The faith community provides the heart and backbone for relief (Lesson 4)

I have found that churches have an absolutely critical role in giving strength to any relief effort. Most of my students who are helping have deep religious convictions. The families that have stepped up to volunteer have deep religious convictions. Churches provide the backbone of community response. Yet so many on the left of the political spectrum have such disdain for the devoted. My bet is that a majority of Red Cross volunteers, many of them doing very difficult work, have religious conviction. I don't think the Red Cross has any of the students who protest and riot at the economic summits on their volunteer roster. These morons would rather throw bottles at the police as part of a protest for world peace than roll up their sleeves and hand out water and give solace to desperate people.