Hypocrisy is a huge complaint about Christians. Hypocrisy turns away many people who are passionate and have caring hearts. The fear of becoming a hypocrit turned me away from Christ for many years. It still gauls me that so many who claim to be Christians are nothing like Christ. It is critical to not be hypocritical.
Yes, I know "not one of us is perfect" and "if we were perfect, we wouldn't need Jesus". I know "all of us are sinners". Those are not excuses to choose to sin.
One day I was complaining about fellow Christians whose passions support sinful behavior in others. I am not speaking of the "obvious biggy sins" I am speaking about supporting industries whose sin is covered with layers of consumerism; products that on the surface look totally acceptable.
The response to my complaint was "It is okay as long as 'you don't know'".
It would seem obvious that intentionally "not knowing" is a sin of omission. In a country as blessed as the USA, there is no way that we can know everything about all the products and companies we support. I contend that if you never check things out, you are choosing to sin. Perhaps a few minutes a week checking out web links could help reduce our personal hypocrisy and could put a dent in the world of sin. I am glad to smack evil in the face whenever I get the chance.
It is my intention to learn and then to educate by posting those things that I have learned so that others will also know and maybe in our small part, we can spread the word of sinful abuse of humans.
I will begin with one of my personal passions. If you want me to check something out, let me know.
Because of spammers, I will disquise my email just replace the "dot" with periods and "at" with the appropriate symbol. Send email to: Jane dot cares at agapehands dot com .
Chocolate (OH NO!!!!!)
General Information http://www.radicalthought.org/A55868/cocoa.nsf/Companies!OpenPage
Companies listed as to whether or not their chocolate is obtained with child slave labor...... (sign!) http://www.radicalthought.org/A55868/cocoa.nsf/allpg!OpenPage
Sports equipment: http://www.globalmarch.org/campaigns/worldcupcampaign/Index.php
Information on Obvious Bad Stuff
Child Trafficking
International Labour Office http://www.ilo.org/iloroot/docstore/ipec/prod/eng/2005_traf_involved_en.pdf
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