UNIT 3 REL ED LESSON 1.2 TRUSTING GODS LOVE.pptx

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• #2: 1. Covered with a blanket, a homeless man sleeps along a Hollywood sidewalk in California.  (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Social injustice is a concept that refers to an unfairness in a society that is based on inequalities. These may or may not be legal wrong, but more of a moral wrong. These types of injustices occur when the society doesn’t have an equal distribution of advantages and disadvantages. Some of the causes most often seen in social injustice are the unequal distribution of wealth, racism, ageism, and sexism. An example to give of a widespread social injustice would be denying females equal opportunity in the workplace due to thinking they are inferior to men. Number of hungry people in the world The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million people of the 7.1 billion people in the world, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012. Almost all the hungry people, 852 million, live in developing countries, representing 15 percent of the population of developing counties. There are 16 million people undernourished in developed countries (FAO 2012). The number of undernourished people decreased nearly 30 percent in Asia and the Pacific, from 739 million to 563 million, largely due to socio-economic progress in many countries in the region. The prevalence of undernourishment in the region decreased from 23.7 percent to 13.9 percent. Latin America and the Caribbean also made progress, falling from 65 million hungry in 1990-1992 to 49 million in 2010-2012, while the prevalence of undernourishment dipped from 14.6 percent to 8.3 percent. But the rate of progress has slowed recently. The number of hungry grew in Africa over the period, from 175 million to 239 million, with nearly 20 million added  in the last few years. Nearly one in four are  hungry. And in sub-Saharan Africa, the modest progress achieved in recent years up to 2007 was reversed, with hunger rising 2 percent per year since then. Developed regions also saw the number of hungry rise, from 13 million in 2004-2006 to 16 million in 2010-2012, reversing a steady decrease in previous years from 20 million in 1990-1992 (FAO 2012). The above is based on the new estimates of world hunger by the FAO using revised  procedures. It is worth noting that the new estimates give a different answer than the old estimates as the graph below shows (Lappe, 2013).
• #3: Away home Not promoted Broke up Insecure of capabilities/ lack of confidence
• #6: Well, Karl Marx, the father of communism summed up communism in 1 sentence. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The political and economic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society's allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society. 888 Unlike many religions like Islam or Buddhism, the New Age Movement does not trace its roots back to a human founder. It is actually a diverse blend of ancient religions like… • Hinduism • Buddhism • Taoism • Gnosticism • The occult So, despite its title, the New Age Movement is not new. The title “New Age” has been around for more than sixty years and was first popularized by a woman named Alice Bayley (1880-1949). The New Age Movement and its beliefs were widely introduced to thousands of young people in the U.S., England, and Europe in the 1960’s. It was then, during the sixties, that a band known as "The Beatles" were influenced by a Hindu spiritual guru by the name of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They appeared with Maharishi on the news, at Transcendental Meditation conferences, seminars and lectures and went to India to spend time with him in the late sixties. From then on, there was a surge of interest in the West in: • meditation • yoga • and eastern philosophy That interest continues to this day. The New Age Movement has made great inroads all across North America. Surveys show that millions of Americans have adopted New Age beliefs. • 25% say they believe in reincarnation • 42% say they believe they have been in contact with someone who has died • 15% endorse the work of spirit mediums or channelers • 67% read astrology columns • 50% believe in ESP (extrasensory perception) [Statistics above are cited in: So What’s the Difference? by Fritz Ridenour; They Can’t All Be Right by Steve Russo, p. 67; and a 2009 Pew Forum survey] One of the persons who is fueling the ongoing growth of the New Age worldview is a man by the name of Deepak Chopra. Deepak an alternative medicine guru, a spiritual counselor, a number one selling author, and a huge hit in North America. Time Magazine said, “Deepak Chopra is one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” [Time, June, 1999]. His list of friends and admirers runs from Hollywood movie stars to the Dalai Lama. Chopra's 65 books have sold millions of copies in English alone and have been translated into more than 30 languages. His overall yearly profit, according to Time magazine exceeds $15 million. ["New Age Supersage," Time Magazine, Nov. 2008] Some of his books include The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and How to Know God. He’s very popular and unfortunately leading multitudes into a New Age view of God and reality. Now, unlike many religions, the New Age Movement has no: • sacred text • central organization • membership • formal clergy • geographic center or headquarters • official website • or creeds The New Age Movement is sort of a free-flowing spiritual movement, made up of believers and practitioners who share somewhat similar beliefs and practices, which many just add on to their previously held religious beliefs. Seminars, conventions, magazines, books and informal groups replace the use of sermons and religious services. So, that’s a bit of an overview of what the New Age Movement is. Next, let’s consider what New Agers believe. Of course, there are a variety of beliefs within the movement, but generally, most people who would consider themselves part of this movement hold to eight common beliefs.
• #18: Spiritual warfare