we stopped at a gas station right next to the highway exit

after we were done we saw her coming out of the store with scratch offs

like jesus christ

my dad met a guy in new york who's job was literally begging on the streets

he'd go out, put on nasty clothes, beg on the street, stop for the day, put on a suit and tie and go home to his wife and kids

people like to complain about capitalism and corporate greed and yes no doubt that's an issue

but this taking culture we have, where people just expect handouts to fuel their desires and not their needs is ridiculous too

Where I grew up, I saw a guy in the city who had a cane and acted like he couldn’t walk. I then saw him turn a corner further down the street and run up a hill. I was really young, like 7 or 8, when I saw that. To this day I’m very skeptical about beggars. I want to help, but I can’t shake the assumption that they may be faking it.

if i had a surplus of money

i'd probably do it more often

but at the moment i'm struggling myself

i'm not giving you money just because i have a car and you don't

just because i have a job and scrape enough by to have a car, go out to eat once a month does not mean that you are entitled to my money because you can't

And let's be fair, some people are literally unable to work, and that's sad, but a lot of people simply don't want to

Yeah. I understand. I’m a little bit better off, so I can afford it some. I’d rather do other things where I know that the money and my time get used wisely.

i'd like to think if i had bill gates level of money i would finance all sorts of homeless shelters, but then i remember people who just abuse them

i don't want to satisfy your prefferred lifestyle

i want to help you earn it

I personally think that local church’s should step in more with homelessness. They can screen people way more effectively and there is ample space for it. Oh course, the concern is about safety. I think we should open mental asylums again. That would help too.

The thing about Jesus is that the left has no intention on advocating that you follow jesus

it's more about the fact that they are distorting his teachings and using them as a club to beat his followers with

Yes. I totally agree.

>oh, you follow jesus, you can't be a christian, though, because you don't support social programs x, y, and z. I'm so much better than you because I think Jesus was a cock, and I follow his teachings better than you do

You could somewhat describe me as an evangelical Christian. I completely understand the deceit that comes from them.

the left really loves that Trump is president because Trump is an adulterer, and the churchy types were so against adultery for so long

I......actually don't know where the left stands on that anymore though

I am not an evangelical Christian...most would describe me as a Gnostic

Yeah, whenever I see someone saying ‘oh you can’t support Trump because he’s an adulterer’, I retort back and say ‘you wanted my Christian conservative values out of politics, you got it, quit complaining’.

not "agnostic", an actual gnostic

Ok.

I've been pouring through scripture as well as documentation not included in the bible and historical records from other factions in the region for almost my entire adult life because I don't believe we're getting the whole story, and I don't trust the human portion of most churches

The human portion of church always needs some level of criticism in order for it to function correctly.

I believe that many in the church have forgotten the role of church in society. That’s mostly in part due to over reliance on the government

back to the christian thing, though

the thing about Jesus, he said to give to the poor. He never said "give to the government, so they can give to the poor"

in fact, there were several cases where he was quite adamant about leaving the government out of it

Jesus established the philosophy of separation of church and state. Mathew 22:21

Personally I think the left fucked themselves by bringing out a rape accusation

And the right have cucked themselves by giving them the stage

Yeah. They may have well done that. Who knows what will happen this November. I live in a gloriously red state, so it shouldn’t be an issue for me.

The people who orchestrated this have not yet fully grasped the speed, power and reach of social media