Secrets in the Doors

Matthew 24:12…

“and because iniquity shall with teem, the darling of many shall wax cold.”

NEW YORK Ironically, the more bad news there is,

the less likely people may be to give.

(from Foxnews.com)

“Hearing about too many disasters makes some people not give at all, when they would have if it had been just one disaster,” says Michal Ann Strahilevitz, who teaches marketing at Golden Gate University and specializes in the factors at play in charitable giving.

Compared with disasters like the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, those in China and Myanmar have generated just a trickle of aid. As of Friday, Americans had given about $12.1 million to charities for Myanmar, according to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. The group said on Monday that it was too soon to count contributions to China.

Channel 8 san diego

A number of factors may be at play in the slow American response, including a lack of sympathy for the repressive governments involved, doubts about whether aid will get through, and an inclination to save pennies because of shaky economic times at home.

(…or maybe because of lawlessness? - Mang)

…read the rest here.

(photo from nytimes.com)

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