A Pulitzer-Winning Photographer's Suicide
Farai Chideya talks to Dan Krauss, the director of The Death of Kevin Carter, an Oscar-nominated documentary about the life, work and suicide of a Pulitzer-prize winning South African photojournalist.
Carter's winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving child collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine in the Sudan in 1993. In the background, a vulture stalks the emaciated child.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...
2007-02-17 22:22:31 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
And if not now, when?”
Ethics of the Fathers 1:14 – Hillel
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is that good people do nothing.”
British statesman Edmund Burke
Indifference in the face of evil is complicity with evil.
We are God’s hands and feet.
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2007-02-18 00:59:17 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't scapegoat God.
Corruption and incompetence are two of the chief reasons why there's so much poverty and starvation in Africa.
God is not guilty of either the corruption or the incompetence.
You're blaming God for something that He didn't do. You're blaming God for something that people have done.
Oh, by the way, did you ever stop to wonder if the Pulitzer Prize winning photographer bothered to help the starving kid who was just a few feet away from him? Maybe offer the child something to eat or drink?
Or is blaming God for bad things more fashionable than asking such common-sense questions?
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2007-02-18 06:34:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the beginning God completely sustained His creation without blemish. That’s why it was perfect. He held every atom together in a perfect state. He kept the planets in their orbits. He kept animals from tripping and breaking their necks. He did not allow people to suffer and die.
Deuteronomy 8:4 gives us a little glimpse of how things might have been in the original creation. “Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.” God is omnipotent and perfectly capable of sustaining and protecting his creation.
When Adam sinned, however, the Lord cursed the universe. In essence there was a change and along with that change God seemingly took away a little bit of his sustaining power and allowed things like suffering and death into His creation. Now He permits bad things to happen—and this is a reminder that sin has consequences and that the world needs a Savior. Romans 8:22 says, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”

God took pleasure in all of His creation ("http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=revelation+4:11&version=NKJV"), but He loved people most of all. He allowed the created universe to deteriorate so we would see the consequences of our sin. If we did not see the consequences of our sin, we would never see that we need salvation from our sin, and we would never accept His offer of mercy for our sin. Most people easily recognize that there is a problem in the world. This can be used to show them that there is one who has overcome this problem of death and suffering—Jesus Christ.
2007-02-18 21:22:01 · answer #3 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are you blaming God? You live in America, one of the richest countries in the world. Father God promised you great blessings if you would help the poor of the world. Let go of some of your cash and help and stop blaming God. Another thought, why didn't the heartless photojournalist pick the child up and take it to the feeding center. Talk about man's inhumanity to man.
2007-02-18 06:36:15 · answer #4 · answered by martha d 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well if we lived in a perfect world, we certainly could expect perfect things...but since we are no longer in the garden of eden, and certainly not in a perfect world, stuff like that happens. The real question should have been, how could Carter, or you or thw world allow things like this to happen? Is it because we are too greedy to feed people? Don't blame God, blame yourself.
2007-02-18 07:06:46 · answer #5 · answered by T. B. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Couldn't get the link to work, but I am familiar with the story. Had the photographer had "faith" would that have made a difference? I doubt it.
But, hey! God works in mysterious ways, right? Like that tsunami and the 230,000 people he killed. It's all part of the plan!
2007-02-18 06:27:47 · answer #6 · answered by Brendan G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God allows evil me to have free will just as He does good men.
It is a shame that the condition in the Sudan exists, but it is not because of God, it is because of the corruption that exists in Sudan.
The Janjaweed, translated devils on horseback, are responsible for the deplorable conditions in Sudan, and they are Muslims.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict
All those who are concerned should get on their knees and ask God to do something with the genocide that is going on in Sudan.
grace2u
2007-02-18 06:35:16 · answer #7 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God didn't allow this. It was done by man and man sat by and did nothing to correct it. As for suicide, that's a dumb and permanent solution to a temporary problem. These problems can be solved if people would just care.
2007-02-18 06:27:51 · answer #8 · answered by djm749 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People are brutally Murdered raped and tortured in a sinful world..Did you mistake our sinful world for the kingdom of God?
2007-02-18 06:37:44 · answer #9 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
through out ages god has allowed suffering its possible u dont read bible wen u talk of god.
its an age old question but any understanding of god starts with the god being that of world w much suffering in it
2007-02-18 06:30:49 · answer #10 · answered by rostov 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋