The Christian churches have lost sight of the facts as they try to remain a force in society.
No one has a mortgage on morality. But you could be mistaken for thinking otherwise if you've been following the argument over the past few days about whether we should increase the foreign aid budget.
A range of Christian organisations have endorsed Labor's proposal that Australia raise our foreign aid to 0.5 per cent of gross domestic product by 2015, in line with the targets of the Make Poverty History campaign. So far the Coalition has committed to lifting foreign aid spending only to 0.35 per cent of GDP. Unfortunately it seems that this debate has less to do with poverty, and more to do with the struggle of various Christian churches to remain relevant. If this was really a debate about poverty, we'd be talking about what works, not what makes us feel good.
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