🚨#BREAKING: Hundreds of college students from across the country are using their Spring Break to rebuild homes in Western North Carolina.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) March 21, 2025
Teenage students are traveling from as far away as New Mexico to put on Tyvek suits, clean up, and rebuild dozens of homes.
AMAZING!!! pic.twitter.com/NDALmEYeNA
Saturday, March 22, 2025
maybe there's some hope
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Religion. What is it good for?
ReplyDeleteIn South Texas, many of my classmates would spend their breaks crossing the border not to drink and party (I had to work on the farm). Instead, they donated time to build homes and brought clothing and toys to the less fortunate. I always wondered why they did not do this for the poor and homeless in their neighborhoods. Well, I now now know why thanks to the missing $24 billion and massive amounts of red tape to do so in just unjust California.
Our church did a lot of work with the DC-area homeless, and we worked in tandem with United Community Ministries, which recently made it onto the DOGE list as one of the grifters. So it's a mixed bag: even if you're doing good work for your own community (I'm originally from the DC-Metro area—Alexandria, VA, a few miles south of DC), you could be unknowingly working with a predatory entity wearing the mask of religion. I wouldn't agree that religion itself is the cause of the problem, but religions generally do have a lot of bad eggs.
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