To Whom does one spread The Good News
By suspenseful
@suspenseful (40192)
Canada
December 7, 2008 1:46pm CST
I was thinking about this, when I got the free Christian newspaper that we get once a week and that goes to all the churches in Manitoba. It had an article about a Somali family that now got citizenship, an article about Obama, an article about helping the Aboriginal homeless, and about preaching in a multicultural society, but then I thought about an article I saw online that England has now surpassed the States in its abortion rate and the rest of Europe as well as Canada also have high abortion percentage. I then thought about the end of the Roman Empire where people were either not having children or having less. It seemed to be connected.
Perhaps this desire to get rid of children is about having no hope. We do send missionaries to Asia, to Africa, to the places where the population has dark skin, where the woman have veils, but what about the places where the people are so lacking in hope that they will actually kill the children in their womb?
It is not for money, the people in Africa and Asia are poor yet they still desire children. So why is there no hope for Europe and Great Britain for those of European extraction? Is not a man and a woman in London who have blond hair and blue eyes have as much need to hear the gospel as does someone who emigrated from the Southern Sahara?
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@murderistic (2278)
• United States
11 Dec 08
You have to look at the reasons behind families in poor countries wanting children. The more children they have, the more people in their family they will have to work for them, help keep up the house, and support them when they are too old to work. In the West, parents work and send money to their children. It is expensive to have children, it doesn't pay. In Africa and other poor nations, children work for their parents. Almost every person I know that has come to the US, whether it be for work or for school, is working and sending money to their parents and their brothers and sisters. High rates of abortion in the west has everything to do with economics and social standards, such as the equality of women...
Not making an argument for or against abortion (because I'm against it) but I really don't think a loss of hope has ANYTHING to do with it.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
11 Dec 08
Many people in the west seem to think that the less children the better, but considering most are white, does not seem that they are killing their future? Some of my friends have five or more children and they are white, and their kids are not living in rags. In fact, their kids are very responsible, when they are old enough, they help by delivering fliers, like the older ones take the younger ones out, and the younger one just leaves a flier on the doorstep, then they go to paper routes, and take part time jobs, but when the parents think that children are a burden, they just give them an allowance and say they do not have to do anything. When the kid says "I want to deliver papers," or "Can I go out and pick strawberries this summer
' the parents say, "it is too hard, we just want you to have fun" etc. So the reason there is not that many children is partly the parent's fault in not allowing the child to be a little responsible.
@slickcut (8140)
• United States
8 Dec 08
All people are in need of the gospel..I think we need more missionaires in these countries but according to the missionaries i have seen and heard them talk,they say they go where God sends them,so i am not sure why they are not going to all these countries..
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
9 Dec 08
We do have a magazine or booklet that talks about the mission over in Eastern Europe, Romania, the Ukraine, and even in places where one never expects like in Scotland, England, and Wales. Yet when one thinks about missionaries, one thinks about places such as Africa or China. Yet I am sure that there are many in Europe who are dying to hear the news, but society thinks that they do not look poor or exotic enough.
@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
8 Dec 08
Abortion is illegal in some countries and that usually has something to do with religion. Whilst the European people have few children and lots of abortions happen families in Africa and Asia often have many children. A family in the Philippines might have six children whilst a family in China will only have one child. A family in France might have 2 children whilst a family in the Gambia might have 8 children. I think abortion is sad. The missionaries wanted to spread their religion.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
9 Dec 08
People think that the ones in Africa need more help, but why not the ones in Europe? I know abortion is something to do with it, but I was reading articles about the horror when that Planned Parenthood is setting up abortion clinics in Harlem and the lower class black communities, but I was wondering why there was no horror when they set them up in the white communities. It is like they are sending a message that one ethnic group deserves to be reduced while another deserved to be increased. And we all know how much people are up in arms when a Chinese lady is grabbed by the authorities and forced to have an abortion, but is all right when an American-German or an English girl is escorted to the abortion clinic? Why is all right to protest according to race?
@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
7 Dec 08
Everyone should be evangelize about the consequences of abortion. You're right, I came from Asia and population in our country is bigger than Europe and America. Because our government has a strong campaign against abortion. But are pushing family planning to control population explosion.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
8 Dec 08
I am afraid that when it comes to Europe, there is the don't care. Maybe it is because of the Nazis and the so called Aryan master race, but it seems that people use any excuse or are ashamed to have children. It is if we are singled out as the evil white people fated to be exterminated.
