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• Why are the beatitudes (kingdom politics) threatening to the Caesar/Babylonian way the world is run?
• How does Jesus’ political policy affect the politics of our lives?
Neither reactionary conservatism nor trendy liberalism represents the politics of Jesus.
If your liberal politics prevents you from defending the rights of the unborn and the sanctity of the family
you do not share the politics of Jesus.
If your conservative politics prevents you from defending the rights of the poor and the immigrant, you do
not share the politics of Jesus.
Global Poverty
• 16% of the world lives on less than $1 per day.
• 40% of the world lives on less than $2 per day.
• 80% of the world lives on less than $10 per day.
• Americans live on $100 per day.
• 17,000 children die of hunger every day. (6 million per year—a holocaust of hunger)
• The nations of the world spend $3 billion per day on defense. (56% by the U.S.)
• Every day for every child who dies of hunger the nations of the world spend $176,00 to defend themselves from
one other.
Modern Slavery
• There are an estimated 27 million slaves in the world today. That’s more slaves than were seized from Africa in
four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
• Human trafficking is the world’s third largest criminal enterprise. (after drugs/weapons)
• 80% of human trafficking victims are women and girls. (forced into sex trade)
• 50% of modern slaves are minors.
• In 1850 the cost of a slave in the United States was $40,000. (2010 dollars)
• The average cost of a modern slave is $90.