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

[polly7]

52. I agree with everything you've said.

I just attended a funeral Saturday, and honestly (it was the full Catholic Mass) I wouldn't have known it was a funeral let alone who'd died if they hadn't handed out the memorial card as we went in, and a very short eulogy right at the end of it all. I know religion was important to he and his family, but it was almost surreal.

I quit going to church when our local priest, who knew I'd been raised Protestant, kept coming to my house and pressuring me to convert to Catholicism. My Dad rarely ever got angry, but finally he told me to ask him what the heck (he said hell, but whatever ....) difference does it make? "You've got your own religion!" So I asked the priest, and told him for about the fifth time I didn't ever plan on it ...... and he never came around again. My ex was a Catholic. Only on Sundays though for the two hours at church, (and I did go with him the first few years but couldn't stand the hypocrisy of seeing the same people I'd served the night before at the bar getting hammered and cheating on one another, looking down on me at church because I didn't go up for the cookie and wine or whatever that was) ..... the rest of the time he was an abusive, bully who couldn't quote a phrase from he Bible if he tried. But aside from the cheating and hypocrisy, they really did do a lot for the needy in neighbouring towns and cities and I can't fault them for that.

My ancestors were Universalists and Protestants. Doing good deeds seemed to be much more important for them. Maybe I'm just biased.