Many religions say you should be generous. But what about.... ?

1. Don't ever get laid-off from your job just as the housing market crashes taking all of your home equity with it after all of your relatives die (so you can't go and live with anyone else) and then lose your home to foreclosure because you can't make payments that you no longer earn from your job.

2. Don't get caught in any natural disasters - fires, floods, or hurricanes and actually BELIEVE that your insurance will compensate you for your losses and you'll just move into a brand new renovated house and keep on going like it never happened.

3. Don't ever, I mean ever, lose your health and need surgery, chemotherapy or any extensive health care treatments and BELIEVE that your health insurance will cover it and you won't lose your job - because of attendance, your house - because you lost your health insurance along with the job but are still liable for either the deductible, out-of-pocket costs or whatever 20% is of your total medical cost.

There are a million ways to end up homeless none of them having to do with drug addiction or criminal activity or just plain laziness. Just be thankful its not you. If you help someone who does the wrong thing with that help its on them not you and not for you to judge.

There are tent cities springing up like pimples all across this country - no electricity, no running water and people go to work and back from there every day and nothing is being done because America is supposed to be the richest country in the world (LMAO) so third world living conditions don't happen here. OPEN YOUR EYES.

We must help the homeless and less fortunate. It is our duty as Christians to do so. We are not wise enough to decide which ones are worthy and which are not. We can't excuse not helping just because we might help the ones who might not be deserving; thereby punishing the ones who are deserving. We CAN pray and ask God for wisdom to discern when and how to minister to these people, though. If we can win them for Jesus Christ AS we minister to them; then their lives can change and the destructive patterns can be broken. I have been involved in many ministries and seen so many lives made better by God's Power working in them. I have seen some who received Christ and became productive and actually came back to help in the ministries that taught them about Jesus and changed their lives. We need to pray for them and have faith in God to work in their lives.

Being generous does not only make God happy but it makes you feel good too,some of us have more than enough while others have nothing,so if you have food,clothing or anything that might not be of use to you it may be for someone else,in my country (South Africa) its called THE SPIRIT OF UBUNTU (HUMANITY).

I don't feel sorry for a lot of homeless people. Half of them are out there on their own faults.

If you think the bible is enough of God's word, you're right; it's enough to send you to hell.