“Of course, there will always be sinners. But the curse of the Reformation is as what spawned tens of thousands of “Christian sects” where each one with a Bible on one hand and a gift of the gab with a touch of charisma were allowed to attract “low-intellect” pastors and hordes of Kool-Aid followers like David Koresh, Jim Jones, and now the latter day Joel Osteens, the Rev. Wrights and Bishop Jakes of this world, all in the name of building family-run enterprises.”
Every catholic funeral I’ve been to, the priest talks about the newly deceased person is looking down on us from heaven. How the hell would he know? Many of these priests didn’t even know the deceased person. Comforting words definitely. But what message does that send everyone about how to get to heaven? So I wouldn’t be ranting about the superiority of the one true church. Just sayin.
“How the hell would he know?”
Don’t you know? The Catholic church gets to decide who is in heaven and who isn’t, not Jesus. Well, according to them, anyway.
This is plain silly and shallow. What do you say to a grieving family? that their loved one is in hell? Everyone knows God forgives the repentant sinner even while taking his last breath like the thief on the right. Funeral prayers are just that, the hope that the deceased repented and begged for forgiveness in the hour of his death. Salvation comes through belief in Christ and his teachings handed down by the apostles and their successors with the Mass being the perfect prayer.
Every catholic funeral I’ve been to, the priest talks about the newly deceased person is looking down on us from heaven. How the hell would he know? Many of these priests didn’t even know the deceased person. Comforting words definitely.
You get that kind of stuff at every funeral where the deceased has some kind of connection to a Christian church of some sort.
That's kind of a hot button for me. A lot of things get said at funerals that we really don't have warrant to say.