I was wondering if liberals would welcome this help. People of faith help quite a bit in times of need and natural disaster. They don’t often get publicity or seek publicity for their work.
But in the current social cultural environment liberals tend to condemn religious institutions over homosexual marriage or abortion. They condemn religion as useless or dangerous for not having liberal views.
My experience with the 2013 Southern Alberta floods that caused 100,000 evacuations: While Center Street Church was an emergency evacuation center, lefties only complained AFTER the emergency declaration was recinded, about those terrible Christians being involved, ‘forcing their religion’ onto the poor, unfortunate victims of the flooding. Of those who complained, the usual response was that the government should have taken care of it. Surprisingly (not), no one who used the facilities at the church during the evacuation, had anything but glowing comments about all the church volunteers.
The same thing happened with Samaritan’s Purse’s work. They were the first, and only organisation requested by the Chief and Band Council of the Siksika Reserve, to coordinate recover efforts on the Reserve. Lefties whined to high heaven about those evil Christians polluting the minds of the Blackfoot Band. Despite the whining, Council continued with SP coordinating both recovery and rebuilding efforts at Siksika. In fact, SP is still involved, coordinating some of the rebuilding efforts in the City of High River, a non-Native bedroom community near Calgary.
Lefties moan, cry, whine and gnash their teeth, begging the government to do something... Christians roll up their sleeves, get into the trenches and get to work helping others. ‘Twas ever thus.