Copyright © By Dr. Adel Elsaie, Book Title: "Please Revise the Bible, Again"

6.1.3 Budget

 

On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush announced through an executive order after having failed to do so legislatively the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives ( http://www.faithbasedcommunityinitiatives.org/ ) at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This initiative allows the US government to more easily fund faith-based organizations for their work in developing countries, including relief and humanitarian efforts. Today 25% of USAID partners are faith based organizations and 385 million dollars has been set aside in the 2005 US budget for faith-based and community initiatives. The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's (NCRP) reports that all the organizations funded under the Faith-Based initiative had as part of their mission three elements: "personal salvation, biblical infallibility and a commitment to religious conversion.”

 

Because Christian mission is a big business, it estimated that they have an annual budget of some $8.6 Billion from donations, pledges to churches, and USAID. This huge budget allows missionaries to work in almost every country on earth to convert Muslims, Jews, Japanese, Chinese, Hindus, Africans, Iraqis, Afghanis, etc. From one church, trustees of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board adopted a $290.1 million budget for 2003 during an Oct. 31-Nov. 3 meeting in Dallas that included the appointment of 95 new missionaries -- the second-largest group of long-term workers ever appointed in a single service. In mission’s fund raising, some missionaries prey on the average Christian to support missions to save the souls of lost people, as well as support their luxury homes, cars, and swimming pools.

 

One has to admit that they have limited success in parts of Africa and areas of human catastrophes, and with generally unreligious individuals. As expected, most of the world is fighting back this massive weapon of missionary deception. Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and others are exposing Christian Evangelists for their misleading methods. Therefore, when one divides their annual budget by the number of converted people, one can find out that converting one single person to Christianity is a very expensive task, and probably that converted person will not have an effect in any religion.