BE CAREFUL
In many of his writings, Religious scholar Hugh Nibley used scripture and other ancient sources to point out one of the great prevailing evils through all human history: Trading human life for money or profit.
The recent scourge of fraud in the wake of Katrina has angered me enough to actually make a post here about the hurricane–something I had decided not to do originally.
I encourage anyone making donations to the relief effort to read the article I ‘ve linked to above and to be very careful about where they send their money–especially through the internet. As in many other instances following a major disaster, corrupt people are spoofing the the Red Cross website and creating fake websites to take donation. This is a vile and revolting phenomenon, and I hope that as few people as possible will be fooled by it.