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from http:(2slsh)isbushantichrist.blogspot.com
The American corporate media covered President Chavez's speech at the UN in typically twisted and facile manner. I was offended that certain 'liberal democrats' were offended because "he called my president a devil." Give me a break! #1 Bush is the devil. #2 He was never legitimately elected president of anything #3 he acts more like a dictator than a lawful president. #4 Bush says the same about other world leaders and 'evil empires' all the time.
Furthermore, I have absolutely no doubt that it did smell like sulfur at the UN, because I smell the same thing every time he flies into my state (California). Fortunately, he only drops by occasionally, to pick up more campaign cash (bribes), and never stays very long. But the odor lingers - a combination of mendacity, greed, lawlessness, arrogance, torture, oil, blood and death.
Chavez talked about "a new, strong movement has been born, a movement of the south." But what was he talking about exactly, and what does that have to do with the devil? Most Americans thought he was joking, only because they don't understand or care about what's going on in the rest of the world.
In 1900, 80% of people identifying as Christians worldwide were either Europeans or North Americans. But today, 60% of all Christians are citizens of Africa, Asia or Latin America. It is estimated that by 2050, only 1 in 5 Christians will be a non-Latino white person of European decent. 'Christianity is no longer a white man's religion,' says Larry Eskridge of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals. 'It's been claimed by others.'
But what we have today is not a unified body of Christ, with each supplying what the other lacks, as Paul envisioned. We have each side enhancing both what they have and what they lack through the destructive and evil influence of one over the other: First world Christians continue enhancing their material advantages at the expense of the poor, as well as increasing their spiritual delusions, manifested by the religious right. Meanwhile, third- world Christians are often growing more desperately poor, while at the same time becoming much more numerous and spiritually vibrant. Phillip Jenkins, in The Next Christendom - The Coming of Global Christianity, writes, "Christianity is flourishing wonderfully among the poor and persecuted, while it atrophies among the rich and secure....If it is not exactly a faith based upon the experience of poverty and persecution, then at least it regards these things as normal and expected elements of life."
It's impossible to be part of the body of Christ, and not have a genuine and active feeling for the poor, the sick, the oppressed and the hungry around the world. If our head aches, or our stomach is empty, or the lash is applied to our own back, we feel it. Because it is a part of our body, we can feel it, and our entire attention is focused on that part of our body which is in pain, to somehow alleviate that pain and confront any injustice that may have caused it.
It is the same in the body of Christ - the attention of those Christians who are well off, who are affluent, who have health care, private schools, and are living in the lap of luxury, must at least be focused upon those in the body who are still in pain, or demonstrate by their selfishness and complacency that they have no part in the body of Christ. If there is no absolute requirement that all Christians give up everything and live a life of poverty and deprivation, there is a minimal requirement that Christians seriously address the pain and injustice of those who do. To live a life effectively cut off from any real concern for the others in the body of Christ - and especially those in the southern hemisphere - is to live in a very real and practical denial of body of Christ as it exists in the world today. It no longer matters who or what you confess with your mouth.[...]
from http:(2slsh)isbushantichrist.blogspot.com
The American corporate media covered President Chavez's speech at the UN in typically twisted and facile manner. I was offended that certain 'liberal democrats' were offended because "he called my president a devil." Give me a break! #1 Bush is the devil. #2 He was never legitimately elected president of anything #3 he acts more like a dictator than a lawful president. #4 Bush says the same about other world leaders and 'evil empires' all the time.
Furthermore, I have absolutely no doubt that it did smell like sulfur at the UN, because I smell the same thing every time he flies into my state (California). Fortunately, he only drops by occasionally, to pick up more campaign cash (bribes), and never stays very long. But the odor lingers - a combination of mendacity, greed, lawlessness, arrogance, torture, oil, blood and death.
Chavez talked about "a new, strong movement has been born, a movement of the south." But what was he talking about exactly, and what does that have to do with the devil? Most Americans thought he was joking, only because they don't understand or care about what's going on in the rest of the world.
In 1900, 80% of people identifying as Christians worldwide were either Europeans or North Americans. But today, 60% of all Christians are citizens of Africa, Asia or Latin America. It is estimated that by 2050, only 1 in 5 Christians will be a non-Latino white person of European decent. 'Christianity is no longer a white man's religion,' says Larry Eskridge of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals. 'It's been claimed by others.'
But what we have today is not a unified body of Christ, with each supplying what the other lacks, as Paul envisioned. We have each side enhancing both what they have and what they lack through the destructive and evil influence of one over the other: First world Christians continue enhancing their material advantages at the expense of the poor, as well as increasing their spiritual delusions, manifested by the religious right. Meanwhile, third- world Christians are often growing more desperately poor, while at the same time becoming much more numerous and spiritually vibrant. Phillip Jenkins, in The Next Christendom - The Coming of Global Christianity, writes, "Christianity is flourishing wonderfully among the poor and persecuted, while it atrophies among the rich and secure....If it is not exactly a faith based upon the experience of poverty and persecution, then at least it regards these things as normal and expected elements of life."
It's impossible to be part of the body of Christ, and not have a genuine and active feeling for the poor, the sick, the oppressed and the hungry around the world. If our head aches, or our stomach is empty, or the lash is applied to our own back, we feel it. Because it is a part of our body, we can feel it, and our entire attention is focused on that part of our body which is in pain, to somehow alleviate that pain and confront any injustice that may have caused it.
It is the same in the body of Christ - the attention of those Christians who are well off, who are affluent, who have health care, private schools, and are living in the lap of luxury, must at least be focused upon those in the body who are still in pain, or demonstrate by their selfishness and complacency that they have no part in the body of Christ. If there is no absolute requirement that all Christians give up everything and live a life of poverty and deprivation, there is a minimal requirement that Christians seriously address the pain and injustice of those who do. To live a life effectively cut off from any real concern for the others in the body of Christ - and especially those in the southern hemisphere - is to live in a very real and practical denial of body of Christ as it exists in the world today. It no longer matters who or what you confess with your mouth.[...]
