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Well Friday my grandmother passed away. It was sad for Ethan and Elissa, they lost their granddad on their dads side last year, so they have asked a lot about death and heaven. I was torn on taking them to the funeral, but they both wanted to go so we did. It started out like most do, they played some sad southern music and one of her daughters said a little something then her grandson my cousin got up to preach or something like it. OH MY GOODNESS I did not know people like him were real. First let me tell you their is a huge rift in our family and the ones who cause the problems are the "Religious" ones. They are religious and racist, with I say is an oxymoron. Any way Daryl began his rant with "Now I have to say first I love you all and I am not here to be ugly but what I say may step on some of your toes" Okay my advice to anyone bringing a word, if you have to apologize for it, don't bring it. When did Jesus need to apologize. Any way he went on to tell everyone everything from being the devil's children to the sin of shacking up, even calling out homosexuality, said something stupid about if God has not whooped you then you aint no child of God, you belong to the devil. Oh yeah and you can only read the king James bible (Oh the blog I could do on that issue). So finally I had enough, and got the kids and walked out. I had a flash back to a church I grew up in and if you tried to leave the pastor would call you out, I wished he would have done that, because I would have had a lot to say. I kept looking at some of the faces in that room, one of which was a cousin with his pregnant girlfriend, and the thing is i know the pain he has had in his life and this "pastor" telling him he is the devil child, what good does that do him. Nothing in that word had an ounce of love in it. It was a choose God or Hell, where is the choice in that. Jesus is more than your get out of hell free card. He is the lover of your soul, he is the one who never leaves you, who never runs out of love for you, the one who believes in a thousand second chances, the one who you do not disappoint, the one who believes in you and Cherish's you, knows every thought in your heart and loves you still. Anyway on our way out I say the pregnant girlfriend, and she asked if I had had enough too. I told her yes and that I hope she does not think Christians really act like that. I got the kids in the car and I was worried about what all they took in. I told them that what that man said was not how God wants us to talk to to people and then I asked them if you want people the know God what do you do, They both answered "YOU LOVE THEM" If kids can get it so can the rest of us