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<blockquote>Lisa DePaoli wrote:

I am not sure how best to support people in need. I do know that the church is offering help to people in need, and swallowing them up. Societal division, it seems, is still growing. White nationalism and evangelism are scary.

It seems that people have experienced existential and sometimes very real threats that have only increased since covid and trump. At one point, as I said in my post, I thought that if people knew how to think critically, it would take us a long way. But in recent years, I have seen that some people just want to believe what they want to believe. They aren't rational. People are more influenced by their cultural identities and by societal structures than they realize. Our world has really been rocked, and there seems to be no going back, only forward into an unknown and uncertain future. There is so much loneliness and misunderstanding.

I do know that people need hope, love, and empathy.

At present I don't have any ideas for how we can support people, but I am open to discussing it!&nbsp;
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