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RSherman

(576 posts)
4. I hear your concerns
Tue Jul 18, 2023, 06:21 AM
Jul 2023

I play the organ. I left a church where I had been playing for 8 years. I grew up with these people. One woman was bringing her phone in to church and watching FOX. Then she would coo in a flirty voice "oh, Tucker". Ugh. Then I slowly realized the pastor (a lovely woman) was a Trump supporter. She said that Social Security, SNAP, and all other safety net government programs were the worst thing the government ever did. She said that helping people is the church's job. Seriously? The church can pay everyone in retirement? They could have helped my mentally ill sister with housing, groceries, etc.? Or my friend who became disabled suddenly last year and I had to pay his bills for 3 months until he was able to get SNAP and $100/week. His truck was repossessed. The church was going to pay his car payment and insurance? How about the property taxes he owed?

I am at a new church and I really like these people. However, one woman recently used the "N word" to describe black students she taught in the South. Wow, that's really Christian. She and others are totally anti immigrant. The Bible states that we are to care for prisoners, migrants, widows, and orphans. Guess they did not read that part.

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