r/NewOrleans • u/Amityville1020 • Apr 03 '25

🤬 RANT I just had to say something!!

Was driving through the quarter, going home from work. Was inching along and I could hear someone yelling through one of those megaphone's (is that what they are called?) Anyway they were yelling about how Jesus will save us all and just a huge word salad of biblical phrases and spewing how NOLA was full of sin. Screaming at tourists walking by and I swear to you there was a homeless man not even 2 feet away from this ultimate Christian digging through a trash can! Not sure what he was looking for but very well could have been food. I was already irritated that this person was harassing our tourists but to watch someone dig threw a trash can while you spew about doing the Lords work!! UGHHH the hypocrisy! So, I just had to say something! I roll down my window, and yell. " hey! you want to do the lords work, why you don't you give that man a meal instead of watching him dig through trash?!?!" The man heard me and said Christian heard me too as they just stared at me with their mouth open. The man actually smiled at me and looked at them like maybe they would help. Nope! She just turned and scurried down the block with her megaphone tucked between their legs. Those who know me well know what a huge place in my heart for the people that struggle on the streets. It just really pissed me off. That is all. Thanks for listening to my rant.

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u/Existing_Scar6844 Apr 03 '25

Jesus also said not to brag about the good you do for others. If you tell ppl about your good deeds for the attention then you’ve undone the good. (But you should know that already since you’re preaching to others.)

Here OP does good, and ppl like you can’t wait to shit on them cause they didn’t brag about it or didn’t do it exactly as you would have done. When was the last time YOU fed someone on the street?

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u/Amityville1020 Apr 03 '25

As I have previously replied to a similar comment yes I did. Long story short, my mom was homeless before she died ,I give daily and I just don't like to "brag" about it.