In The Great Spiritual Country Of India

In the great spiritual country of India the homeless can set up large tents on the grounds of the nations capital in downtown Delhi and the homeless are allowed to beg anywhere.
In Muslim Kashmir, India, the poor are treated differently. You rarely see a beggar.
Every morning in Kashmir the poor go to the home of a wealthy Muslim and make their case for why they need money. At the end of their conversation the wealthy Muslim will give them money. I never saw a poor person turned down.
Where I live in Issaquah, Washington - one of the richest areas of the country, the poor are treated much differently.
The City of Issaquah outlawed begging and the police did everything they could to run them out of town. Fortunately what they did was illegal and overturned.
Now the private security companies, who work for the large corporations in Issaquah, are making it as hard as they can on the homeless to beg in Issaquah.
Costco, which has its world headquarters in Issaquah, is a prime example. Their is a little strip of land in back of their building next to the sidewalk where the homeless stand to beg. Costco has posted no trespassing signs next to the sidewalk which is public property. If the homeless move from the sidewalk and set one foot on this little strip of Costco land they are subject to criminal prosecution.
Costco is one of the richest corporations in the world.
As far as the people of Issaquah are concerned, I usually meet with tremendous hatred toward the homeless, even from people who tell me they are Christians.
This is because we are no longer a spiritual country.
In Matthew 25, the heart of the Gospel, Jesus has a lot to say about all of this.

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Captain Bill Schweizer U.S.M.M., missionary
Mountaintop Sea Ministries International

Without menses-malice.