Stand Up To Cancer
I’m sure every television watching person in America has seen the commercial for Stand Up To Cancer. What a great idea and what great response from the media moguls! NBC, ABC and CBS coming together to air the same programming at the same time.
It’s just another incident where the secular world is seeing the power of unity. Coming together for a common cause. I can’t help but look at the church and get even more excited about the possibility of churches coming together as one body for a common cause. It’s the power of unity.
I see it as another, now insignificant, but later to be a significant step in communication within our ever shrinking world. A global culture is upon us and the corporate world has long been preparing, taking baby steps and some, giant leaps, in this process. Strange things like American billionaires buying European soccer teams instead of American teams because they see soccer as a global sport to which America is soon catching up with. They are preparing for a global culture, investing in a global culture.
This is why I am excited about initiatives like We the church and Life TV and The Worship Journals among a few. Just doing their part in this shrinking world. I wish churches would come behind some more and take the lead, instead of a few offshoots.
Maybe there is a difference between being a dreamer and being a visionary. I guess I am a dreamer.
May 29th, 2008 at 5:17 am
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May 29th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Before you sit down and right your check to this “Stand up to Cancer” initiative, think about this…Cancer research is already supported by BILLIONS of tax dollars every year. The National Cancer Institute alone gets over $5 Billion dollars a year. And at the same time, when the academic, biomedical industry and pharmaceutical industry keep pushing for more expensive high tech solutions to cure disease, they do not advocate the basic needs of the American people. They are not supporting effective healthcare reforms that can save lives and prevent cancer. They have allowed our environmental laws to slacken which increases the rate of cancer. They promote dangerous high tech biological research in this country without any safety oversight to ensure public health and safety.
Stop giving your hard earned money to these money-making large non-profit organizations and biomedical institutions until you see them TAKE ACTION with results to FIX our failed healthcare system, INCREASE environmental protection and place EFFECTIVE OVERSIGHT over biological labs that are performing dangerous basic research throughout this country. We first have to have a system in place to prevent cancer. Then we can build an effective system to cure it.
Don’t fall prey to this sympathy “Stand up for Cancer” gimmick. You are wasting your money. Instead, how about throwing a fund raising party to fix our failed medical system? Would not that make more sense?