PAY ATTENTION:
An average of 8500 people die from HIV/AIDS every day.
Every day.
That would mean an average of 2-3.1 million people die every year.
Children are left orphaned.
They bury their own mothers at 2-3 yrs. old.
Why? Easy: AIDS.
Why? Injustice.
Why? Because too many people don't care.
And it's not just because people don't have morals.
Mothers with 9 children, 5 of them not even being their own because their parents already died of AIDS, have to feed those children. But a lot of them don't have jobs. The only way to get food is to buy it; what little is actually available to purchase. With no education and a staggering illiteracy rate, mothers have two options: sell themselves for sex or let their children starve. So these women have sex for money with different men. These men have HIV. Then the women get it. Everyone that these men sleep with gets HIV. Every man that these women sleep with gets HIV. Every child these women have gets HIV. Why? They're trying to feed their children. They're trying to survive.
It's not that they don't know what's right and what's wrong.
They do.
There's just also larger issues.
And where's the church? Where's the church in America? As a majority, does it really care?
Probably not.
I like what Bono says. He calls the American Church the "sleeping giant."
For once, can we make that statement false?
May 30, 2007
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