#homeless Christian

[freeandclear3567]

I don’t usually do this but I want to start a thread where we all pile on this anonymous* comment I found on IG! It is so dang wrong and I’d love to see a big reblog chain disputing it!

*screenshot with name cut off

So to this moron all homeless people must be idiots who don’t know how to spend money on practical items! What a joke!

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

HOW CHRISTIANITY SUPPORTS MULTIRACIAL, MULTICULTURAL DEMOCRACY

'The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick' — This pastor perfectly explained how the values expressed in Christianity can support a multiracial, multicultural democracy instead of right-wing extremism (via jamestalarico on TikTok)

#christianity #religion #democracy

[that-hippy-dippy-christian]

No offence, but if you are a Christian and agree with anti-homeless architecture, I don’t think we read the same Bible.

[apenitentialprayer]

If you can please pray for Michael, a homeless diabetic who is really trying to avoid going into DKA, I would appreciate it

[shinobicyrus]

This week, Supreme Court Justice Samuel "goes on expensive fishing trips with republican megadonors" Alito decided to use an official Supreme Court order to once again rail against same-sex marriage and the entire concept of safeguarding queer rights.

It was all in response to a case the Supreme Court declined to hear involving the dismissal of 3 potential jurors who claimed that they had been unfairly passed over (yes they're complaining about not being selected for jury duty) due to their religious beliefs. The case involved a woman who was suing her employer for sexual discrimination and retaliation after she started dating the ex-girlfriend of a male coworker. The 3 potential jurors that had not been selected had stated a belief to the court that homosexuality is a sin.

Rather than commenting on the obvious bias three potential jurors had against a party in the case, Alito instead spent five pages ranting about the sheer injustice that had been done to them. The case, he said, fully exemplified the "danger" that he'd predicted back in 2015, when the Supreme Court had legalized same sex marriage nationwide (in a slim 5-4 vote, I will remind):

"Namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homo-sexual conduct will be labeled as bigots and treated as such by the government."

Again this was a case in which a court ultimately decided that maybe people who believed that homosexuals were sinful shouldn't sit on a case in which one of the parties was one such "sinner." That sounds pretty fair to me; they didn't call them bigots, or evil, or throw them in jail. The court just decided that maybe they weren't a good fit for that particular case. For that particular plaintiff.

But no, a Supreme Court Justice, someone who is supposed to be a scholar of law, turned it in his mind into a government assault against "people of good will."

Never forget how narrow that marriage equality decision had been. Never forget Alito and Thomas are still salty about it 9 years later and have stated in public multiple times they want to revisit this decision. Just like Roe, just like Miranda Rights, just like the Voting Rights Act - they will gut civil rights and established precedent on the altar of their Originalism and make us beholden to the tenets of their personal Gods.

And they're doing it in public too, so they can signal to everyone who thinks like them to keep trying, you have friends here. You have a sure chance of victory.

At the very least, the lesbian with mad game won her case.

[the-mercy-workers]

To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

Vincent Van Gogh

[ghostzzy]

shoutout to my stepmom for trivializing the impact of the election because ‘some people are really suffering’ because a really really tragic freak accident happened to one of jack’s classmates

[gxlden-angels]

Shoutout to my therapist for now ending sessions with "We out here sinning! We out here suffering!" as a weirdly hopeful affirmation for me

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

if your solution to getting rid of long since expired food is to give it to homeless folk know that i am smacking you upside the head with a bouquet of salmon hammers because what you’re doing is just gonna make these folk sick and the majority can’t fucking afford over the counter meds or have a bathroom they can safely use to get sick in

[undeadentropy]

Christianity is so wild. Like you're telling me the guy that created me loves me, but also nothing I do will ever be good enough because he fucked up in creating me, by crafting me in his image, giving me a nature that would come into conflict with his own, and he will torture me for all eternity because of it. But he loves me. He could end all this suffering and just, doesn't. He'd rather let his kid suffer and die to fix the problem than actually help.

That literally describes my mom.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[tomicscomics]

05/26/2023

Yeah.  Cold and tingly.

___

JOKE-OGRAPHY: Following the earlier story, the young St. Catherine is trying to convince her brother that her charity is good.  It is actually insane.

[angelx1992]

[panicbones]

i think one of the biggest most egregiously contradicting shit religion wise ive seen is big ass (christrian esque) churches actively putting up wards against homeless people. bro i thought your whole thing was helping the needy what the hell is this

[momentsbeforemass]

Burrito number 2

I like the breakfast burritos at McDonald’s.

As I pulled out of the drive thru on Wednesday, I had this urge to eat my breakfast in my car in their parking lot.

I almost never do that. But it just seemed like the thing to do. So I did.

I’d finished the first burrito. And I was trying to decide whether I was going to eat the second one when I saw him.

He was coming out of the enclosure around the dumpster. With a shopping cart full of stuff in trash bags. He looked like he’d been sleeping outdoors for a while.

And I knew who burrito number 2 belonged to.

So I got out of the car and walked over to him.

When he realized that I was headed for him, he started to back up.

I held out the bag to him and said, “the second burrito is yours if you want it.”

There was a look of surprise on his face. And then a small smile as he took it and said “thanks.”

 I’m telling you this not because I want you to think well of me.

I’m telling you this because it’s what we’re supposed to do.

God wants to work through you and me.

And He will, if we’re willing to follow those urgings of the Spirit, those odd impulses that just seem like the thing to do.

If you’re willing, God will send you where you’re needed.

And for somebody things will be better.

Because you went.

Today’s Readings

[orthodoxadventure]

Crisis have launched their 2023 Fundraiser Campaign A gift of £29.73 to Crisis at Christmas could give someone who's homeless:

Help with a safe place to stay

Hot meals and a Christmas dinner

Access to health and wellbeing programmes

Support to leave homelessness behind for good

You can access the fundraiser here:

https://www.crisis.org.uk/get-involved/donate-to-crisis-at-christmas/