Poverty-Stricken Africans To Receive Desperately Needed Bibles

[meegbear]

MARADI, NIGER—More than 60,000 urgently needed Bibles arrived to allay suffering throughout the famine-stricken nation of Niger Friday, in one of the largest humanitarian-relief operations ever attempted by a Christian ministry.

"Come rejoice, and feast upon the word of Our Lord, Jesus Christ," said Christina Clarkson, executive director of the Living Light Ministries of Lubbock, TX. "Those who were hungry, hunger no more, for the Word brings life."

An exuberant Clarkson said the Bible drop was the culmination of one of the largest and most aggressive grassroots fundraising drives ever undertaken by the organization, which was able to fund the mission largely through local charitable events, such as bake-offs, barbecues, and pie-eating contests.

"We absolutely would not be here today if it were not for the amazing generosity of the people back home," Clarkson said. "People everywhere opened up their hearts and checkbooks to us and said, 'Dig in.'"



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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46226

[Untermonkey]

1. LOL! Ya gotta love those Onion articles.

[BOSSHOG]

2. BRE'S

Bibles ready to eat.

[dogday]

3. Just add salt and taste......................nt

[BOSSHOG]

4. And thanks to the christians

They come in a variety of flavors. The poor starving masses in Africa can pick and choose just like the "christians" in America do.

[liberal N proud]

5. The problem is this is how the fundie neo-Christians think

If you get them to accept Jesus Christ, they will be saved and will welcome the starvation.

[htuttle]

6. I honestly believed this one until I saw the URL

I swear, I've read a real article just like this within the last two years.

[fujiyama]

7. As I started reading it

I thought, this must be an Onion article.

But the thing is, I wasn't completely sure considering these kinds of actions are all too typical of many fundies.

[zbdent]

8. Remember the South Park episode where they had the starving

children and the nun/whatever that withheld food until the children started studying the bible . . .?