Hipocrisy in Faith...

I sent the following to the Editor or our local paper, but since they probably won't publish it, am publishing it here. It looks like no one has hit on my Blog as yet, so probably no one will read it here, either. I'll feel better though. It was cathartic to write it and send it off! .....

To the editor:

In the lower right corner of “Cartoon Corner” in your March 26 Op Ed pages is a cartoon that says it all. It is a tiny cartoon, tiny by comparison to the top cartoon that has a groom promising his bride death by starvation in an elegant church setting. A box in black with a world globe turned to Africa and a dialogue balloon asking “What’s a feeding tube” points out the hypocrisy of American thought on moral issues of the day. The very size of the cartoon (which of course fits nicely into the space) says something about our priorities. The cartoonist, Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader, has hit on what should be the priority of all Christians who, at one time or another, must have heard that The Lord told his followers to “feed my lambs.” Note the plural, please. Seen any emergency congressional or presidential actions taken lately to feed starving children and adults at home and abroad?

When millions are starving world wide, and most Americans pay more attention to one unfortunate woman dying in Florida than to pictures of hundreds of malnourished African babies dying because they can’t be fed, it is hypocrisy. I, too, am a Christian, and a believer in the right to life. But only when I am sure that all of those praying for the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube have sent at least a dollar to Food for the Poor or the Food Bank will I retract my opinion, and publicly eat the paper it is written on.

Joel