You're also forgetting that addicts aren't the only homeless people. There are runaways who are fleeing abusive home lives, military veterans, and even families.
I’m not but I think addicts are the majority.
The catholic charities have showers where the homeless are. And I think with addicts it’s hard because they want the drugs or that drink.
And frankly, I don't care if I'm "enabling" people if I'm keeping human beings alive. All people, "addicts" or clean, have value and deserve to eat.
Do you care that that is all your doing..you aren’t solving homelessness by doing that and homelessness creates more problems.
I didn’t say they didn’t have value...they are human and I hope they can come out of it too, I just don’t see feeding them as being the solution to homelessness. Do they deserve to eat if they won’t even help themselves? If they won’t do something for the food but show up?
Comments like this prove you don't understand homelessness.
Why? Wasn’t it a poor choice to start on drugs or drinking? Isn’t it selfishness to keep going although you were probably told by family and or friends that you weren’t a good person to be around while drinking or doing drugs? I worked with a girl who told me her parents were divorced because her mom wanted to drink more than she wanted to be a family...
Except being Christian isn't the issue people have with Christians. It's the self-righteousness and judgemental hypocrisy a lot of them display. They love to focus on the rules and the laws of the Old Testament or even the writings of Paul while ignoring what Christ Himself has said... Since it's a whole lot easier.
Being a Christian is the issue. We believe something other than what the world believes about problems, we believe people are sinners and that makes people mad. Then they don’t understand that even though you are saved, you aren’t perfect and still have sins that God is working on. They think then it’s hypocritical of you to even say anything to them even though you know that you still have God working on you but you’re still supposed to tell the unsaved the Good News.
To tell people about the Good News one must first let people know about sin so it would seem like they are being judgemental or self righteousness when they are actually just letting you know what constitutes sin, something they as a Christian also had to confess when they came to Christ.
Ya, being saved by grace through faith is easier than going to hell for your sins. Even Jesus said;
MATTHEW 11:28-30
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
After all, if you can write of addicts as inferior, deserving of their situation... Well, you don't need to feel all that bad about the fact that you (and me and everyone on this forum since we all live in the same world) are supporting systems that make the world a much worse place for the unfortunate.
If I murder someone would you say I deserve prison? Sometimes bad choices have negative consequences and I think they should so you would think twice about doing it. If being an addict had a very negative connotation maybe then people would think twice about it. But there are people even on the forum ok with marijuana. People are wanting it to be legal for people to do magic mushrooms...where does that end? Will we don’t out more and more now that all the illegal drugs should be legal because they ‘help’ something? There is an opioid epidemic where people are getting those kinds of drugs somehow. We seem to make it easier and easier on people to become addicts.
I never said that I feel bad about the system..again...I just don’t think it’s helping homelessness.
And if you can't work, you deserve to die? Ruth does speak of working, but not everyone can work. And Christ who's teaching should be more important than anything else didn't put any caveats on feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and visiting the sick and imprisoned. He simply commanded us to do it. And His judgment on the those who scorn the least of His people... Well, I don't know what could be more explict.
I didn’t say they deserve anything, except a free life to continue in their addictions and I think enabling people is sad and not helpful.
Ya, but He didn’t command to feed someone for life. Wasn’t it odd that the righteous had no idea that they had done all of that...