{"id":2016,"date":"2010-05-06T07:10:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T13:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:02:18","slug":"would-you-resist-the-temptation-of-the-slum-would-you-please-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesusneedsnewpr\/2010\/05\/would-you-resist-the-temptation-of-the-slum-would-you-please-share.html","title":{"rendered":"Slum temptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_0004.JPG.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/2010\/05\/IMG_0004.JPG-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This is a picture of the slum in Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The slum. Look at it. Smell it. Feel it. Can you taste it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What would YOU do if you&#8217;d been born here? In the slum? In the Santo Domingo slum? What would you do?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you stay? Would you runaway? Would you have a choice to stay or runaway?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would YOU know your father? Your mother? Would you trust your father or mother? Would you? COULD you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you try to run away? Over and over again? Would you TRY to run away?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you knock your girlfriend up and then leave? Leave HER to raise your baby alone. Would you do that?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">You wouldn&#8217;t do that, would you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you sell drugs? Would you USE drugs? Would you use your children to sell drugs in hopes that it would buy YOU more drugs?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you find community in the company of gang members? Yep, I used the word &#8220;community.&#8221; Would gang members be your friends? Would violence define your relationships?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you use FEAR to get people to talk to you? To like you? To do things for you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you sell your body?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would YOU sell your body?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you sell YOUR body?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you sell YOUR child&#8217;s body? Would you? Would you have a choice?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What if your babies needed food?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you sell your child&#8217;s body?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What if your husband left you with six kids?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you sell your child&#8217;s body?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What if you had HIV and no way to get medication? Would&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">YOU?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Sell your child&#8217;s body?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Not for thrill. Not for extra cash. But to survive. Would YOU SELL YOUR CHILD&#8217;S BODY?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you lose everything in a flood? Would you return to the slum after the flood? What if you didn&#8217;t know any different? Would YOU return?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Again and again and again? Would you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">YOU?!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Would you save somebody if you could? Would YOU? Save somebody? Would you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Poverty asks a lot of questions. Few answers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">How would YOU answer?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/content.nsf\/pages\/bloggers-sponsor-a-child?open&amp;CL=0159&amp;CST&amp;campaign=1155050\">World Vision needs your help. Together we can stop poverty from asking the questions.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/content.nsf\/pages\/bloggers-sponsor-a-child?open&amp;CL=0159&amp;CST&amp;Campaign=1155050\">Would you click this link to help? <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/content.nsf\/pages\/bloggers-sponsor-a-child?open&amp;CL=0159&amp;CST&amp;campaign=1155050\">Would YOU? <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a picture of the slum in Santo Domingo. The slum. Look at it. Smell it. Feel it. Can you taste it? What would YOU do if you&#8217;d been born here? In the slum? In the Santo Domingo slum? What would you do? Would you stay? Would you runaway? 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