Members of the league I address thee,
Remember the deeds of Che Guevera and many other who are actually men of virtue, who deserve not your contempt should you or had you known them but the fact is they were mislead. However I admire their courage and commitment. For a cause unbeknownst to them then but known to us now, that Communism does not work, they willingly endured many years in the jungle and slept not on soft pillows but the mattresses lined by leaves. Now for a lost cause these men are willing to suffer why couldn't Christians do the same. Are they better men than us or is it that we do not believe God is real, i.e. we are just saying it? Come on after we finished with Cuba instead of enjoying the fruits of his labours he went to Bolivia where in the ned he got killed. Now he is an atheist but believes in Communism to believe that the world needs Communism and he should do his best to spread it. See even non-Christians can teach us something.
Up to know I have been going on and on about Darfur for quite a while and that was long before it appear in the papers. There a plenty of other conflicts that will not make it to the papers. I am currently experiencing fatigue and that is what everyone experience. After a while all these and conflicts just sink to the bottom of people's consciousness. Remember Somalia? Well they are still fighting that civil war after all these years but you don't see it in the papers anymore. It is not as though people have stopped suffering it is just we people who are privileged get blase. So after all those fundraisers our involvement to help goes no further. I can other places that are experiencing conflict that hardly make it to the pages of the Malaysian newspaper: Ituri in DR Congo, Karen rebellion in Myanmar and there still is a communist insurgency in the Philippines. Haiti is back in trouble again but no one cares that 2 000 have died in the recent hurricane and 300 thousand are homeless and certain politicians are taking advantage to seize power. Somethings happen so often they do not shock us into action even the though the death toll it appalling. Every year hundreds die because of the floods in Bangladesh and many more from the infections as a consequence but who cares anymore it seem to happen from year to year. So people will donate stuff to some faraway place in Sudan but our immediate neighbour is forgotten. Sure there are people like CREST but in terms of consciousness of a situation epople don't seem to care. I guess human nature is such that after a while helplessness sets in and all these are some kind of defensive mechanism but I think Christians drawing strength from God's love should be able to continue caring long after everyone else has stop caring.