I have to agree with your sentiments. I always wonder the same....especially like, why are babies born with diseases and pain? They did nothing to deserve that....why are children being killed daily? They have done nothing wrong.

It's a serious issue. In no place in the bible does it say that being homosexual is a sin, but many people look for excuses for their biases

Do they think Jesus was against helping the homeless?

Not religious, but my grandmother was. And she often told the story of a man at her church when she was young who was a bit of a drunk and had shabby clothes. And the congregation protested him being there and the pastor basically told them all off and that he had every right to be there. Always liked that story.

I’m not religious, but know there are stories on the Bible about Jesus going among the keepers, who were outcasts from society, and being kind to them (plus a little magic about healing them to enhance his image). If kindness to the outcasts was no biggie to Jesus, how can that church’s congregation call themselves Christians? This is the kind of religious hypocrisy that sickens me. The basic ideas of most religions appeal to me as great rules to live by. But it’s when you get people involved, especially when they organize themselves, that turn those ideas into something sinister, evil, violent, and sickening.

I don't know anything about church, but isn't the belief to help people or something like that?

isn’t- isn’t the whole point of jesus and the church and whatever to help the poor and needy?? (or at least not make their lives worse)

OBVIOUSLY THESE TWO HAVE NEVER ACTUALLY READ THE BOOK!

My church is in a neighborhood where a lot of homeless people live. Many times a homeless person will wander in. Nobody complains, they have a right to be there unless they are being disruptive (once a homeless woman plugged every single toilet and trashed the bathroom.) Usually the pastor will talk with them after the service to see if they needed food, clothes or other help. That's how Jesus would treat them. I'm proud of my church.

wow, that is horrible.

That’s absolutely despicable.

I would leave that church , quickly. He that doith to any of his like this homeless man is doing it to Jesus and God. He needs to be taught, but not let him talk to anyone else like that,and go find that man and invite him to continue to come. A lot of old people alone don't know how to get the benefits they need. Did any of you think to ask him what was his situation? Jesus would have. Don't use talk but do the walk. It is not laying down much to help him if you can.

That truly is sorry and sad

This happened at a church I used to go to. It was a megachurch and a homeless man came to listen to the preaching and ask if there was any assistance he could receive. He was dressed in a Sunday suit, clean-shaven and sober, but fell on hard times. The church staff asked him to leave and come back AFTER the service to see if they could help. It was a night service and I sat with him waiting until midnight to see who would come out to help. They locked up the church and turned off the lights and just left us there. I was disgusted to say the least and offered whatever help I could manage in the moment.

Jesus in disguise... who would tell if the rugged homeless man was sent there the same way as Jesus? Actually, wasn't Jesus also homeless at birth in a manger, had to emigrate to Egypt to escape Herod's execution, and Jesus Himself said of *foxes have dens, birds have nests, but the son of man had nowhere to lay His head* to imply our hearts should open to welcome Him?

There are far too many people in this world calling themselves Christian because they think it makes them look good. Such people don't do a single damn thing to make life comfortable for anyone other than themselves.

Like Joel Osteen not opening his doors to hurricane victims......

Oh, so horrid.

can i have the name and location of it?

Where was the compassion??? Sheesh!

What do they think they get all that money for? Private jets?

isn't that the opposite of what Christians are supposed to do ? Who even has the GALL to ask a homeless person to leave ? you could pay me to do it, but for so much money I could buy homeless dude + me a house.

This is sad. What reason could they possibly have?

They didn't want him there because he couldn't pay..... it's all about the money

Donations are voluntary are they not? That pastor was a k******d.

Religion really screws with women's rights. I was told once, by a chauvinist Christian that women have different rights, but they are still equal rights.

I work in a restaurant too and they are rude.

Which is morally superior, though? Subsuming morals that have been imposed on you by a church, or developing your own morals based on the idea that you should treat others the way you would like to be treated in similar circumstances? The latter actually requires self-reflection and thought, and can be modified as the times change. The former merely requires blind obedience and, apparently, judgment of others.

For me, it was a claim that animals have no soul. and I am absolutely sure that they have it, both reason and soul, and more than some people.

Sayings something like this to someone who lost their mother. This makes me want to punch them in the face.

Also, rules that would have made perfect sense for the protection of a tribe in the Bronze Age (most of Leviticus) make absolutely no sense in the modern world. We can eat shellfish now, because we have freezers. We can get tattoos and piercings, because we have autoclaves. And so on.

This is one of the biggest problem with traditional religions. They originate in ancient times, brutal, violent and sexist. How is it logical to follow rules that were developed thousands of years ago in a very different society? I dont need bronze and iron age people to tell me how to behave, how to dress, what to eat or whom to love.

Do the elaborate props and videos include the Learjet, the Bentley and the weeklong retreat at European resorts?

I have noticed science is only accepted if it supports the religious worldview in some way. Any other science is to be dismissed.

When I was 12, I was told you had to believe in Jesus to go to heaven. I asked what about the other people in other countries that never even heard about Jesus. I was told they weren't going to heaven. My God wouldn't keep good people out of heaven just because they didn't know about Jesus. Goodness and kindness get you into heaven, not Jesus or religion in my belief system. I'm a nurse.

Perhaps they were referring to George Michael.

Amen.

Some of the most vile and bigoted people I have known would call themselves “good Christians” with a straight face. It seems like half the people I went to high school with wound up being ultra right-wing zealots who believe everything they read on Breibart.

Setting aside the obvious reasons for why this was terrible, what, exactly, was the mf point in asking this? Let's assume for a moment that hell exists. What could be done about anything at that point? What could the kid do? What could the group person do? Nothing.

What a horrible childhood, deprived of joy and happiness?

Are all churches like this?

I always get a chuckle when I see Christian tattoos, since Leviticus strictly forbids them.

Fun fact. All religions cannot be right. However all religions can be wrong.

Of course condemning a non believer to hell is pretty well the same as condemning them to narnia or the magical world of oz. I'm not really scared of a made up destination...

What had the child done to make the parents think an exorcism is needed?