RE: The Lord's Resistance Army and Joseph Kony
October 7, 2010 at 9:39 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2010 at 9:49 pm by A Theist.)
Quote:Yeah, try getting food, clean water, medicine and doctors into Sudan. It's not going to happen. If the people were educated, they could handle that without outside help.
...and how do you plan to get schools and teachers into the Sudan?
Shell B Wrote:Which is precisely why it is nearly impossible to help them. Their governments stop us from helping them, as if anybody's really helping them.
If you can't get food, clean water, medicine and doctors past their governments, you're not going to get schools and teachers past them either.
Quote:You don't think those things could be dealt with through proper education? It may not happen tomorrow, but it would happen in the next generation, which is better than the outlook now... I think I prefer education.
...before or after they starve to death, or die from disease? I don't think that they can wait until tommorrow or beyond.
Quote:Famine is very often a direct result of war. It's rather difficult to produce food in a war-torn country.
I don't believe you're going to have much luck getting schools built in a war torn country either.
(October 7, 2010 at 7:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Good grief. A Pentecostal Christian agrees with me.There goes the neighborhood.
This can be such a strange board, sometimes.
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