Cities in Crisis - Awake 8 2001
'The growing number of street children is heartrending evidence of the deep poverty that exists in the cities of the developing world. According to some estimates, there are as many as 30 million street children worldwide! Says the book Mega-city Growth and the Future:" Poverty and other problems have eroded family ties so that street children have been forced to fend for themselves." Such children often eke out a miserable existence by scavenging, begging, or doing menial work at local markets.'- (page 5)
Any answers for these afflicted ones from the article? Well I tried straining through the article to find some 'good news' for such ones. If you thought that the article would never advocate financially assisting such ones you would be quite right! It quotes someone or other 'There is a wistful myth that if only we had enough money to spend…we could wipe out our slums..' and then the article went onto say 'But if money is not the solution, what is?…….The answer……'People must be helped to make dramatic changes in their thinking and behaviour.'
So these ones who 'eke out a miserable existence by scavenging, begging' can have their problems solved by changing their 'thinking and behaviour'? You are kidding me……but then the article accepted that also by saying 'Effecting such sweeping change is clearly beyond the capability of humans.'
Then in a perverse fashion the ultimate solution is handed out to such ones….
'City dwellers the world over can thus take comfort in the Bible promise recorded at Revelation 11:18, that God will "bring to ruin those ruining the earth."….No longer will millions live in unimaginable poverty, deprived of proper housing and basic sanitation, deprived of dignity, or deprived of hope.'
I wonder if any taking those magazines really know what that means to them…..
Yes the solution for the 30 million or so street children is not to offer monetary assistance , its not to support preventive programmes for the education of the children, or to encourage major corporations to offer financial aid to projects and employment to street children.
No the WTS answer is to do absolutely nothing until the whole 30 million street kids get wiped out by the WTS God because only then will they no longer live 'in unimaginable poverty' etc……..because they would have been destroyed forever.
ISP