{"id":331,"date":"2005-08-26T10:07:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T10:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=325"},"modified":"2005-08-26T10:07:36","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T10:07:36","slug":"824058","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"8\/24\/058\/"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now heading diagonally back to Ohio on Hwy 80.   I was interviewed by Chris Marcheso of the <em>Fort Morgan (CO) Times <\/em>yesterday.  I told him that a big part of the reason Third World poverty exists is because priests and minisiters in &#8216;First World Countries&#8217; (America, Canada, many European countries&#8230;) are not graphically talking about all the abject poverty in places like Haiti, Uganda, Biafra&#8230;, and in tandem, exhorting their congregations to dramatically sacrifice and help much more, because, simply:  &#8220;nine times out of 10, these (spiritual) leaders are very comfortable themselves and are not motivated to encourage sacrifice.&#8221;  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  After a talk I gave at Xavier University during Campaign 2004, I addressed this issue.  Afterward, a priest approached me and said Pope John Paul II had said the Western World and the Third World were playing out the gospel parable of:  &#8220;The rich man and Lazzarus &#8212; the beggar at the gate.&#8221;  The cliff note:  The rich man is indifferent to Lazzarus, and the rich man ends up in Hell as a result&#8230; <strong>Note 2: <\/strong> To contemporize this parable a bit more:  Compared to most of the Third World, most of us in America are: &#8220;rich&#8221; &#8212; no matter what our arbitrary American categories say are: &#8220;rich, upper middle class, middle class&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now heading diagonally back to Ohio on Hwy 80. I was interviewed by Chris Marcheso of the Fort Morgan (CO) Times yesterday. I told him that a big part of the reason Third World poverty exists is because <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=331\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}