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1.02.2005

Bono's American Prayer

This is the defining moral issue of our time.

This is a defining moment for us: For the church; for our values; for the culture that we live in.

God is on his knees to the church on this one. God Almighty is on his knees to us, begging us to turn around the supertanker of indifference on the subject of AIDS.

I think our whole idea of who we are is at stake. I think Judeo-Christian culture is at stake. If the church doesn't respond to this, the church will be made irrelevant.

People have been perverting the Gospels and the Holy Scriptures since they were first written - mostly the church. This AIDS emergency actually is just such a valuable example of everything that's wrong and perverted about Christianity today.

And millions of children and millions of lives are being lost to greed, to bureaucracy, and to a church that's been asleep. And it sends me out of my mind with anger.

I implore the church to reconsider grace, to put an end to this hierarchy of sin. All have fallen short. Let's stop throwing stones at people who've made mistakes in their life, and let's start throwing drugs.

Christianity Today, March, 2003
|| doug, 21:47

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