re: #128 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Would somebody refresh my memory and tell me what the problem with homeless people is?

Teh poorz have fallen from grace with God. It’s part of the dispensationalist, neo-Calvinist thread in some fundie theologies. If you pray a lot, tithe your 10% and follow God’s rules, he will bless you (as in make you rich). But there are still poor and homeless people, so in this line of thought, they have not done such godly stuff, and so God has punished them.

It’s a convenient, if very flawed way to explain why God permits some people to suffer in poverty.