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Originally Posted by Maximilian
It always amazes me that this is how some, who are apparently far-removed from the situation, view those who are recipients of charity. You've bought the lie and drank the kool-aid that poverty is only a surface-level epidemuc, that all homeless people are drunks (because those are the obvious ones you see in public), that all families needing assistance are lazy bums, etc.... Please, study poverty. I urge. I plead with you. Take a social science class on it. I really think you'll at least reconsider your perspectives.
Matthew 25:31-46
It's certainly not a proof-text for how a government should work, but most definitely an implied command that we can harmonize with many of his other teachings, as well as the attitude of GOD in the OT stories.
Roll up your sleeves and get involved in the slums of your neighborhoods. Your perspective of lazy, unproductive bums will probably change and your heart will break for the things that break God's heart. |
You have no idea who I am or what I know. My wife an I volunteer monthly at Convoy of Hope as well a soup kitchens. I give money monthly to organizations that feed and cloth the homeless. Most of them are there because of poor choices they have made in life. I have tried to help some get jobs and come out of those situations and they all make excuses and refuse the help.
IF you will notice in my post I said we should help the elderly, handicapped and THOSE WHO ARE DOWN ON THERE LUCK AND GOING THROUGH HARD TIMES. However, we should not be supporting people on a continual basis who sit in there home provided by the government, watching cable tv.
"I urge. I plead with you. Take a social science class on it. I really think you'll at least reconsider your perspectives."
As far as the above, no thank you. I don't need some bleeding heart liberal at a college lecturing me on the homeless. As I mentioned above I've been on the front lines enough to know what goes on.
I understand there are people who really do need help and we should give them that help.
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