Unfortunately, many well-meaning people stage just such an assault upon the self-hood of people in physical need. "If you believed as I do, then your life would be good, like mine." And homelessness, with the tragedies that lead into it and the traumas that flow out of it, can certainly try any faith. It is also difficult to practice some religions while homeless -- Nichiren-Shoshu Buddism, Islam or Judaism, for example.