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[QUOTE="Deleted member 3000, post: 58856"] Any divine providence is pretty indirect. Largess comes from kind and generous people, who may have been inspired by their religion, but the food, money, and lodging that is offered is offered by people, not anyone divine, and there is no entitlement granted even though that generosity has been offered for centuries. Some pilgrims in the middle ages were compelled to go and may have had to rely on the kindness of strangers. Today the pilgrimage is completely optional -- you don't have to go, and you can quit any time. Anyone who does a pilgrimage with the intent that "the Camino will provide" should know that he really is expecting others to provide. Wrapping it up in a bunch of religious or spiritual jargon does not change the basic expectation. If that expectation rankles some along the way when it is perceived as freeloading, it is quite a logical reaction. I met a very personable Dutchman just before Cahors who had walked from his home in the Netherlands. He said that he had made it all the way without money or paying for anything. He did not ask me for anything after offering his tale, but when it became clear that I was not going to give him anything, he moved right along. I wasn't a resource any longer, so I was not useful to him. His daily task was to find the resources he could utilize, not unlike the hunter-gatherers of yore. I have thought about him regularly, and I still cannot decide if what he was doing was "spiritual." [/QUOTE]
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