World on Fire
I was already a fan of Sarah McLachlan's music. Now I am impressed by her generosity and humanitarianism. This is old news (her video released last year), but I learned about it today from last week's Relevant Podcast. Sarah had $150,000 to make her music video for her single "World on Fire," but instead she spent just 15 bucks to make the thing, and spent the rest of it helping people all around the world. Besides the few frames of Sarah playing her guitar and singing, the video details how they spent the money--from providing 6 months' worth of medical supplies for 5000 people in Nairobi to funding an orphanage in South Africa, adopting the elderly in Easter Europe to providing scholarships for people in Ghana. Go here for the entire list of donations. Watch the video on Relevant TV (perhaps only until the end of this week); the permanent video link is here.
I am deeply impressed by Sarah's virtuous actions.
I am deeply impressed by Sarah's virtuous actions.
posted by Seth at 10:56 PM
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Hey, you know what a Freudian slip is--
when you say one thing and mean your mother.
Seth, how's your summer going?
this is the same woman who sang:
"I won't believe in heaven and hell.
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You're always letting us humans down.
The wars you bring, the babes you drown.
Those lost at sea and never found,
And it's the same the whole world 'round.
The hurt I see helps to compound
That Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Is just somebody's unholy hoax
And if you're up there you'd perceive
That my heart's here upon my sleeve.
If there's one thing I don't believe in.....
It's you"
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahmclachlan/deargod.html
Bah, I don't give her too much respect. I'd put her in the category of Bono... another pompous bloviating superstar whose spirituality is suspect.
Yeah, she has been hostile to Christianity at times. Yet even though she refused to recognize the only truth that gives value to humans (and therefore moral incentive to help them)--Christianity--she still saw the need and did something about it. All the denial in the world cannot get rid of the fact that the Lord's law is written on her heart.
I still greatly enjoy her music. I could listen to her beautiful, ethereal voice for hours. Concerning Bono, I don't know much of his music, but I greatly admire his use of his rockstar status to raise awareness of poverty in Africa. The "Make Poverty History" campaign is stupid and counterproductive, but Bono's done a lot of good despite that.
Even you'd have to agree Seth, Bono would be more successful in eradicating poverty if he went on a "make anarcho-socialist dictators history" tour and began decrying the ineffective, incompetant, and corrupt governments of Africa. Perhaps "raising awareness" towards this would increase the standard of living for those folks.
Instead, he comes to Canada, the US, and the UK and derides us for mot spending a certain percentage of our GDP on "poverty reduction".
Yet he walks around in a five thousand dollar hat.
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