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-Valued_Customer- t1_j6f380s wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Missouri Camping Ban Squeezes Rural Homeless Population by user10085

That sounds like chudspeak for “I call myself a Christian for identity points but I don’t actually practice.”

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[deleted] t1_j6f3j9y wrote

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-Valued_Customer- t1_j6f43lh wrote

We can agree on that much.

Well, most Americans who voice your perspective do consider themselves Christians in what is surely the most ironic irony that ever ironied.

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[deleted] t1_j6f4bj9 wrote

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-Valued_Customer- t1_j6f4gff wrote

I do too, but I don’t see how that’s related to helping people.

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-Valued_Customer- t1_j6f6pg0 wrote

See, I believe in not judging a person by their residential status. I’ve never stolen a thing in my life—not even as a kid. And yet I’ve been homeless. It sucks. I’m grateful that not everyone was stingy with their charitableness. I always refused it because I’m too proud for my own good, but just being offered was enough to put a smile on my face for the day.

You don’t know what wars someone is fighting that you can’t even see. We can show kindness and solidarity to people who may be ready to give up, or we can hold our possessions ever-tighter and close ourselves off to the world.

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-Valued_Customer- t1_j6f835t wrote

I’m not homeless now because I had a support network, a surfeit of interpersonal charisma, and smarts. None of these were the product of my own efforts. Not everyone has those advantages, and very few indeed possess all three.

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