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POPSThe Christian Paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong
Just how Christian is America? Aside from what studies show about what we do and do not know about Christianity or how often we go to church, it is how we behave that is most telling. Jesus summed up his message for his disciples when he said the way you could tell the righteous from the damned was by whether they'd fed the hungry, slaked the thirsty, clothed the naked, welcomed the stranger, and visited the prisoner. We are ranked near the bottom among developed countries in government foreign aid. We are the most violent rich nation on earth, with a murder rate 4 or 5 times that of our European peers. Having been told to turn the other cheek, we're the only Western democracy left that executes its citizens, mostly in those states where Christianity is theoretically strongest. Despite Jesus' strong declarations against divorce, our marriages break up at a rate at just over half. Teenage pregnancy? We're at the top of the charts. Just how Christian is America?
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POPSIntercultural Understanding We must always try to make life better and learn from our errors. In education we must show that we have learned and through education we must avoid the evils of intolerance, stereotypes and racism, which, alas, still exists and terrorize the existence of so many people around the world. “Education for Intercultural Understanding and Dialogue” 21. October 2008.
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POPSUnpolitical sports? - A memento of the Olympic Games of Berlin, 1936 Having rejected a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics, the United States and other western democracies missed the opportunity to take a stand that — some observers at the time claimed — might have given Hitler pause and bolstered international resistance to Nazi tyranny. With the conclusion of the Games, Germany's expansionist policies and the persecution of Jews and other “enemies of the state” accelerated, culminating in World War II and the Holocaust. Jewish Virtual Library
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POPSFrance and UK: Merging the Agendas As well as climate change and shrinking energy supplies, Iran's nuclear ambitions were also on the agenda. The BBC's Caroline Wyatt, in Paris, says both Mr Chirac and Mr Blair are seen as leaders in their last term in office and both seem determined to focus on what unites rather than divides their two nations.
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