Why should I be saved again???

dat hat sucks yo u be trippin nigga throw it up for the west coast roll the weed get a blunt light it up nigga aint nuttin but a g thang babaaayyyy 2 loc'd out niggaz goin craaaaazay

 

I slept with your dog.

 

??smokindude stop smokin


sorry about your great aunt

 

Touch base with the preacher.
Let him know his sermon moved you so,
that you have joined a Devil Worship Group.

 

LOL

 

On a serious note, you really should confront the preacher and tell him how you felt. Who knows how many families he's disappointed thus far or has yet to offend? You might as well voice your displeasure, be it over the phone, in person, or in a letter.

When I was 15, a girl in my class was killed by a drunk driver and they had a huge funeral for her in the high school auditorium the following Tuesday. I remember very little was said about Kayla, it was more or less a preacher's big break to use a horrible accident to scare people into believing his beliefs. It was absolutely horrifying how he turned a time of grief into a damnation of the majority of the community. I was pretty pissed off and from that day on, I've insisted that if my family should let a clergyman anywhere NEAR my funeral, I will haunt each and every one of them.

I think that if anyone's going to do a lot of speaking at a funeral, it at least should be someone who knows the family fairly well. My grandparents' favorite preacher (of all the ones that ever preached at their church) flew down just to perform the service and he did a magnificent job. It had religious undertones, of course, but he celebrated my grandfather's amazing life and love and never once breathed a word about converting. I wrote him a letter to show my appreciation for him spending his own money to buy a plane ticket to perform a funeral for free, out of such love. I only wish every Christian would follow his example, it might be a more appealing religion.

 

Sorry about your aunt.

That is pretty freaking outrageously insulting. To use a funeral o hop your message on the departeds loved ones.

Classless bastards. Hope your familys handling it well.

 

you know, i've been to some really lovely funerals. moving, sweet, sad, funny. i was never subjected to that sort of bullshit. thankfully.

 

*gives her a big secular hug*

 

Ummm...at the risk of sounding like an asshole...

What did you expect exactly? Every funeral I've ever been to was a religious service. Chances are the fellow conducting the service has never met the deceased. They have to come up with something, usually in one or two days notice. Kind of makes sense to me that if this is a Christian service...there's gonna be some Christianity thrown around.

If folks don't want to hear that then they need not have that part of the service.

I don't get what everyone's bitching about.

 

Because a funeral is supposed to be about celebrating and remembering someone's life, not trying to convert people or save people.

I've been to A LOT of funerals in my life...none have ever been so apparently religious and with so little mention of the person themselves. My mother's funeral was in a church, and there was no talk about how we should be saved or how we all need to start attending church so we can go to Heaven.

I also should mention that the preacher doing my great aunt's funeral had been her preacher for 19 years. I would say he should know her enough to talk about her, rather than just talking about how he never even knew any of her family.

 

Going to go here, I am sorry for your loss and I hope that you keep with you the things that bring you comfort.

But your aunt chose this person to end her time here and there was a reason for her doing so.

Once again my sympathy on your loss, but I hope you hear what she wished as that is who she chose to end her speach with.

 

I heard it, but I sure as hell didn't listen...

I would have rather heard wonderful stories of her life, rather than the drivel the preacher was saying.

 

Your aunt chose this person. Maybe it was in life what she did not wish to say but meant to........who knows.

Sorry for your loss.

 

I've never been to a Pentecostal Church un till I went to a friends funeral a couple weeks ago. He was only 19 and the majority of the service was one of those "Holy Rollers" type deals. Women screaming "Glory glory take control JESUS!!!! LORD have mercy GLORY GLORY Jesus!!!" It was done in respect towards his parents, but there was little said about his life beyond the fact that he wrote beautiful songs. There were three preachers who spoke. The first told a few stories of Aaron and things they've done together. I really liked it and I could tell that he had cared a great deal for the man he was speaking about. The next two put on this big strange show to the likes of which I have never seen. I thought he was sending the woman next to me into an orgasm!!! It was CRAZY!! And they only mentioned Aarons name a couple of times in between threats of damnation and promises of a glorious afterlife that comes with life devotion to the good book. They didn't even preach the way to Jesus, but more so to the Bible.

 

some of those holy roller churches are fun to go to sometimes. best time i ever had in a church was a primarily black southern baptist church somewhere in texas when i was 9. went there to stay with some family friends formerly from long beach, ca. FUCKING AWESOME TIME. it was totally right out of a movie, down to the little black woman in the hat dragging "that little white girl" to church. it was so cool.

 

All of this sounds like the Flip Wilson comedy sketch known as "The Church of What's Happening Now."

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how old are you, anyway?

 

I wouldn't mind going to one of the Holy Roller Services, but it wasn't what I was expecting to see that day. It kinda through me off, and I've never seen anything like it before I didn't really know how to take it.

 

odd that, i went to a funearl today and found it was way too preachy for me. most of it was good but then the minister dude went on about how a thousand years is a mere moment to god and how anyone who accepts god into their heart will go to the eternal kingdom thats being prepared and a few moments spent on how if you didnt "accept god and his will" you were fuckered and that was it for you, death and nothing more, no heaven or afterlife or anything

coulda been a lot worse but i found it was awfully church/preachy for a woman who, though quit ereligious, had a lot more going on in her life than just church attendence