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Would the pastor leave water in the desert so immigrants who will attempt to enter the country illegally don't die of thirst and dehydration on their journey across a blazing hot desert?
Why not be humbled in doing good without having to boast about it? I have a very good friend who sponsors 5 Houston area high school kids every year in the FFA programs. Purchases their animal, all the food it needs and helps them get the animal ready to show at the Houston Livestock and Rodeo show. He is a very busy corporate attorney who is a Buddhist...but he gives selflessly without a sound board.
I have known him for over 20 years and never knew this about him until I accidentally learned about it 5 years ago. I asked him why he never mentioned it...he said he does not like to tout about his charitable work.
Perhaps it is because Buddhists don't feel the need to advertise about the good they do. In 1979 the Japanese Buddhist leader Nikkho Niwano received the Templeton Prize for his work in promoting inter-religious harmony. Likewise a Thai Buddhist monk was recently awarded the prestigious Magsaysay Prize for his excellent work among drug addicts. In 1987 another Thai monk, Ven. Kantayapiwat was awarded the Norwegian Children's Peace Prize for his many years of work helping homeless children in rural areas. And what about the large scale social work being done among the poor in India by the Western Buddhist Order? They have built schools, child care centers, dispensaries and small scale industries for self-sufficiency. Buddhists see help given to others as an expression of their practice just as other religions do but they believe that it should be done quietly and without self-promotion. Thus you don't hear so much about their charitable work.
Vizio, I'm sure you heard about the Flint water crisis. Flint is about 40 miles from where I live. The churches in our area had their parishioners bring TONS of bottled water into the churches and sent it on to Flint and handed it out. I play guitar at one church and there was tons of water ready to be shipped that they collected just in that church alone. Those evil Christians!
Has he invited a homeless person to spend Christmas in his home?
Have you?
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