Eye For Sale, By Owner
A wire service report this week showed a single mother in
Bangladesh who had advertised to sell one of her eyes to buy
food for her starving daughter.
Try to think about that without your blood running cold: human
beings selling parts of themselves as a final act of
desperation. And that woman is only one of the hundreds of
thousands who are slowly starving to death each day.
What happened to the concert fundraisers for Bangladesh,
Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa? Have we exhausted our capacity to
care and to give? Have we become numb to the plight of millions
because the problems are so overwhelming that we don't know
where to start?
We burn down the rainforests, clear the jungles, despoil the
environment so that we can create new soil-poor farms to feed
more mouths. There are just too, too many of us but our leaders
ignore the problem at the root of the world's burgeoning
troubles: overpopulation.
And in Rome, the new Pope will continue the traditional church
doctrine against contraception. How ironic that the horsemen:
death, disease, famine, and pestilence, should be loosed on the
world by the City of Faith.