By John McCants
My life was a total mess when I was on the streets of Denver. I had given up on my own will to live, but I decided to keep marching forward because my higher power told me not to give in to the demons of old. So I decided to get off the streets and enter the New Life Program at the Denver Rescue Mission. The whole process I thought was going to be very beneficial for me, so that way I could get back on my feet again. It turned out the Denver Rescue Mission was a sweat shop, a cheap slave labor force I should say. And the people in the program are a cheap “slave” labor force that keeps the place running smoothly. I felt as though I was being taken advantage of, working every day, hardly getting any sleep or help. The help that I received from them was basically a five dollar a week stipend and indoctrination type of teaching telling me and other people how Christianity is the only way, and I can’t question anything about that specific religion.
I notice a lot of non-profit organizations are corrupt. The funds that go into the mission are a lot, but it seems as if most of it will disappear and vanish in thin air. And then after a while when certain people get suspicious, they invest a small substantial sum into a building or an added room to keep federal officials from investigating corruption within the facility.
Getting back to the religion part at the Denver Rescue Mission, The religion aspect gets run down your throat. The Christian religion is taught to the participants in the New Life Program and average Joe who regularly attends the mission. For me and a lot of other people we felt as though the Christians who would give bible lessons were very hypocritical when it came to being open-minded about the Christian God. A lot of other people came into the program with a different religion. Some Muslim, Some Hindus, some Atheist, and some who were Buddhists like me. People who had these different types of belief systems were always told to pretty much give it up because we were being lead by deceiving spirits, and it was choices like that (religion wise) which led us down to the “BROADWAY” of destruction.
In their rules and regulations it is written that you need to be open-minded about Christianity, and even though I renounced it months before, I was still going to be respectful because these people took me in when I had nothing. But when they began to judge my spirituality which I do believe is the key to true righteousness (and Nirvana), I stopped being open-minded to them, because they stopped being open-minded towards me.
So I left because the rules and structure of the place were not helpful to me whatsoever, and also I saw the mistreatment of others within the facility as well. The graduation rate for the program is one percent. Gee, I wonder why. Maybe if they revamped its whole program so that more people would graduate and then leave and die on the street…
By the way lots of people who graduated either returned to drugs or homelessness or as I said they just die on the street). The reason why I believe this happens is because the whole program functions like a prison, a miniature concentration camp. Once that person or persons get institutionalized for a year or two years (that’s how long the program usually is), they don’t know how to function once they leave the program. They get so used to being in a prison-like setting that they don’t want to leave, so they end up messing up their lives, and doing the whole program over again. It’s like a vicious cycle.
Another tragic thing is having handicapped people doing certain jobs that they can’t do. The greatest example that I can find is when a person who had one arm and automatically stopped doing meth (who was in the program) was put on “SECURITY.” Let’s just say he didn’t last too long.
After I left the program I completely understood that I had been in an economic con game. The so-called Christians were making it seem like they were helping people in the program, but in actuality the people with problems were either kicked out or left because of the “Slave Therapy” that they were receiving. Bible study classes connected us with teachers who had schizophrenia and eating disorders. Bible studies and even the program as a whole does nothing but brainwash people. Religion will not stop a person from wrong-doing. It is that person’s choice to choose what is right and what is wrong.
Another thing the NLP program overdid was their workouts. Even if we had a day off we would still have to go to devotions to hear more things about Christianity being drilled into us, then after that we would have to work out for an hour, and then help out at churches by doing chores on a rest day. What is the whole point of calling it a day off, you might as well call it a work day.
The whole NLP program within the Denver Rescue Mission needs to be revamped or changed. Their whole program will be shut down, if things are not changed, because somebody is going to get mad and ticked off and will cause a great disturbance. I’m not instigating anything, I’m just foretelling what will probably happen if a lot of changes are not made for the better. If a person from the mission is reading this, please listen, and take heed and critical thought to what I am saying. Make a positive change to this negative state.
I notice a lot of non-profit organizations are corrupt. The funds that go into the mission are a lot, but it seems as if most of it will disappear and vanish in thin air. And then after a while when certain people get suspicious, they invest a small substantial sum into a building or an added room to keep federal officials from investigating corruption within the facility.
Getting back to the religion part at the Denver Rescue Mission, The religion aspect gets run down your throat. The Christian religion is taught to the participants in the New Life Program and average Joe who regularly attends the mission. For me and a lot of other people we felt as though the Christians who would give bible lessons were very hypocritical when it came to being open-minded about the Christian God. A lot of other people came into the program with a different religion. Some Muslim, Some Hindus, some Atheist, and some who were Buddhists like me. People who had these different types of belief systems were always told to pretty much give it up because we were being lead by deceiving spirits, and it was choices like that (religion wise) which led us down to the “BROADWAY” of destruction.
In their rules and regulations it is written that you need to be open-minded about Christianity, and even though I renounced it months before, I was still going to be respectful because these people took me in when I had nothing. But when they began to judge my spirituality which I do believe is the key to true righteousness (and Nirvana), I stopped being open-minded to them, because they stopped being open-minded towards me.
So I left because the rules and structure of the place were not helpful to me whatsoever, and also I saw the mistreatment of others within the facility as well. The graduation rate for the program is one percent. Gee, I wonder why. Maybe if they revamped its whole program so that more people would graduate and then leave and die on the street…
By the way lots of people who graduated either returned to drugs or homelessness or as I said they just die on the street). The reason why I believe this happens is because the whole program functions like a prison, a miniature concentration camp. Once that person or persons get institutionalized for a year or two years (that’s how long the program usually is), they don’t know how to function once they leave the program. They get so used to being in a prison-like setting that they don’t want to leave, so they end up messing up their lives, and doing the whole program over again. It’s like a vicious cycle.
Another tragic thing is having handicapped people doing certain jobs that they can’t do. The greatest example that I can find is when a person who had one arm and automatically stopped doing meth (who was in the program) was put on “SECURITY.” Let’s just say he didn’t last too long.
After I left the program I completely understood that I had been in an economic con game. The so-called Christians were making it seem like they were helping people in the program, but in actuality the people with problems were either kicked out or left because of the “Slave Therapy” that they were receiving. Bible study classes connected us with teachers who had schizophrenia and eating disorders. Bible studies and even the program as a whole does nothing but brainwash people. Religion will not stop a person from wrong-doing. It is that person’s choice to choose what is right and what is wrong.
Another thing the NLP program overdid was their workouts. Even if we had a day off we would still have to go to devotions to hear more things about Christianity being drilled into us, then after that we would have to work out for an hour, and then help out at churches by doing chores on a rest day. What is the whole point of calling it a day off, you might as well call it a work day.
The whole NLP program within the Denver Rescue Mission needs to be revamped or changed. Their whole program will be shut down, if things are not changed, because somebody is going to get mad and ticked off and will cause a great disturbance. I’m not instigating anything, I’m just foretelling what will probably happen if a lot of changes are not made for the better. If a person from the mission is reading this, please listen, and take heed and critical thought to what I am saying. Make a positive change to this negative state.
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