Accountability is a complex thing.
University-educated Westerners have imbibed so much Marxist colonial theory that we find it hard to call many Africans and Asian to task for their flagrant human rights abuses, their murderous and cleptocratic governments, their protracted ethnic strife punctuated by attempts at genocide, and their shameless subjugation of women. Western governments don't call these nations to accountability either because they are too necessary to the world economy or are not necessary at all. Well, we now have the call to dry our eyes and cleanse our minds clouded by romantic notions of far-away places. Moreover, we must never cave in to the ideas that poverty is an excuse for hatred and genocide, that colonialism invites our tolerance of bad government, and that cultural differences justify our silence in the face of bigotry. No more should we allow the rhetoric that Church growth which corresponds to birth rate is an indication of the spiritual superiority of a people.