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This makes my blood boil. Since when do people have to pay to be a member of a church? In the methodist church you are a member until you request your membership be transferred to another church. She was a member for 50 years and was older than dirt and she is refused!!! Not a thing Christian about this.
This makes my blood boil. Since when do people have to pay to be a member of a church? In the methodist church you are a member until you request your membership be transferred to another church. She was a member for 50 years and was older than dirt and she is refused!!! Not a thing Christian about this.
I don't like churches/organized religion, and this is an example of why. Many churches are, in reality, a business... and a tax-free one at that. Something like this doesn't really surprise me. Hope the family can make arrangements somewhere else.
When I used to go to church, I would get so mad when the pastor had an ENTIRE SERMON dedicated to tithing. SMH. They tell you if you don't tithe, you are not a member of the church. LOL
This makes my blood boil. Since when do people have to pay to be a member of a church? In the methodist church you are a member until you request your membership be transferred to another church. She was a member for 50 years and was older than dirt and she is refused!!! Not a thing Christian about this.
The minister did say about sending a dollar. He mentioned bylaws that probably say you must be a contributing member to be buried there. I know of churches, actually every church I know of, where you have to give to be a member. They don't say how much. Tithing is a post reformation protestant cult thing.
When my mother could no longer go to church I took her envelopes about once a month. I took her last one the day after she died. I've had old members call me to pick up their envelope on my way when they couldn't go.
I see there is a discrepancy on the time she was away. I agree with the pastor and put it on the family. Otherwise anyone that ever went to that church, left for years, could be buried there.
I have given up on organized religion but it had nothing to do with things like this. I do have to agree with the pastor.
This doesn't surprise me one iota. I recently attended a Day of the Dead (Dia de Muertos) ceremony at a cemetery in a small village in Mexico where they ask a priest from some local Catholic church to recite a mass at the event. Before he started, he lectured the poor villagers on how they need to pay him more $$ if they want a mass to be recited at the ceremony. After he said he needed more $$, there was an uncomfortable silence and a lot of people hanging their heads low. These people can barely afford to buy socks and shoes to keep their feet warm and this doofus wants them to pay more money next time so he can speak to them. They already pay for it--they pay what they can. Afterwards, I told my villager friends to kick him to the curb--that they really don't need him to reside over an event to remember their dead loved ones. Afterall, they have lovely, non-Catholic traditions that are just fine for this day of remembrance. A lot of them agreed, but some did not. The Catholic church has these people so scared and afraid of ever saying anything against it. It's sad.
The kind of story in this thread (and mine above) are fine reminders why I would never join a church.
When I used to go to church, I would get so mad when the pastor had an ENTIRE SERMON dedicated to tithing. SMH. They tell you if you don't tithe, you are not a member of the church. LOL
That's when you walk out the door. That would never happen in my church. It's small, and most of the people are broke. Hell, the church is broke. But we manage to make it every year and help others who have less besides. A church is not supposed to be about money.
1. they promise unverifiable things (heaven for example)
2. they prey on people's fears (hell for example)
3. they base everything on a book written thousands of years ago, written in many languages and interpreted by people today....what could go wrong?
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