I am seriously torn up by how desensitized so many of us have become, especially Americans. We have life nice and easy. We are sheltered and protected and if something doesn't make us feel happy we can look the other way. Generally we are so busy making sure that our lives and our friends lives are awesome that we don't look beyond our little bubbles.
I just got done watching half of Taken with 12 and 13 year old boys. They thought it was good entertainment. They thought a movie about prostitution and teenage girls getting sold into slavery was good entertainment. Not to mention the drugs, corrupt government workers getting slave money, and more murders than could be counted. This crap is REAL, peoples' children are being sold into slavery by the millions. And we just think its a good saturday night flick.
There are more slaves in the world today than there have ever been (LA Times). More slaves than when slavery was legal! That is crazy. The fight to end legal slavery was only won in the United states and England with enormous aide from churches. The fight to end slavery in our day will only become a reality if we start opening our eyes and get our churches involved again.
This is not entertaining, this is real lives, of real people:
- The average age of entry into prostitution in the United States is 13 years old
- Lowest estimates suggest that over 325,000 youth in the United States are prostituted.
- In some countries such as Guatemala, children account for up to 80% of the prostitution population
- Human trafficking has become a trade which earns twice as much world wide revenue as coca-cola
- Human trafficking is the second largest source of illegal income worldwide exceeded only by drug trafficking
Coming soon: Why the "Slap Game" for iphone isn't funny, especially when 2 and 3 year olds are playing it.
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