Reality sandwich:

Charitable groups notwithstanding, in my city—in fact, in my fairly immediate neighborhood—there would be several hundred jobless people going hungry, along with sleeping in the park, were it not for Central Lutheran Church's free meal program, and LATCH, the Lutheran Alliance to Create Housing (dedicated to finding or building low-cost or no-cost housing). And there are about a half-dozen churches within a ten block radius of Seattle's Capitol Hill area who are doing the same sorts of things.

And none of them make you pay for the soup by listening to a sermon. No proselytizing at these free meal gatherings.

If these churches hadn't take it upon themselves many years ago—as a moral duty—it wouldn't be done.

And that's a rude fact!

Don Firth

P. S. I am not particularly religious. I'm just describing what I see.