Homeless Jesus

[scrubthedata]

Stanford researchers are shocked at the results of their own study.

If you were homeless, would you move to Beverly Hills? Here are the deets:

https://smashpipe.com/article/736

[bondwooley]

1. I'm a low income

New Yorker who would be upper middle class somewhere else. I don't know why I stay. But I do understand the generosity of NYCers - they're more in line with the Steibeck quote in the article. We watch each other's backs even though it can be a pain in the ass.

[fayhunter]

2. That's some crazy

sh*t. 1500 homeless have to share 240 beds or go to jail? Yeah, good luck on that.

[Volaris]

3. If we don't find a way to stop the nastiness of wealth inequality in this country

Soon there will be an arena next door so you can kill the guy whos currently sleeping in the bed you want. I use the word arena lightly here, as it won't have seats for average proles, just an arena-like building with all luxury boxes.

[redruddyred]

4. my favorite bit

Then there's the case of Davidson, North Carolina where a dirty, disheveled homeless man would not stop sleeping on a park bench outside an Episcopal church. Horrified passersby made frequent complaints to the police and wrote nasty letters, not because the man might need help, but because they didn't want to look at him. The police weren't able to do much about it, because the man, it turned out, was Jesus – or at least a bronze statue meant to depict Jesus (stigmata and all) as a down-on-his-luck vagrant. The statue even had the Pope's blessing. In the words of the church's Reverend Buck, "It gives authenticity to our church. This is a relatively affluent church, to be honest, and we need to be reminded ourselves that our faith expresses itself in active concern for the marginalized of society."

can we stop bitching at christians now? they do some good stuff too.

[bondwooley]

5. Well, Davidson's

church certainly new how to get through to its flock.