Reflections of.....

[twinclash]

So, back here at home for about 3 weeks now. There are a lot of things that contrast in my mind that I think about constantly - how lucky I am to have been born in America, lucky that in America education is mostly mandatory and not a choice, how thankful I am to have had any choices, period. America is the greatest country on earth - sure we have

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[jrzshore]

When you go to Africa and see the sins of our colonial past - it makes you realize - yes, we have hurt these people and they deserve to be helped - we have an obligation to provide to help these people.

I take huge exception to that. The vast majority of the raping of Africa is by Europe. Hell, I'd say all of it is. And last I checked, we aren't European. And even if you want to pull this bullshit of "well, we're of European descent", we're IRISH, we can't build a boat that goes more than 2 miles off shore, we had NOTHING to do with Africa.

Europe has an obligation to make Africa great. But of course they won't, because deep down they only care about the rest of Europe and no one else. As they've proven for centuries.

And P.S., when you do the mission work, it's not just projects to improve their lives (which is a good thing), you have to go around telling them that it's because of Jesus that they are living in their squalor, and that somehow that should make them happy and convert. That doesn't seem particularly respectful of their culture.

Wow this sounds angry at you. It's not meant to be, really. You're just really frustrating. :)