Add It Up

from Creative Loafing, an Atlanta music/culture magazine May 26 - June 1st edition

Estimated cost of the new 3,000-seat North Point Ministries church to be built on Lenox Road.... $40 million

Annual budget of the largest church in Atlanta, First Baptist Church.... $13 million

Number of uninsured children in Georgia.... 166,000

Approximate cost to give a basic check-up, without blood tests or vaccines, to all those children.... $12,450,000

Approximate number of Sudanese refugees who've fled to neighbouring Chad because of tribal warfare.... 250,000

Cost to shelter and feed those refugees for one year.... $13,590,000

Minimum number of homeless people in metro Atlanta.... 37,000

Minimum number of meals provided to homeless by the Open Door Community each year.... 15,600

Annual budget of the nonprofit Open Door Community.... $440,000

Number of times Jesus lost his temper in the New Testament.... 1*




* He threw money changers out of a temple in Jerusalem

Sources: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Department of Community Health, Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Save Darfur Coalition, CARE, Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Open Door Community

Out of interest, i checked the Open Door Community website which says

The Open Door Community is a residential community in the Catholic Worker tradition (we’re sometimes called a Protestant Catholic Worker House!). We seek to dismantle racism, sexism and heterosexism, abolish the death penalty, and create the Beloved Community on Earth through a loving relationship with some of the most neglected and outcast of God’s children: the homeless and our sisters and brothers who are in prison.

listening to Flesh Eating Foundation | Unreadable Communication - Curve (FEF Remix)

Journeys by DJs: Athens

Notes from my current trip, atm I'm tooling around in the Southern US of A

Athens, GA

The South is a pleasant, and sometimes bizarre place.
The weather is very warm, even hot, and somewhat humid
and it's just their Spring. What they say about the
Bible belt is true. Even businesses like McDonalds
have signs with religious slogans outside. Seriously.
I have seen an insurance company today with something
religious on it's sign, and a Taco Bell (a large chain
fast food place like McDonalds) with "God is Good" on
its sign. I must remember to take photos. I heard an
old black woman say grace over lunch at a senior
citizens centre the other day, and apart from being
nearly impossible to understand with her southern
accent, she ranted like and oldtime gospel preacher
for about 10 minutes. If that is just grace before a
meal, I would hate to be in a prayer meeting with her.

I intended to go out and check some bands/bars/clubs tonight,
but had a bottle of wine with dinner and fell asleep. Oh well.


listening to Duran Duran | Come Undone

Travelling

...expands the mind. Currently in the US of f**n A! Will blog more later.

listening to VNV Nation | End of Days

g0d outside the ethical

Blah, sick. With concomitant blah feelings.

Both the aesthetic and the ethical stages in life ended in despair and it is only in the religious stage that an individual’s real identity and eternal destiny could be found. This picture, however, raises an important issue, namely if the ethical is not the highest then it is possible for a faith relationship with God to call an individual outside the ethical.

from Peter Vardy | Kierkegaard, p 61


listening to nothing right now