“Homeless” like “Godlessness” is a word in need of sound exposition.\u00a0 If we were, for instance, to speak of “godlessness” as a term to be defined according to one’s personal definition of “god” then some sun worshipers might think of a cloudy day when they hear the term aspirated by popular expression.\u00a0 But Godlessness, of course, references a life in conflict with the Law of God.\u00a0 The person who flaunts the Big Ten – and goes about fornicating, stealing, cheating, lying, and blaspheming – may be properly called “Godless.”\u00a0 He is one to be scorned as a damned God-hater, not a nobleman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Homelessness may refer to the condition of a person who has suffered great calamity – from a fire, war, lawless rioting, or anarchy. It is a lamentable and pitiable condition. But the term is inappropriately applied to the derelict (bum, jerk, loafer, sloth, fool, slacker, etc. ) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But such a pitiable person is not to be confused with the derelict. The latter has long been recognized as an irresponsible person lacking integrity and deserving of a proper shunning – not a handout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is wickedness to call good, evil and evil, good. It is asinine to extol folly and belittle calamity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Have done with such buffoonery. Discriminate between the derelict bum and the needy person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
18 June, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Homeless” like “Godlessness” is a word in need of sound exposition.\u00a0 If we were, for instance, to speak of “godlessness” as a term to be defined according to one’s personal definition of “god” then some sun worshipers might think of a cloudy day when they hear the term aspirated by popular expression.\u00a0 But Godlessness, of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,18,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4806,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions\/4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}