But it's safe to say that, in terms of the left's usual causes célèbres, Jesus does pretty well: nonviolence, support for outcasts and outsiders, the redistribution of power and wealth in favour of the powerless and poor, forgiveness, taxation, reconciliation, figs.
This effect will be drug specific and drug candidates that have poor forgiveness to timing variability are likely to fare much worse in RF values.
Already, in return for debt forgiveness, poor countries are required to use loans for education or health care, or measures to ensure greater labor productivity.
"The ritual started in the province about six decades ago as a form of religious vow by poor people seeking forgiveness, a cure for illness and the fulfillment of other wishes," it wrote.
In its more spiritual dimension, it is a month of prayers, reading of the Quran, generosity toward the poor, honesty and forgiveness, and self-control.
He cites the battle against AIDS, curbs on landmines and poor-world debt forgiveness as issues on which the thinking of the powerful has already been swayed by grass-roots activism, much of it electronically co-ordinated.But there are catches, aren't there?
The many Christians who rallied to the Jubilee 2000 campaign hoped that the forgiveness of poor countries' past debts would be similarly straightforward easier, indeed: were the poor not innocent?
Now the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank have accepted it as one of the poor countries eligible for forgiveness of some of its debts.
The chancellor, whose campaign for debt forgiveness for poor nations is testament to his commitment to developing countries, will raise DFID's annual budget from just under £3.8 billion ($7 billion) in 2004-05 to more than £5.3 billion by 2007-08.
This week, they traveled to Genoa by train with British environmentalists, members of a third world advocacy group called Globalization Resistance and Jubilee 2000, an organization that advocates debt forgiveness for poorer nations.
(laughs) And what did you do to poor Sonny that you need forgiveness?
