Ralph Winter is the founder of the U.S. Center for World Missions. He has an interesting comparison that took me back. Here it is.
"America today is a "save yourself" society if there ever was one. But does it really work? The underdeveloped societies suffer from one set of diseases: Tuberculosis, malnutrition, pneumonia, parasites, typhoid, cholera, typhus, etc. Affluent America has virtually invented a whole new set of diseases: obesity, arteriousclerosis, heart disease, strokes, lung cancer, veneral disease, cirrhosis of the liver, drug addiction, alcoholism, divorce, battered children, suicide, murder. Take you choice. Labor-saving machines have turned out to be body-killing devices. Our affluence has allowed both mobility and isolation of the nuclear family, and as a result, our divorce courts, our prisons and our mental institutions are flooded. In saving ourselves, we have nearly lost ourselves."
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