This man can't understand that these people have a faith. It isn't a fear that they will upset God for crossing his name out. They are probably happy and not the kind of happy this guy would understand. He seems to me to be so materialistic and finds only happiness in what he has while people like that family find happiness in knowing their alive and that they still have one another. They also believe that God will provide. I understand this. It isn't to say that they sit on their asses waiting for charity. But, this man just came up to them and tried to put a price on their faith. It didn't work because they they got to keep the God from the sign and the money. In their eyes, it only proved their Faith. God provided for them.

I'm not saying he's wrong for being an atheist. I know many. I do believe in God but that doesn't make me a better person. He is wrong for being a dick. For finding fault in something he can't understand which makes him no better then early Christians that treated all other religions as crap out of ingnorance.

Yes, the money could help them but it's not all that matters. When I was young, my mother and my sister and I were homeless. I never even realized it until I was an adult and someone pointed it out to me. I didn't know that people didn't live in motels and moved from one to another. We never slept on the street so I didn't put the two together. I had my sister to play with and my mom to love us. I was a happy kid, ignorant of the world. Again, something this man would probably not understand.

Ahhh, there are people like him in every religion and race. Self satisfying tools that can't see the other side of things. He doesn't have to convert his beliefs, just accept that others don't have the same ones he does.

Thanks again for sharing this. (Sorry for my ramblings.)