Giving their names back: This duo rescues prostitutes from anonymity and a deadly occupation

"...And as for the money made by whoring: do you think money compensates for transactions which are intrinsically defiling?"

That's significant observation, in my view, within many contexts including, most especially, a Christian moral one. The context of work and how we earn and/or accept money for what deeds and/or purpose is very key to this issue.

There is ANOTHER and unspoken purpose that motivates the lie that convinces some people that prostitution, theft, dishonesty, are necessary inorder to support onesself or even to generate money. It is a lie that lies beneath the surface, quite literally, that serves to convince some people that they have no other choices other than to engage in certain behaviors.

Some even are never told anything but that lie but I've yet to ever know of any human who did not intuitively understand that their actions (lying, prostitution, theft) were wrong on some level, even aside from a religious one (and thus, drug use, other substance abuse is often also present).

But seeing as how God helps those who help themselves...

Is that in the Bible? It's a quaint saying akin to 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness', but is it scriptural? I can think of a lot of people God helps out simply because they cry out to Him because they are helpless and God is all powerful. That's how salvation works.

"The bulldog turns to me and says, "After what you've seen, don't you think the church ought to be in this fight?"

They are there when the women decide they really need them. Beautiful story.

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