http://truthia.com/its-now-illegal-to-be-homeless/#
The issues go deeper than homelessness in America. There are different reasons why people end up homeless. Many are out of work and can't pay the bills. Others are handicapped or retarded and have no one to take them in. Still some are just displaced, meaning, they never were trained for anything during their childhood teenage years. This could be due to lack of parental direction or possibly rebellion on the part of the child. A large portion of the homeless are lazy and looking for another way to avoid going to work and will pay the price of being homeless to get their way. And then there are some who were abused as children, and as a result, they developed multiple personalities and at present are unable to work.
One of the things I want to point out in the article is simply the fact that it is not only illegal to be homeless, but the authorities will ship the homeless into camps. This sounds very much like what happened in Germany in the 1940s. As you may recall, if you are old enough, Hitler wanted to have a pure race of people so he began the process of this by eliminating a whole nationality of people, along with a few others. There are s few videos depicting the horrible scenes of men, women, and children forced onto trains to go to their 'camps'. They were then made ready to go to the gas chambers. Over six million people died this way. Not only were the Jewish people affected, but anyone handicapped or with any kind of flaw was also sent off to these camps. It was too late to boot Hitler out of office, for the people, prior to his leadership, wanted a man like him to rule their country.
Sadly, Hitler and the Holocaust are not taught in our schools today. Somebody does not want our children to learn about the horrors of the Holocaust. Why? Because if the students become aware of what happened, they would be able to detect the signs of a future Holocaust, should one come, and may take action against it wherever possible.
The other reason why this concerns me is that there is always the problem of the homeless. Where do they go? Who is responsible for them? How can we best help these people?
The church can step in and help. I have learned a lot from those who work at homeless shelters. We have a fantastic homeless shelter in our area which takes in homeless people and families, and trains people to work with jobs they are suited for. They work on helping those who are displaced. Also, the lazy ones get weeded out as they don't want to work. Most of all, they need the Gospel. They need to hear the Gospel and they need to receive ministry. There needs to be places available that can serve this way. They need to be involved in a local church.
Give a man a fish, and you have fed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and you will help him be sustained for a lifetime. We don't want to give 'fish' every day to the homeless. There are times when it is appropriate to feed them. But they need to learn to be independent workers and they need to be incorporated into society where they fit.
We need to pray for the freedom in our country to remain. We need for the government to decrease, and the power of the people to increase. We need for the church to step up and serve the homeless in whatever ways possible, and train them to have jobs and careers. We also need to provide places for those who are mentally ill, retarded, and handicapped. When this happens, society will benefit, and people will begin to thrive once again. This is why we need to 'Pray for the church and Pray for the country'.
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| Courtesy of 2011 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
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