I am fully convinced there is sufficient food to feed everyone if it were actually distributed instead of wasted needlessly to support the anti-free market practices of the governments of the world. The problem is human waste, not human reproduction.

So, if we forgive the debt, what structures will be in place to keep the same thing from happening again? Do we say, "We forgive the debt, period."? Or do we say, "We forgive the debt under the following conditions . . ." If the former, then we are subsidizing the tyrants. We are continuing to sin against these people. We are feeding tyrannical armies in the name of Jesus, so that they can have full bellies as they head out to the villages to rape women and chop off their arms.

It is very difficult to raise questions that just look like you are getting in the way of action now. "We need to think this through" can easily be taken as plea to simply let sleeping dogs lie. It can be taken as a call to complacency, not a call to discipleship. "I gave at the office" can be a glib way of putting people off, and ignoring the demands that Jesus wove into the very life all faithful disciples. But "I gave at the office" can also be true. Not only can it be true, in some cases it can be "I gave effectively at the office" in contrast to imperious demands to give ineffectively now from someone who wants to be lord of my conscience for some reason.