Posted on 08/06/2014 1:07:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
You have to admit that the photos and videos won't have the same impact for fund raising.
I think she makes a good point, which is that many Christians are afraid of serving God in the US because of pushbacks and would rather do in another country.
But her focus on this specific doctor is unfair because she doesn’t know him and she doesn’t know his reasons for going there.
There is no barrier. It would be very easy for a person infected with Ebola to come to the USA (whether knowing they were afflicted or not).
Have you been to Africa? I have. Borders are not that secure. People cross back and forth between borders all the time and bribes are paid. Plus there are many non Africans working in Africa. Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, etc. These people could cross into a non affected country and then fly from there to any airport in the world including ours.
If the disease does not run its course soon in Africa it is coming here and there is no practical way to keep it out. Bringing those two back under super controlled conditions is not the situation we should be worried about.
Ann seems to think snarky equals clever. This is just peevish and mean.
Probably.
Christians need to server both at home and abroad - wherever they are called to do so. If I am a missionary serving overseas, I might answer Ann by saying "I left plenty of Christians in America to do the job you are asking me to do. God has called me to do work here."
Who’s helping Christian’s in Syria? Samaritan’s Purse Christians: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/fruit-and-vegetables-distribution-to-syrian-refugees/
Iraq?
The same:
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/needed-food-for-displaced-iraqis/
Ms. Coulter should be ashamed of herself for this article.
And the great thing about "mission trips to faraway places" is that you have a choice to donate or not to donate based on your beliefs. You don't believe in it, you don't have to pay for it. With taxpayer dollars - you have no choice as to where your money goes.
This isn’t an immigration thread.
Ebola is all over the U.S. it is how they research it, Canada as well.
Do you really think that we are so backwards and primitive that we can’t bring an American Ebola doctor to the clinic that was special made 12 years ago to treat CDC employees and other victims for such diseases?
First it would be primitive to forbid American GIs and missionaries, state department employees or any American advanced treatment at American medical facilities, and second, it is primitive to be so scared that you think it is beyond our capabilities to do so, if that is the case then the first case outside of these two that arrives in the U.S. means we are doomed anyway.
In your mind you really think that it is these two that are going to decide whether Ebola affects America or not?
Is a disease that has killed about 1600 people over almost 40 years of outbreaks, a “pandemic”?
If anything Ann has written that puts the lie to her claim of being a Christian, it is this piece.
If they both weren’t gay, I think she and Putin would make a really cute couple.
I don't think she figured out the difference between serve and servicing.
You don’t sound like much of a Christian yourself. I think gossiping about other people isn’t very Christian.
This one is just mean spirited and dumb.
People are still flying to and from the affected countries every day.
Today there are over 400 million Christians in Africa, comprising over 40% of the population, as a direct result of their embarking on "self-centered wastes of resources". A monumental accomplishment in a continent where Christianity was virtually non-existent 100 years ago.
Yep a good man.
Just looking at it from a selfish perspective, what better patient could we have as our first Ebola patient, in our top Ebola treatment center, than an American Ebola doctor that has been treating Ebola victims in Africa as director of his Ebola clinic.
This sure beats a walk in to the emergency room in Tucson, or Little Rock.
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