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RE: End Poverty with Vocations?!
January 20, 2016 at 11:52 am
Hm. Taking you semi-seriously for a moment. there is certainly plenty that needs doing that doesn't require a lot of skill. I don't see the religious organizations stepping up in a big way, but a government program with reasonable wages and benefits including transportation and child care could put millions of people otherwise nearly unemployable to work. Knocking about 5% off the defense budget would free up nearly 60 billion a year for that, enough for a $50,000 pay and benefits package for a million people, with enough left over for administration and other overhead. They would be doing something useful and have OJT and experience that could help them get other, better jobs in the public or private sector if they have what it takes to be competitive. If they don't, like I said, it pays them to do things that need to get done: infrastructure repair, paperwork, home care, tutoring, veteran services, planting trees, cleaning roads, heck, sweeping floors and washing dishes.
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RE: End Poverty with Vocations?!
January 20, 2016 at 11:56 am
Why are people so opposed to the idea of living the life of a true religious?
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RE: End Poverty with Vocations?!
January 20, 2016 at 1:19 pm
You are asking this question in an atheist forum. What kind of response do you expect? This is quite an infantile idea. Do you even know the religion(s) (if any) of the impoverished people you seek to enlist into your flavor of xtianity?
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RE: End Poverty with Vocations?!
January 20, 2016 at 1:24 pm
(January 20, 2016 at 10:11 am)Drich Wrote: Have you ever tried to help someone who's Job is to be homeless or poor? I spent the first part of my Christian life doing this, and their is one thing I've learned.. That their is a freedom that the poor and homeless enjoy that most people with jobs will never truly understand. this freedom means more than life itself in some cases. This freedom however can not exist in any form of structured society. In essence the cost of this freedom is separation from any structured form of work or responsibility. As such you will NEVER talk someone into a job who sole purpose in life is to enjoy this 'freedom' for any length of time beyond what they have to do in order to get back to the 'freedom' they love.
I didn't think these were vocations, more what happened when life gets real.
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