I love gospel music. I don't believe in God, but I love good gospel music.
In pursuit of this love I sometimes flip through the "Christian" stations on my cable.
There is one show where the people all sit on these very ornate gilded chairs and ask for money. The lady on the show has pink hair, all ratted up and down to her shoulders. She wears 8 pairs of false eyelashes that she cakes with mascara. She cries and cries and lifts her hands in the air whining "Jesus, thank you lord".
This show has videos of her going to African countries where children are dying from hunger. She gives them dolls. She wants people to send her money so she can give starving children dolls.
I have fed hungry neighbors and friends for years. I have worked tirelessly to help women with their employment issues so that they can take care of their families. I have furnished apartments for battered women trying to start over again. I bring clothes and new underwear to a homeless services place where homeless people can take showers and need clean clothes afterwards.
But one thing I would never do is sit in an ornate chair with pink hair and pray for money for dolls.
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I share your disgust over those who can't seem to see human suffering staring them in the face. Please, these people need everything necessary for human survival, and while providing that, they need a system for solving the problems that brought them to misery. Dolls are for children who are fed, clothed and sheltered. I've spent a great deal of time trying to understand people who seem to fear truly recognizing human need and pain, who seem to empathize, but not to the point of actually helping.
If a god exists, why are people like the pink lady, who probably means well (or maybe not?) seemingly stuck on stupid?
can't imagine people donating to her
Unless it was Halloween.
Thats just crazy if people send this woman money.
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What a puzzlement.
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As always I can not stop from laughing when I read your articles, in a good way. It's amazing the hypocrisy of of the ignorant, and worse yet the educated. To dress in the latest fashions, to sit on a gilded throne, spewing out words of rhetoric always gets my goat. A barbie, that's it. That will fill their stomaches. Maybe playing with blond hair blue eyed dolls will lesson the pain of starvation. I laugh at Sally Struthers when she goes to Africa with her fingers adorned with gems and gold and pleading for food. In correlation I wrote an article about diamonds and death, and I am still aghast with my mouth wide open when I watch an "eternity" diamonds commercial.