Billy Graham's Final Sermon: 'I've Wept' For America

[polly7]

36. I was raised to believe in God all my life .... I struggle now d/t too many

losses, I figure we couldn't have done anything to deserve all of that, but I'm actually happy that people do believe if it gets them through the worst times of their lives. What kills me, are these shamsters who knowingly rob desperate people of money they need to even stay alive. I've written a few times of my neighbour who gave faithfully every week and yet lived in poverty with her house falling down around her. All she owned was her little black and white tv set she watched Pat Robertson and any of the others who were on, a little chair that should have been tossed in the garbage and her bed and a few other things that weren't of use to anyone, afterwards. She literally had almost nothing, yet every week made sure to get her cheque into the mail before the truck came (I was Postmaster here at the time).

The people I know here who do regularly attend church don't seem to speak of religion outside of it and never, ever pressure those of us to join them or believe as they do. They actually do quite a bit, donating to food banks, gathering essentials for shelters and things like that - it's the people higher up taking advantage of those desperate to believe that give me the heebie-jeebies.