IN MY OPINION!
Religious and government hypocrisy is intolerable!
They open their doors during Christian or Jewish or Muslim Holidays for paid ceremonies but then lock out the poor during the cold winter months. If they are afraid of vandals, why not hire a security gaurd or two while offering suffering people a place to find shelter at night?
If you claim to believe in God and you do not allow the poor shelter during the winter nights, you and your religion and your church building are worth zero to society! I agree you are not hotels but if you claim to be non-profit and charitable, prove it!
Most church basements are large enough to provide emergency shelters for the homeless during the cold winter nights, however, far too many religious building doors remain locked after the holidays and hundreds of homeless people are forced to freeze on the streets! What kind of religion is that? What kind of society do we live in?
Religious buildings are not the only examples of social avarice. A great many federal and provincial and city buildings also stand heated and empty at night. Old empty government buildings could easily be transformed into shelters for the homeless and even brand new office buildings could provide space for homeless people during the cold days and nights of winter. A few small rooms with showers and portable beds are not difficult to create within large office buildings and each building would have a set quota so that no one building would be inundated. Providing such spaces would be tax deductible and itinerants would be asked to clean up after themselves to help keep the rooms clean for the next person.
With skyscrapers in many cities standing half lit and empty at night, what would be the harm in creating a government sponsored social policy where quotas could be created and each building allowed a few itinerants a place to warm up and sleep at night? If companies allready pay for electricity simply to keep the building warm, why not keep a few desperate humans warm also? No matter what your religion or philosophy or political concept, if you allow the poor to freeze on the streets while your buildings remains heated and empty and locked on cold winter nights; you and your religion and your company social policies are void of any value whatsoever to any decent society!
Happy Holidays!
Joseph Raglione
Ex/Dir.
Religious and government hypocrisy is intolerable!
They open their doors during Christian or Jewish or Muslim Holidays for paid ceremonies but then lock out the poor during the cold winter months. If they are afraid of vandals, why not hire a security gaurd or two while offering suffering people a place to find shelter at night?
If you claim to believe in God and you do not allow the poor shelter during the winter nights, you and your religion and your church building are worth zero to society! I agree you are not hotels but if you claim to be non-profit and charitable, prove it!
Most church basements are large enough to provide emergency shelters for the homeless during the cold winter nights, however, far too many religious building doors remain locked after the holidays and hundreds of homeless people are forced to freeze on the streets! What kind of religion is that? What kind of society do we live in?
Religious buildings are not the only examples of social avarice. A great many federal and provincial and city buildings also stand heated and empty at night. Old empty government buildings could easily be transformed into shelters for the homeless and even brand new office buildings could provide space for homeless people during the cold days and nights of winter. A few small rooms with showers and portable beds are not difficult to create within large office buildings and each building would have a set quota so that no one building would be inundated. Providing such spaces would be tax deductible and itinerants would be asked to clean up after themselves to help keep the rooms clean for the next person.
With skyscrapers in many cities standing half lit and empty at night, what would be the harm in creating a government sponsored social policy where quotas could be created and each building allowed a few itinerants a place to warm up and sleep at night? If companies allready pay for electricity simply to keep the building warm, why not keep a few desperate humans warm also? No matter what your religion or philosophy or political concept, if you allow the poor to freeze on the streets while your buildings remains heated and empty and locked on cold winter nights; you and your religion and your company social policies are void of any value whatsoever to any decent society!
Happy Holidays!
Joseph Raglione
Ex/Dir.
