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angelsichor
But you can't steal from the ignorant hopefuls quite as easily with a homeless shelter.
Furryboots
Illnesses for a start. In 1918 the 'Spanish flu' started in conditions like this-poor hygiene,malnourishment& over crowding...
buttchops
Churches make money, homeless shelters cost money.
kernburner
Im sure that's what Jesus would have said.
MayorMcWeed
I've been saying this for years man
OneUpperSteve
Who would pay for it?
BahamutBBob
Technically, didn't they build a basketball stadium, and then later convert it into a megachurch?
ClassicSean
All them seats.... living there sounds worse than on the streets
M4nFle5h
Why not just build houses? The permanent solution
eion85
Housing First is the current up and coming policy in Homeless Outreach. Who knew, when you know where people live it's easier to help them.
StarPilgrim
Because those don't make any money. Sad, but true. Next question.
olhotdogfingers
ParanoidWithGoodCause
unfortunately it's a really bad business model: the homeless rarely have extra cash to drop in the tithe plate you know
DoughnutJimmy
http://imgur.com/xHmerKr you mean this sort of shit won't fly?
TimmyDans
Are those shelters for mega-homeless or mega-shelters for homeless? Cause Mega-hobo can probably wage thru flood waters
Isorikk
Who's paying for it?
LucianKane
The answer isn't homeless shelters.
punkjml40
Because the sheeple wouldn't fund it, there's no "promise" of redemption.
realrealluckless
"Help your fellow citizens live better lives, and surely god will forgive you and ensure your own life and afterlife goes well"?
punkjml40
Just saying that people would rather give to "Jesus" than help their fellow man
WilwoWaggins
What are the odds that the person who made this meme doesn't give anything to the poor unless confronted embarrassingly?
Yamfish
The Prosperity Gospel preaches that giving to the church acts as a 'seed' and will lead to future wealth, so maybe the homeless should give!
SuperIncoherentRantingMan
Is that the concept of trickle-down faithinomics?
Yamfish
(The Prosperity Gospel is evil)
MySpiritAnimalisBillMurray
But that wouldn't make him money, so why would he do that?
openthepodbaydoorHAL
Why enable stupid people?
kernburner
That's a question to ask a mega church.
MadCat221
Conspicuous Piety.
Shitlips3000
We can finance it by allowing churches to pay taxes. They love to help.
BananaJack
Man this place has been rockin the anti religion fedora pretty hard lately.
WilwoWaggins
Have to find some enemy to beat on. Hurricanes don't care.
TheotherAgentJohnson
Where's the money in that?
kernburner
Capitalist Jesus.
BigfudgeDrshokk
Cut out the middle man and build a coliseum type homeless shelter. Where they have to fight each other to stay and people can pay to watch
Sockinatoaster
I'd like to live in a world where neither exist
krugle
It's called Detroit
otherotherbarry
UnicornFartCollector
thavage
RodTungsten
Exiledaxe
Legdig
What about mega mosques and synagogues?
eion85
The world's largest soup kitchen is also the Golden Temple, the holiest temple for Sikhs. They serve 100-300k meals a day to all faiths.
kernburner
Same logic applies.
Legdig
Glad to hear! might be a bit hard to get a mega temple of Buddhists though. =p
kernburner
:)
notmygovermentname
I bet that place would smell
kernburner
Mega churches smell of bullshit and I don't here anyone complaining about that.
notmygovermentname
Hold on some girl on user sub is sucking on a banana
Volpe42
You smell of bullshit too, but no one is complaining
kernburner
I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!
Volpe42
There's a major problem with shelters that are big, you can't control the stealing, rape, drug dealing, and murders
kernburner
It's almost like those are the exact same problems shared by all of civilization for millennia.
NotWelcomehere
But is concentrated much more highly in the homeless population for various reasons, namely that a large percentage are mentally impaired.
kernburner
Thanks Reagan!
MrShpoople
The vast majority of people requiring shelter during a catastrophe such as this are not mentally ill. They are not even homeless. They (1)
MrShpoople
Are dislocated, temporarily without shelter. To equate the two populations is silly
NotWelcomehere
I'm not, this was a discussion specifically about the homeless.
mirrorz
Osteen said the church could only hold a few hundred people but it housed 20k when it was the Compaq center. Massive restrooms & lockerrooms
gingerkidracing
Locker rooms we're removed as well as a large number of seats. As well their was flooding on the lower level limiting them
boneh3ad
They have large, dry concourses that could have sheltered people while they pumped out the basement.
gingerkidracing
Understands what goes on to that decision
gingerkidracing
That is true. Their are allot of reasons to have not opened up the building unroll they did. I can tell i am of a small group that ...
boneh3ad
Sure, but as a Christian, he should be less concerned about wear and tear on his building and help his fellow man in crisis. Fix it later.
kernburner
That's called a lie.
catznstuff
He just didn't want his church to be messed up when he makes his televised, inspirational this coming Sunday.
mirrorz
I hated the piss troughs they had but there was ample room in the building for a few thousand people to be comfortable.
kernburner
Exactly. I don't buy Osteen's story for a second.
mirrorz
Last time i was in that building I saw Pantera, white zombie and Eye Hate God. Something funny about it being a mega church now.