• 0 Posts
  • 14 Comments
Joined 6 months ago
cake
Cake day: December 16th, 2024

help-circle












  • I do think it’s important to help people get back on their feet, and I appreciate these pastors’ willingness to help,

    Great start! Before continuing the rest of your sentence, please back up two commas and ask the question “where did our society fail in supporting this person to cause them to fall?” But the devil’s after that second comma, because

    but it has to be done in a way that doesn’t put an excessive burden on the community as a whole by creating safety hazards for other people.

    A community in a society concerned about supporting these people from the beginning, not just trying to fix the most visible symptom, would not see the presence of a fellow human being as a ‘safety hazard’ or ‘burden’ but would rightly see it as a failure of their society to take care of the vulnerable.