Just venting a bit
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 5:34 pm
No need to discuss extensively nor rehash. Just have to say this!!
Pastor of husband's ex-church wrote. Hopes we'll come back.
Won't rehash much, but (aside from my being Pagan now) here's the rundown: Husband (disabled) attended there 17 years. With 1 exception (married couple w/daughter) NO ONE there cared during years of seizures, two hospitalizations, etc. NO ONE (except that couple w/daughter) ever telephoned, asked if they could help, visited...NO ONE.
I began attending there (years ago now) after feeling guilty for husband "going it alone" for so long, and wanting to help with a weekly charity program. What thanks did I get? Initial hostility (apparently I should have been there MUCH sooner), rampant gossip (included hired staff and help, trickling out into the community), a group of aggressive wolves and other creeps coming out of the woodwork (I'm very pretty, husband's disability/health makes him look much older - provoked sordid speculation).
I mean, REALLY?
The pastor knows what goes on there. I told him.
Hoping we'll return is just as NUTS as suggesting a battered wife return to her batterer...a Jew stay in Nazi Germany to help shine light on those deluded racists...an honor student remain in a classroom full of violent thugs on the fast-track to expulsion or dropping out.
Only in organized religion.
Based on my experience, there's only two sorts who stay in churches: Those in charge, who lord it over others (getting their kicks and jollies) ... and the dummies willing to stay there and put up with it.
/end vent
Pastor of husband's ex-church wrote. Hopes we'll come back.
Won't rehash much, but (aside from my being Pagan now) here's the rundown: Husband (disabled) attended there 17 years. With 1 exception (married couple w/daughter) NO ONE there cared during years of seizures, two hospitalizations, etc. NO ONE (except that couple w/daughter) ever telephoned, asked if they could help, visited...NO ONE.
I began attending there (years ago now) after feeling guilty for husband "going it alone" for so long, and wanting to help with a weekly charity program. What thanks did I get? Initial hostility (apparently I should have been there MUCH sooner), rampant gossip (included hired staff and help, trickling out into the community), a group of aggressive wolves and other creeps coming out of the woodwork (I'm very pretty, husband's disability/health makes him look much older - provoked sordid speculation).
I mean, REALLY?
The pastor knows what goes on there. I told him.
Hoping we'll return is just as NUTS as suggesting a battered wife return to her batterer...a Jew stay in Nazi Germany to help shine light on those deluded racists...an honor student remain in a classroom full of violent thugs on the fast-track to expulsion or dropping out.
Only in organized religion.
Based on my experience, there's only two sorts who stay in churches: Those in charge, who lord it over others (getting their kicks and jollies) ... and the dummies willing to stay there and put up with it.
/end vent