I Guess They Don’t Want Me to Visit…

I might be willing to go to church if the paster was the Rev. Lovejoy. That would be awesome.

Also, if I was the church, I would probably make the sign say, “Member parking only. All others will be sent to Hell.”

This picture got me thinking: What are the things our church is doing that says: “Church Members ONLY” or “Outsiders Unwelcome?”

One doesn’t have to have a sign to say certain people are not welcome- members or otherwise. Behaviour and words between two members in front of the one not welcome can do it too.

I remember one incident that took place about a year ago, during the ice storm. Although I just barely attended (maybe once or twice a year at best by that time) I needed a place with heat because my power went out. My older son stayed else where and I think I understand now. My younger son was in treatment for behaviours at the time.

Right on the phone, the person I was staying with said to the priest, “I know. If Joseph were with her, I couldn’t have put her up. No one could.”

Translation: If she had her autistic son, the two of them could have froze to death in the ice.

So, much for love and compassion. I didn’t go back to church and I haven’t spoken to any of them since then. My younger son isn’t as awful as they make him out to be either. OK yes, I had to get him more help than I was able to give him, but I thought is was cruel to talk about people like that, esp in front of them. To be so uncaring about a person with a mental illness or what have you, to the point you’d let them freeze to death after a State disaster, is inhumane. 🙁 They could have helped us get into a shelter or something. OR were they afraid they’d be sicking a rabid dog on the other people who lost heat and electricity in their homes after that disaster?

Obviously, my family was not welcome and now I understand why my older son chose not to stay with me. I have no plans to return either, not even for help in a disaster. Wonder if the Wiccan member, who kept it hush-hush that he was Wiccan, told everyone I am a Humanist while he was at it? I never devulged his secret to those at church, but I suspect he eventually did mine, which is a bit unfair, IMO. I put up with his Wiccan superstitions, Wiccan symbols, and alike, not to mention all the saintly icons, for a freaking week and never complained once, devulged his little secret, or said he was a superstitious boob, yet I that’s the treatment I got before it was all over.

Nice welcome mat sign they all have. 🙄 Even so, I’m not going to go up to the church and tell them that said member knows the saints are just pagan gods and that he claims to be a Warlock. What good would it serve me? They already shut me out anyway and for all I know, they’d probably throw in my face that since I don’t believe, I was just using them for social time. I can find that else where though and probably where my family and me would be more welcomed too. More than likely with other Humanists, IF I could find them.

Not all churches are created equal. I have been to some where they would give you the shirt off there backs to help you and I have been to others where you would find more camaraderie in a bar.