In the other world, three billion people with zero net worth go to bed hungry at night. Our culture chooses to ignore the poor, pretend they do not exist. Today, we care more about the rights of animals than we do the poor. Our evangelical Christian culture is not much better on this issue. We don't even begin to look on the poor with as great concern and passion as we look on the unborn.
Abortion is a tragic distortion of the concept of human freedom.
But the overwhelming health and political issue in most of the world today is the billions of people who live in desperate poverty that robs them of their dignity, and their very humanity. There is an illuminating passage in the Apostle Paul's letter to the Galatians in which he describes how he, Barnabas and Titus sought the approval and blessing of the leaders of the early church in Jerusalem for the work they were doing among the gentiles. The only litmus test the leaders of the early church imposed on Paul and his companions in their work was that they should remember the poor. We would never consider paying someone else to believe in Jesus Christ for us. The only litmus test the leaders of the early church imposed on Paul and his companions in their work was that they should remember the poor.