From the WaPo comments section

[BlueMTexpat]

21. I have many cousins who

are Methodists exactly like this pastor.

My mother was raised as a Methodist. She married my father, a Catholic, and raised all five of us children as Catholic.

The Catholic nuns who would come from Minnesota for two weeks each summer to teach us about Catholicism - we were considered to be in "mission" territory because there were no private Catholic schools within a 100-mile radius - would tell us all that our mother was going to Hell because she wasn't a Catholic.

Of course, my numerous non-Catholic cousins - some also Lutheran because their mothers had married Scandinavians - would tell us that WE were the ones going to Hell.

My first husband was Muslim. We divorced amicably enough after 13 years together. My second husband was raised as a Baptist (along the lines of Jimmy Carter and Bill Moyers) and we have been together for 40 years.

Because ALL of us are/were good people and, aside from religious differences, essentially believed in treating all others as we ourselves would like to be treated, I could NEVER believe that ANY of us were going to Hell.

My siblings and I have not been practicing Catholics since we were in our 20s. There are many good things from that religion that we retain, but we are essentially agnostic.

Evangelical "Christianity" as it is practiced in too much of the US is no different from radical religious ideologies anywhere else on the planet and should be regarded as no less than terrorism.