RE: What If? Jesus' Words Conflict With Our Deeds

Jesus told us that the nations of the world will be judged by how well they respond to the needs of the poor. Yet even though many individual U.S. Christians are generous, our government gives away less than two-tenths of one percent of our gross national product to help the poor nations of the world. In the meantime, Americans consume more than 40 percent of the world's resources.

Let me get this straight: Liberals want any mention of God out of government, but they want the government to live by Christian principles and give more to the poor??? Helping the poor is best left to individuals giving time & money to groups that are directly involved in helping the poor.

What if U.S. Christians did what Jesus told us to do and loved our enemies? What if we followed his directive to do good to those who would hurt us?... They call for a justice system that demands an "eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," even though it flies in the face of Jesus' teaching. And when America goes to war (allegedly for defensive reasons), they are the ones most convinced that God is on our side - despite the fact that Jesus called for a radical love of enemies that would warrant our "turning the other cheek."

This one is easy: We would be dead. I'm not in the mood to love Osama Bin Laden. Let's get real here... We turned the other cheek for 20 plus years and see what that got us: 9-11.

Suppose Jesus' words had been the foundation of our policy in Iraq over the past 10 years, instead of an embargo that contributed to the deaths of 500,000 children.

Or leave the government out of it: What if U.S. churches had marshaled their vast resources and sent the needed food and medicine to the children of Iraq, in defiance of our government's orders? Might we have undermined the propaganda and authority of Saddam Hussein?

So it's America's fault??? The embargo didn't cover food & medicine. It was Saddam who starved the children... It wasn't an US embargo that did it.