So overall I think that Christianity accepts rich people as long as they don’t devote too much of their life to it and that their main focus is on God.
A ii)
There is need for world development at the moment, mainly as the gap between rich and poor is growing and is already at a alarming rate. At the moment there are some alarming facts that the world needs to face up to.
In America they spend 8 Billion Us Dollars on Cosmetics when 6 Billion is needed for basic education. 11 Billion is spent on Ice Cream in Europe when only 9 Billion is needed for water and sanitation for all. The amount of money spent on perfumes in Europe and the United States in 12 Billion, exactly the same amount as needed for women’s reproductive health. In 1992 the ratio of wealth between the richest and the poorest countries is 72 to 1 up from 3 to 1 in 1820. This is part of the massive split we are seeing between rich countries and poor countries even though we both need each other so much. Malawi is the poorest country in the world but is also one of our major tobacco suppliers. Over a quarter of British adults smoke that’s about 13 million people who rely on tobacco crops and we spend 50 Billion dollars in Europe on tobacco products and yet Malawi is still the poorest country after producing 124.7 million kilogram’s of tobacco in 2001 alone. There is also major diseases going round which could be avoided, especially Aids, at the moment in Africa there are many falsities going round about aids and it’s cures including sleeping with virgins (which can lead to rapes of girls as young as 2) where if everyone got the truth in Africa through simple basic education then there would be massive prevention of Aids, also if we helped mothers with Aids it could also prevent aids getting to the next generation, at the moment the medicine needed to stop Aids getting from mother to baby during birth can not be afforded by African Government and even the lucky mothers who get the medicine pass on Aids through breastfeeding as they cant afford milk powder. This could all be avoided if the MEDC’s (more economically developed countries) supported the LEDC’s (Less economically developed countries) into developing economically and socially.
Aiii) Tearfund is a Christian charity which has a vision to unite the world in peace. Sharing processions with those who need them (just like the early church…see Ai) and transform the lives of people who live in poverty or illness. Tearfund has a real vision to change the way we see the world, as we see the world as a place of pain, suffering, war and illness and with very little joy. Tearfund wants to consume that and expand that little bit of hope and spread it across Britain and across the world.
Tearfund started in 1960 when donations were made to missionaries working with refugees, this money was marked EAR Fund (Evangelical Alliance Refugee Fund). In its first year open to the public to donate (1968/69) Tearfund (still named EAR Fund) got £34,000 but annual donations got to 1 million in just 6 years and in 2004/05 Tearfund got a whopping £50 million. This money is used in two ways, one is for emergency support for people in need (e.g. the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and the 1976 earthquake in Guatemala). The other money was used was to fund projects worldwide to help spread love and help to communities living with poverty and teaching them how to survive and giving them the word of the lord.
Another part of Tearfund is helping to campaign to government for laws or help to end problems which they have found. The most famous campaign they made was Make Poverty History where many people wore bands to show support and many rallies took place in London and other places. Tearfund has a newsletter which is sent out to remind people to include countries in need in our thoughts and prayers.
B)
“There should be no rich people as long as there is poverty in the world”
I think that in a perfect world everyone would be worth the same and everyone would be able to eat when they needed and have enough clothes but we live in a world of greed and deceitfulness and envy, that’s what makes us human, I think that some rich people are amazing people and they give a lot of money to the poor and I think that they should be rewarded and yeah there are those people who don’t give any money to the poor and live in luxury however I don’t think that we should force people to give money to the poor as that would end up as communism and as we have unluckily found out really doesn't work.
However, as I mentioned earlier about how in the book of acts it says that people shared their belongings and food so that everyone would be able to survive, if we were able to unite people or communities we could encourage them to share with and support each other in the community, if we were able to encourage this I think it would be possible to be able to combat poverty. It is also says in Mark 9:23 that “Everything is possible for him who believes” So technically we could hope for an equal world and God could make that possible.
So overall I do agree with that sentence but I just fail to see how to make it possible. I think many people would agree with me too apart from certain people who are probably rich people who think it is their right to have lots of money and they worked for it so therefore they deserve the money which is a quite good point. However I think that no-one rich has ever worked as hard as some people do work in other countries either making clothes or growing crops and yet they don’t get that money they are entitled to.
