You are definitely secure in your opinions.
Also, i posted no opinions.
I stated that giving money to the poor is a good work of God and you stated your opinion against it.
You stated that your relatives give to the poor, and take donations.....which is money for the poor, and yet you are here trying to talk members out of giving money to the poor.
Maybe you dont realize that most members dont operate a business with a backyard that can be converted into a "help" station.
So for the majority of Humans who are Christians, who dont have a small business.........the best way for them to help a homeless hurting street person, is to give them some money.
That's not an opinion.
That's reality.
Ask any long term street person if they'd rather have a new tent or a $20 bill, and they will tell you that they dont need a tent.
A street person can eat 3-4 days on a $20 USD ......because they eat out of cans......and they buy cheap drinks.
They know how to stretch a dollar.......
A point of note there. You never tell us what you do for the homeless. You just judge those who don't agree to treat them how you prefer.
Preach by example.
And now you're aggressive and misrepresenting what was said.
We were not talking about the poor. We were talking about the homeless.
While we can conflate their both being poor, there is a vast difference in scope of charity and exploitation.
Not all who are poor are homeless. While not all who claim they are homeless are necessarily so.
For instance. A woman here poses as homeless throughout the summer. She brings her child with her to use and incentivize giving of money from a gullible public. And for years!
Tax free money. Given by people who don't notice that despite her sign that claims homelessness,and begs for help,she's clean.
Her child is clean. And she doesn't have all her possession in a pile near her. Because, if the homeless don't hide their stuff very well somewhere while they go to beg for coin,other homeless rob them blind while they're gone.
Last summer I found her begging at a strip mall. There's a Doctor's office there too. I dropped a friend off for his appointment at the Doctor. Then I parked close enough to watch the homeless woman and her now 2 year old daughter pretend homelessness. The baby girl now has her own sign.
I picked up my friend and took him home. Then,as the sun was about to set and it was after office hours, I drove by the strip mall again.
The homeless woman and child were walking through the parking lot. I pulled in to watch.
The woman took the child's sign and placed that and her own in the trunk of an Audi sedan that had a temporary tag on the back bumper. The dealer sticker was still afixed to the driver's side passenger window of that four door.
Last autumn a homeless woman,according to her sign, was standing at the end of a dirt road near a grocery store I frequent.
I bought her two sandwiches,with condiments on the side,chips,and cold bottled drinks I purchased from a nearby sub shop.
Turns out she lived in the cabin at the far end of that dirt road.
In my hometown there's a woman who has three locations she begs at. If you stop for her she leans near your car and cries,no tears, "I'm sooooo hungry!"
Years ago. I gave her my last $5. dollar bill.
A friend I told about that said she'd give her a twenty.
I went back home last spring. She's still there. Only this time she was leaving her post at a Walmart.
Just down from where she'd been begging was a dual axel supercab Ford pickup truck. Its vanity tag read , Big Daddy.
That was her husband. The truck was a 2024.
I can see how he afforded it.
There's something very inconsistent with your aggression strategy.
First you argue for charity.
Then you condemn personally those who advise caution and substantive assistance , and care for the homeless, when I don't agree with you that we should just give cash to those who ask.
Which is what you are doing when you condemn giving them food,shelter,clothing,blankets,water.
