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Pious Naivety

If you want a fun little activity during the day, try this.  Scan your social media accounts for the posts about religion that talk about god's love and glory and abundance and how he blesses us all and such.  Find them and simply ask yourself...would this person have the guts to go to Africa where children die by the thousands each year and say this sort of drivel to the people living there in those conditions? Example: "The first act in this positive turnaround is to affirm God as the Great Restorer, who continually brings good out of personal chaos, growth out of pain, and hope out of loss." Are you going to tell a family who is starving and dying of diarrhea due to unclean drinking water to not worry?  Good will come out of this personal chaos!  Hope comes out of loss when your 4th child dies from parasites.  Growth will come out of the AIDS epidemic ravaging your country. Or is it more accurate that these concepts only apply in the western world wher...