{"id":758,"date":"2007-12-13T15:32:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=193"},"modified":"2007-12-13T15:32:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:32:30","slug":"121307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"12\/13\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

The front page of the NY Times<\/em> carried a piece on the worsening situation in the Congo. \u00a0 A Civil War in the Congo, which ended in 2003 (and was the bloodiest in modern African war), is heating up again. \u00a0 There is now the beginning of heavy fighting and scores of people are being displaced. \u00a0 The article said much of the war is over a “quest to control unusually rich minerals and farmlands.” \u00a0 What the article doesn’t say is that many of us in America are complicit. \u00a0 That is, these resources, while “rich,” are limited <\/em>in Africa. \u00a0 If we had cut back on our lifestyles in America, in tandem with, say, scaling back tremendously on things like the Defense Budget, we could have mobilized so much more help to allow people in the Congo to be as sustainable as possible — so they don’t have to fight over their limited resources.<\/em> \u00a0 During a talk at Baldwin Wallace College recently, \u00a0I said \u00a0it is my belief God gave us an abundance in America to help, not hoard. \u00a0 What we do now foreign affairs wise, church \u00a0outreach wise (the average Christian tithes approximately 3%), \u00a0is a pittance in comparison to how much we really<\/em> could help. \u00a0 And I don’t think this is lost on God, for a minute. \u00a0 It’s just that we \u00a0have a hard time connecting the dots spiritually. \u00a0 However, once we know… Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 “Several weeks ago, Time Magazine<\/em> did a Special Report<\/strong> titled: America by the Numbers<\/em>. \u00a0 The following is a set of some of those numbers: “The vast majority of Americans believe in God, and more than 90% own a Bible, but only half can name a single Gospel, and 10% think Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.” \u00a0 \u00a0 –That simply amazed me. \u00a0 I mean, I thought everyone <\/em>knew Joan was his sister. \u00a0 Whoops…<\/em> There goes my conservative supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The front page of the NY Times carried a piece on the worsening situation in the Congo. \u00a0 A Civil War in the Congo, which ended in 2003 (and was the bloodiest in modern African war), is heating up again. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}