Saturday, May 29, 2010

Poverty

In this global era, one of the most popular word is poverty. Try to look at when the campaign period in the House and the presidential election yesterday. Many parties and candidates who make poverty reduction a charm. Ad seizure direct cash assistance for poor audience became seizure political parties. Mega-Prabowo couples even made a declaration in place of waste disposal which is understood as one symbol of poverty.

Since the second half of the twentieth century, poverty received attention from various circles in the world. Much thought and effort expended, the sweat shed to combat poverty in order to realize the dream birth prosperous society. Excitement of New Order with the title even naming his cabinet cabinet construction, as a manifestation of the commitment to fight poverty. In Latin America also developed what is called prosperity theology. Radiance of God's love is in the existence of prosperity, and Transmit love the devil is in the existence of poverty.
Dragon-dragon, the war against poverty will not end soon.


When development fails to create a prosperous society, many experts tried to find out the cause. Experts from Third World poverty propose the idea that the colonies of countries mainly due to colonization and dependence. During the colonization, nations exhaust all potential occupiers, either economically, socially and culturally, so that people become poor perennial colonies. When independence can be proclaimed, the country still perform the drain through the colonial neo-colonialism or colonization distance. With a capital of money, science and technology, makes the colonizer countries of the Third World as a compulsory deposit the cash cow's milk to the boss.

Allegations of Third World intellectuals who made the First World as antagonist, of course not acceptable. Instead, they filed a mind game that Third World poverty is due to the mystical culture, lazy, traditional and static. The solution offered was clear, namely to develop the third world culture into a legal-rational and progressive. So do not be surprised if later appeared in the world of entrepreneurship development programs of education in Indonesia, even wearing a beautiful star Dian Sastro as its icon. Many more courses are arranged to change the mental constructs, so that at least remain a faithful follower of the First World referrals.
True that poverty is something that is impure, so that should be avoided by all mankind? In The Protestant Ethic, the main attitude is poor you'll enjoy. Their core beliefs on the view that all wealth and all objects in the world belongs to God, so that human beings are bound to maintain and develop it with a stake body and soul. That does not mean it should not consume the Lord's. Humans must eat, drink or anything for the sole purpose of survival. What is prohibited is to enjoy it or to get comfortable with using His.

Work hard for God's property development project is then given birth bullionisme and mercantilism in the next era. High appreciation of the treasures of God is realized by developing as much as possible by consuming as little as possible. By becoming a poor man will actually be able to develop abundant wealth, the wealth belongs to God. Indonesian people actually have that teaching, even long before the Protestants, the conduct concerned. Hard work, but as little as possible the natural process and utilize personal interests.

Two treasures of thought put poverty in a noble position. With poverty, human dignity is no longer attached to worldly goods, but merely to the sincerity and cleanliness of the soul. Relations between people were far from thinking of economic transactions. Others were used as a relative or in Latin as a socius. Life as society took place in a peaceful harmony with others and nature.

Not only the noble, poverty is also the highest form of human faithfulness to God the Creator. In the ancient book of note that the poor are the owner of Paradise Key. With poor living life, man can reach the supreme knowledge, being able to escape the thoughts and actions arrogant and harm to others and nature. He will be a noble human being is not only beside Allam, and others, but also in the eyes of God. Humans do not need to cut down millions of hectares of forest, no need to dredge the coal. Human nature also avoid seeking personal gain by sweat or exploit the brothers and neighbors. Only by poverty, human beings can fully live for the glory of God profusely: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.

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