Hunger is a consequence of laziness
Drs. Cloud and Townsend obviously do not know many in the 
that more than three quarters of the population live on less that $2/day and are also hungry.
How can authors...who quote one scripture after another claiming to free Christians of their boundary issues... say something which is in direct contrast to the good news that Jesus preached to the poor? Or in contrast to the passage if you've seen someone hungry and you do not feed that hungry one then you do not feed me...Jesus.
This ignorance points to the boundaries these authors have placed around themselves. The walls to protect themselves that they actually THINK of writing “hunger is a consequence of laziness”! The Nicaraguan people are some of the most hard-working people in the world and the hungriest.
Maria gets up before the sun rises, stokes the cook stove and puts the beans on to cook. She sweeps dirt floor of the house. The baby wakes and she nurses the baby. She and her four children gather what they can from the street that might be u
sable. She then irons the four uniforms heating the iron on the fire.. After being up and working for over an hour, she begins scrubbing them down in the pila (a wash basin). Her husband comes home from working as a guard all night, seven days a week for about $75/month. He is tired and hungry.
Maria puts some leftover rice from last night’s meal on the table and the few jocotes they harvested from their tree. All eat…and all are hungry still. Children go off to school. Husband collapses in the hammock strung in the wee, hot backroom of the tiny house.
Maria cleans up. She scrubs his uniform and a few other clothes on the washboard of the pila and hangs them on barb wire to dry. She then goes out and walks the neighborhood selling a few tomatoes she grew. With what money she has left of her husband's wage and from what she has sold she buys a 1/4th cup of oil, 1 cup of rice, and 1 cup of sugar for the drink and to give them calories.
She comes home in time to take down the dry uniform, iron it for work that night, cook the rice and she found four oranges in the trash that she can make refresco with. The children return and they eat…saving some for the father who will rise later so he can be awake at his security job. After cleaning again…always stoking the fire with twigs
she scrubs the four school uniforms so they will be ready for school.
During the day she has swept her dirt floor and dirt yard eight times. She and the children have hauled buckets of water seven times for cleaning, washing, bathing, cooking, and drinking. She has managed her children, helped with their homework (if she can), helped her husband eat and get ready. Chased other animals out of her yard to protect her few tomato plants. All in temperatures averaging 95°! As the temperatures drop she pulls out a few tortillas she managed to trade with a neighbor…a tiny bit of rice…a few beans. They eat…they soon go to bed…hungry.
Maria is not lazy…Maria is oppressed. Would the author of Proverbs had said that to the Israelites when they were in bondage in Eygpt?
The most filled people in the world are the laziest…they let money make their money. They would not know how to cook beans on a open fire, or go house to house to sell tomatoes for pennies.
Hunger is NOT a consequence of laziest…at least not for the majority of this earth’s popluation. It is the consequence of oppression. Remember that when people spout unreasonable platitudes….for Maria’s sake.
-Kathleen
