Church of the Poisoned Mind
Date Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 04:43 AM PST
Topic Religion


One Sunday my family and I were invited to attend church by one of my husband's friend's wives. This friend is a very close friend of my husband so we attended. My husband and I are both very liberal in our ideas and although we believe in Christ as a separate entity apart from Christians we agreed to attend.

When we got there and the service began there was a lot of singing and all the normal things that go on in a church. So far, so good. Then the service began and the preacher started to preach. He discussed many topics. To my wildest disbelief, the service was enjoyable because most of the time he was putting down televangelists and how they take advantage of people so he really got our attention.

My husband and I though maybe we found a church unlike others , maybe this was the one for us and then it happened. The preacher began walking though the aisles and he was really getting into what he was saying. He went on and on and then he said something that really floored us both. He said, "We are going into the gate of the New Jerusalum and none of those homosexuals are going to be able to get in". My husband and I looked at eachother. We were in shock. This had absolutely no relevance to anything he had said before now. Then the music started.

As music began my husband and I talked amongst ourselves and my husband said, "See, this is why I never go to church, this always happens. Everything is going fine then all of a sudden they have to bring up something about the homosexuals" We stood there for a minute and then I started thinking that after the service we should say something to the preacher about this. So I told my husband that I was going to say something to him. He told me not to at first but I promised to be nice about it and then he agreed.

We had to wait for people to be prayed over because that is the type of church this was. People were walking to the pulpit and letting the preacher pray over them. There was still music playing. It was now the end of the service. I waited until the last person was through and I walked up to this preacher. I said to him, " I really enjoyed the service but I don't understnad how the homosexuals had any relevance to anything you were talking about" He said that what they were doing was sin. I brought up the fact that Jesus came to Mary Magdalene's aid when she was being stoned to death, you know, "he who has not sinned cast the first stone". I asked him what gave him the idea that God didn't love the homosexuals as much as he loved everyone else. He brought up the sin thing again. I told him we were all sinners. I mentioned the fact that Jesus only hung out with sinners most of the time and that was mainly why he was hated so much. He started talking about the gay agenda. I asked him what agenda that was. Because we all know that Christians are the ones with an agenda. People started gathering around. Friends of the preacher's no doubt. They got in on the argument. They started accusing me of having an agenda. I mentioned to the preacher that he was teaching hate in his church. I said he was not doing what Christ would have done. His face turned red with anger. He broke out the Bible and started quoting from ROMANS. My husband came up then because he saw the crowd around me. This preacher was sweating. HE was tongue tied. What he read in Romans was a letter from Paul about the ROMANS lying with other men. Whatever. Still , I made a mention to the preacher that Gays in America pay taxes like everyone else and in America there is freedom of religion and that not everyone has the same religion that he does. My husband told him that all these other religions had the same universal truths about God. the preacher said "I'm not universal I am GOD".
The preacher then asked me to please let him preache the way he wanted to in his church. I wanted to tell him it wasn't his church but I walked away. Atleast I got to watch him squirm.

The thing I learned most from this experience was that by going to a preacher and questioning them about their hate. They really can't back it up. He tried to with the Bible but you can't do that when you are talking about Jesus. He couldn't do that either. It was an enjoyable experience. I loved seeing him squirm. His comment about the homosexuals in his sermon was uncalled for. It wasn't even relevant except to stir up the hate that is already there. It stirs up the fear that these people already have. They really think that by gays living their lives that it is hurting them when it is not. They have never met any gay people,most of them so how would they know? I have had a lot of gay friends over the years. One in particular who used to get beaten up all the time when we were kids. Stirring up that fear in the house of God is what gets gay people killed or hurt. I take offense in that. Then they think it is ok because it is justified by God.

It looks like my husband and I will have to believe in Jesus in our own way. That is ok because I believe Jesus went to Asia during his lost years anyhow. I believe Jesus is closer to being a Buddhist than being a fundamentalist Christian anyhow. That is just my belief based on some books I have read on the subject and by some things he does, well, some yogis, they practice the same things. A bit creepy.

My husband's friend's wife was angry at us. She got over it when I told her what happened. The end.

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