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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A church in the city I work for is being used as an extreme weather shelter for homeless/at risk people. I received a couple dozen phone calls from the parish when it was first announced who were pissed about homeless people using their church for shelter. Any time I tried to explain the irony of their complaint it just made them angrier.

I'm not saying this to paint a picture of all religious people, but from my experience the one's I have come across tend to not care about anyone in their community not in their circle.