Holland, Amsterdam,
14 July 2010.
Whenever I find the time I cycle over to the De Tweede Mijl, a homeless centre manned by a group of religious fanatics coming from the Dutch Hinterland, country-side Jesus freaks always willing to spread the Word of their Lord and Master, grasp the wonderfull Hand of Jesus Christ and you...r inmortal soul will be saved for ever, your life energy will rise to a higher excistence so beautifull it is beyond words....
I listen to their words of love and devotion, idolation to a higher Being that is invisible, untouchable, can't be experienced, though their convictions are unwavering, their never ending endeavours to convert me boring to the core....
But then I love sketching people from the streets and their are no better places in the cities of the world as these gathering places of the hopeless, the undereducated masses of the big town, those that have been spat out by the ruling elite, the rejects of the faithfull...
But the same faithfull who set up places like De Tweede Mijl, an opportumity to make merit, the perfect occasion to gain some "innocent" and lost souls for their Holy Master...
Go back to their big well-illuminated, well-heated expensive vilas in the Dutch hinterland after a long day of being the Holy Samaritan, boasting to their fellow church devotees about all the merit they have gained handing out supermarket donated food to the homeless poor masses of the Amsterdam streets...
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