{"id":9638,"date":"2013-05-02T09:08:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2013-05-02T09:08:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T14:08:57","slug":"which-religion-cares-the-most-about-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2013\/05\/which-religion-cares-the-most-about-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Religion Cares The Most About The Homeless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?attachment_id=9639\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9639 alignleft\" alt=\"homeless - which religion\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2013\/05\/homeless-which-religion.jpg\" width=\"1586\" height=\"1190\"><\/a>I saw this picture yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/christiannightmares.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">over at Christian Nightmares<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/r2.reddit.com\/r\/atheism\/comments\/1ddxok\/when_i_passed_him_he_proudly_announced_the\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">it was originally posted on Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There\u2019s not much story beyond what you see in the picture, but the original poster did say the man in picture told him \u201cThe atheists are winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Though, if this guy decides to go climbing it looks like the Buddhists have his back there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Now, clearly this is just anecdotal. You can\u2019t read too much into it. If you did, you would have to explain the countless Christian and other religious charities, soup kitchens, churches, and non-profits that help millions of homeless people around the world every day \u2013 including in whatever this guy was in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">But it is pretty fascinating to see which bowls have the most (or least) amount of money in them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And I\u2019ll give him this \u2013 it\u2019s definitely a clever way of getting money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">So, would it get you to toss money in the bowl of your favorite faith to help save face (or better yet, to actually help the man)?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Or would you just keep walking by?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this picture yesterday over at Christian Nightmares. Apparently it was originally posted on Reddit. There\u2019s not much story beyond what you see in the picture, but the original poster did say the man in picture told him \u201cThe atheists are winning.\u201d Though, if this guy decides to go climbing it looks like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3437,"featured_media":9639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Which Religion Cares The Most About The Homeless?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I saw this picture yesterday over at Christian Nightmares. Apparently it was originally posted on Reddit. 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