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To: RetiredNow who wrote (552459)	2/28/2010 5:49:20 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1573249

What’s the largest U.S.-based international relief and development organization? It’s not Save the Children, and it’s not CARE — both terrific secular organizations. Rather, it’s World Vision, a Seattle-based Christian organization (with strong evangelical roots) .... Doesn't surprise me a bit. Mr. Stearns argues that evangelicals were often so focused on sexual morality and a personal relationship with God that they ignored the needy. He's making a mistake to think they're contradictory. He writes laceratingly about “a Church that had the wealth to build great sanctuaries but lacked the will to build schools, hospitals, and clinics.” Churches do build schools, hospitals and clinics. In one striking passage, Mr. Stearns quotes the prophet Ezekiel as saying that the great sin of the people of Sodom wasn’t so much that they were promiscuous or gay as that they were “arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.” (Ezekiel 16:49.) Verse 50 says "They were haughty and did detestable things before me." The bulk of the chapter deals with prostitution .... though its likely prostitution is used as a metaphor for religous disloyalty.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (552459)	3/1/2010 12:26:39 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573249

I'd like to add some comments about that article. 1) Its really a strain to read Ez. 16 as a call to back off on sexual morality issues. The theme there is using sexual morality (whoring, prostitution) as a metaphor for unfaithfulness to God. 2) Its also a contradiction to call for backing off on sexual morality to do more for AIDS victims - it is after all, primarily spread by illicit sexual activity. I'd suggest Stearns think about that some more.