalom.
2006-09-25 13:20:06 · answer #3 · answered by Rabbi Yohanneh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is already enough money and enough food to feed every hungry person in the entire world. The problem is not some religion. The problem is greed, power and all the money wasted on war and weapons.
2006-09-25 13:14:35 · answer #4 · answered by jakejr6 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
interior the vedas and puranas we detect pancha bhoothas inclusive of land, water, hearth, air, akash are the creations of God. Out of the 5, the land additionally a creation of God. The land supplies us nutrition interior the style of grains. so, in gratitude of Him, we are doing selections say Nyvedya and it is barely a thank you interior the style of gratitude. we've many examples to this.Sri Pandarinatha time-honored the nutrition presented with the help of Namadeva. The God Ganesa took nutrition in individual the nutrition presented with the help of Tirunaraiyur Nambiandan Nambi. Indians make an offering of nutrition to the Lord and later partake of it as Prasaada - a holy present from the Lord. In our on a regular basis ritualistic worship (pooja) too we furnish Naivedyam (nutrition) to the Lord. The Lord is all-powerful and omniscient. guy is a factor, collectively as the Lord is the totality. All that we do is with the help of His power and understanding on my own. for this reason what we acquire in existence as a results of our movements is unquestionably His on my own. We nicely known this in the process the act of offering nutrition to Him. it is exemplified with the help of the Hindi words "Tera Tujko Arpan"- I furnish what's Yours to You. Thereafter it extremely is resembling His present to us, graced with the help of His divine touch. understanding this, our entire physique of thoughts to nutrition and the act of ingesting ameliorations. The nutrition presented will for sure be organic and the main suitable. We proportion what we get with others earlier ingesting it. we don't call for, ***** or criticise the everyday of the nutrition we get.
2016-10-01 08:55:53 · answer #5 · answered by schugmann 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are talking out your NECK! The world gives more than enough to help, but it is embezzeled and squandered, if not
outright stolen.
As far as the world DUMPING on religion. Where you have you
been the last millenium? That's what the world has always done.
2006-09-25 13:15:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If people did not steal the money for religion - they'd steal it through taxes, or some other way.
People are mistreated because people want them to be.
Why, I do not know.
Well, possibly people get high on the power over others.
(not high like drugs... )
Humans are here for such a short time, that power is very intence, and it is true: power corrupts.
Sorry...
2006-09-25 13:18:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians give money to support the poor and homeless. I support an orphanage in Africa and a local homeless shelter with real money. Amazing, huh?
2006-09-25 13:15:27 · answer #8 · answered by TubeDude 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stop!
Go do a google on how much Religious movements have given to the poor and needy.
Your talk is so cheap and mouthy!!!
2006-09-25 13:14:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Salvation Army is a Christian Denomination dedicated to feeding, clothing, and sheltering the needy.
2006-09-25 13:12:50 · answer #10 · answered by travis_a_duncan 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋