(It took more than 900 million years for a multi cellular organism to grow to mankind, passing through an era of the fish 450 million years ago; It will take 900 months or 900 minutes for a man to see the kingdom of God.)
"Springing up into Everlasting Life"
Charity-Based Religion
(In Preparation...)
American Christianity is a kind of charity-based religion.
They contribute to charity organizations from three motivations:
Natural one
Worldly one
Spiritual one.
If an American is good-natured trying to improve environment in which he/she lives while respecting the teaching of the Holy Book, this respectable person would surely provide aid for a charity.
But, to whom or through what organization?
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Charity Rankings Giveth Less Than Meets the Eye
The Ratings of Nonprofits Are Often Uncharitable, Sometimes Failing to Credit Crucial Factors Such as Success
Call it a false sense of humanity.
It may make you feel better to know that your charitable donations are going to organizations that have been highly rated by any number of online charity rankings. But these sites fail to quantify the most-important and most elusive charity measurement: success in achieving its mission.
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It's hard to know how much these ratings influence donors. Surveys have asked them; 92% of visitors to Charity Navigator who fill out the site's survey say their visit influenced their decision. But Prof. Rooney said that due diligence for charitable giving is "like God, Mom, and apple pie" -- things people are inclined to tell strangers they value even if they don't. Fully investigating a charity is, for many donors, "not worth the due diligence it would take."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122963299671419401.html?mod=article-outset-box
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Anyway, let's check reality of rating charity organizations:
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AMERICAN INDIAN AIP GRADE
American Indian College Fund A-
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AIP GRADE
Africa-America Institute B+
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund A–
UNCF/The College Fund A
HISPANIC AIP GRADE
Hispanic Scholarship Fund A
ASIA & ASIAN-AMERICAN AIP GRADE
Asia Foundation A
Asia Society B+
Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund A
WOMEN’S RIGHTS AIP GRADE
Catalyst A
Global Fund for Women A
Women for Women International A
CRIME & FIRE PREVENTION AIP GRADE
Prison Fellowship Ministries B
DRUG & ALCOHOL ABUSE AIP GRADE
Drug Policy Alliance B+
http://charitywatch.org/toprated.html#crime
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Apart from the theme in this section, I have now a feeling that Hispanics and women will play a major role in the coming 2012 Presidential Election of the U.S., since they look like going "A" all the way.
The agenda must be the relationship between the American Dream and the American Charity.
The general finding is that if you think you have attained your American Dream, you would like to give donations to some charity.
But, if you have been sacrificed for others' American Dream, you would like to receive help from some charity.
In my view, charity is a concept by which we measure absence of the kingdom of God.
(To be continued...)
(How can they be satisfied with such success? Parce qu'ils sont satisfaits de ces femmes.
http://www.gagirl.com/music/unchainedmelody.html )
Joh 4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Joh 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.