[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
The bell ringers are hot babes in Berkley, you’re sayin’? 
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Oh yeah!
Actually, I’m attracted to unpainted faces. Not because they hint of innocence or anything like that, but experience has shown me that “clean” skin is pretty, and usually smells and tastes better than adorned skin. Generally. 
I also really like the smell of freshly ivory soaped flesh.
mangeorge
[QUOTE=mangeorge]
I ran accross this on snopes The Salvation is, and always has been, in my opinion the number one charity organization anywhere.
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I thought so too until I dated a band member. I thought she just wanted a way to play music in public, but she was steeped in the church side of things. Nice girl but too prudish, always being shocked by everything fun, like foreign movies. Makes me wonder if my donations are sponsoring people with censorship agendas. So I prefer Goodwill most of the time.
[QUOTE=Jodi]
Now, they do come with a hot side dish of Jesus, but they’re not going to shove Him down your throat before giving you the coat or or dinner or bed you need.
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[QUOTE=mangeorge]
Anyone can stroll into Glide Church in San Francisco, and many other missions, and get a hot, nutritious meal. And other services.
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My dad has refused to donate to the Salvation Army because he believes that the group requires people to convert or attend Christian-based counseling/support groups in order to get the assistance they need. I’ll have to share this information with him.
[QUOTE=ladybug]
My dad has refused to donate to the Salvation Army because he believes that the group requires people to convert or attend Christian-based counseling/support groups in order to get the assistance they need. I’ll have to share this information with him.
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Not only is this not true, but service providers can actually get in trouble for trying to proselytize those seeking services. Most of the socoal workers are not Salvationists. Some are not even Chrstians.
Information is provide about church services or spiritual counselling for those who ask (and plenty do ask), and I believe that most sites usually have some literature placed unobtrusively for anyone who’s curious, but there is no preaching at the sites themselves and absolutely no religious requirements in order to receive services, food, etc.
[QUOTE=ladybug]
My dad has refused to donate to the Salvation Army because he believes that the group requires people to convert or attend Christian-based counseling/support groups in order to get the assistance they need. I’ll have to share this information with him.
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Please do.
My dad died when I was eleven, in 1956. I had four younger brothers and one sister. We, a good catholic family, got a lot more real help from the Salvation Army than we ever did from “our” church.
Yeah, do.
For God’s sake, I’m a secular JEW and I just got done swinging a bell for an hour outside of Wal-Mart here in town for my Rotary club.