FuN fAcTs!

here are some stats for Rob Bell and Don Golden's "Jesus Wants to Save Christians"

America controls nearly 20 percent of the world's wealth.
6 billion people in the world.
300 million people in the US.
less than 5 percent of the world's population owns a 5th of the world's wealth.

1 billion people in the world do not have access to clean water.
the average American uses 400 to 600 liters per day. (and a lot of it goes down the toilet!)

every 7 seconds a child under the age of 5 dies of hunger.
the average american throws out 14 percent of the food they purchase.

nearly 1 billion people live on less than a dollar a day.
another 2.5 billion live on less than 2 dollars a day.
that's more than half of the world living on less than 2 dollars a day.
the average american teenager spends $150 a week.

Americans spend more on trash bags in a year than nearly half of the world spends on all goods combined.

40 percent of the world population live without basic sanitation.
America throws away 49 million diapers a day.

1.6 billion people have no electricity. (that's a lot of people not reading my blog)

nearly 1 billion people cannot read or sign their name.

nearly 100 million children are denied basic education.

1 in every 7 children has to go to work every day just to survive.

4 out of 5 American Adults have graduated high school.

more than 90 percent if the world population does not own a car.
1 third of American families own 3 cars.

The 3 leading oil consumers in the world are
3. Japan 5.5 million barrels a day
2. China 5.6 million barrels a day
1. United States 20 million barrels a day

The US accounts for 48 percent of global military spending.
less than 5 percent purchases nearly half of the world's weapons.
In 2008 the US will spend more on defense than the next 45 countries combined.

MAN: "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
JESUS: "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother."
MAN: "All these I have kept since I was a boy"
JESUS: "You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
{When the man heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth.}
JESUS: How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."