Let Them Die and

Decrease the Surplus Population

What if your children came running in and said that your next door neighbors were starving to death. They asked, “Can we help?”
Perhaps you would quickly respond with some food from your pantry as well as hurrying to the grocery store and purchasing food stuffs for your neighbors. And when you went over to deliver your help, you saw that indeed your neighbors were starving to death. I suggest that your conscience could not allow you some of the luxuries you were accustomed to while the knowledge of your neighbor’s plight was fresh in your mind.
You see, the proximity of that crisis demanded your help and even your immediate sacrifice. Who could turn a deaf ear to such a need?
But that need, as well as many others, exists in reality around the world. So in effect, it is the proximity of such a need that elicits our response. And if people are starving to death outside the boundaries of our own neighborhood, then we are comfortable with our inaction. And indeed, the local church can, with a clear conscience, borrow millions of dollars to build buildings in which to meet now and again, while millions starve to death without the knowledge of Christ.
But at least we can claim to be against the prosperity message.