The global community is at a critical moment in its pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) they have set. More than a year into the global pandemic, millions of lives have been lost, the human and economic toll has been unprecedented, and recovery efforts so far have been uneven, inequitable and insufficiently geared towards achieving sustainable development. Curious as to how its going? Wonder no more. Analyze the whole story at https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/. (Thanks for pointing us to this resource, Kelly and Michele O’Donnell!)
8) United Nations: Progress on Sustainable Development
Hi Kelly and Michele,
My brief response regarding the U.N. is this…
The U.N. program does one thing right: it provokes World Christians like you and me to get their rear in gear and see who ours and God’s evil competition is.
* The U.N. may not be the the antichrist, but it is most certainly anti-Christian and anti-sovereign towards autonomous countries.
* The U.N. has a global program that is for the glory of man (humanism at best is their worldview. They do not have a Christian worldview and most certainly are not God-centered.
* The U.N.’s goal is a new world order, not an order of independent Christian nation-states.
* The U.N. is against free market economics.
drain the US financially; ditto re rest of the world
* The U.N. has a documented history of financial wastefulness. It is very successful at draining and diverting funds from the U.S. as well as many countries of the world. In the past the United States has paid the lion share of the U.N.’s budget and still the U.N. is generally anti-United States
* The U.N. diverts peoples’ and countries’ finances, expectations, and work away from God-honoring mission organizations like Team Expansion, 24:14, Brigada, etc. and gives people false expectations of “good global works” based on a dubious humanistic worldview at best and an evil worldview more accurately
* Let’s recommit to a global Christian worldview, and a wise, creative, and God-entranced missional approach to see how much better we can do in these major areas of global concern, using sound science, reliable logic, and a commitment to glorify God in each of these areas of development.
* So instead of cursing the darkness, and the U.N. is VERY dark, let’s keep lighting the light of Christ in all of these areas, especially integrating evangelism, disciple-making, and church planting in all these areas of community health, community development and other areas! Let’s follow the lead of William Carey and other historical missional innovators and replace the U.N. piece by piece in a free market/free idea/Christian idea fashion, and not let a bloated whale of a wasteful and corrupted global organization usurp God’s glory in any way, by us showing a better, more profitable (spiritually, economically, developmentally, etc.) way! How about a bit of Godly competition?! We can show the way, even in all of these global concerns, eh??? We can do it. We can win. We can and we will glorify God in every area of these global concerns! The father of modern presuppositional apologetics, Cornelius Van Til, said, “There is not one square inch of this world of ours, that God has not claimed as “Mine!” (paraphrased) Hoorah! Coram Deo! Semper Fi!