...and we continue eating our dinners.

Paul Rusesabagina: I am glad that you have shot this footage and that the world will see it. It is the only way we have a chance that people might intervene.

Jack: Yeah and if no one intervenes, is it still a good thing to show?

Paul Rusesabagina: How can they not intervene when they witness such atrocities?

Jack: I think if people see this footage they'll say, "oh my God that's horrible," and then go on eating their dinners.

-Quote from Hotel Rwanda

Truth resounds in this quote. The horrible, heart wrenching truth that we ignore atrocities everyday and continue eating our dinners.

Over one million people were killed in the genocide of Rwanda.

...and we continue eating our dinners.

It is estimated 300,000 people died in the genocide of Sudan.

...and we continue eating our dinners.

30,000 children die every die of starvation and preventable disease.

...and we continue eating our dinners.

We watch the children on World Vision commercials, with flies on their faces and only a ripped tshirt to wear. Children with no parents to fight for them, left to suffer and die. Orphans now numbering 150 million.

...and we continue eating our dinners.

Why are we better than these people?

What did we do to deserve the ability to flip the channel and ignore their lives?

We have declared a truth in society. Your worth is dependent on which continent you are born on. There are those that matter, and those we ignore.

If you are born on the right continent you will have food, most likely a home, and education. If you die before your due time, by some accident or act of violence you will make it on the news.

If you are born on the wrong continent your life will have little value. You will likely be hungry on many occasion, you will struggle to find shelter, very few get education. And when you die young of a horrible disease or act of violence, you will be buried in a pile of other young people just like you. Beyond your family no one will weep, no one will be aware of this tragedy, because you were born on the wrong continent.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if the poorest of Africa saw the Churches and homes of North Americans. Would they rejoice, thinking to themselves, 'God has sent what we prayed for. These brothers and sisters of Christ will help us, clothe us and give us food and shelter.' They will rejoice with joy knowing that their suffering was over. But then the harsh reality would set in. That we actually don't care. That we aren't the answer to their prayers and that we would rather continue eating our dinners.

"This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God's love? It disappears. And you made it disappear." 1 John 3:16-17