Posted on 07/23/2025 8:50:20 AM PDT by Morgana
Freepers hate me because I lost my faith. I PRAY that I am wrong. I hope every day that there’s a God in heaven who loves all of you as much as you believe!
But many churches and self proclaimed “Christians” are as dangerous as the left. When I was a refugee, all you could do is try to pick a Christian or conservative to deal with. I got abused or ripped off every time. The condemnation of me by so called good church goers about the 5 years of hell since has been humiliating and heartbreaking.
We sent our kids to a mission trip to Memphis and someone threatened to kill them.
We did a mission to the homeless in LA. One of the girls got to work with Pauley Perrette (Abby on NCIS) and had idea who she was.
We can not look to fellow church members or attenders. Some seem truly great and probably they are. But the Bible says we are ALL sinners.
I encourage you to live by faith and scripture which would include Bible believing church worship —- without looking too hard at other people. Eyes on Jesus.
…I don’t hate you! I doubt many do.
Don’t lose your faith is Jesus, He is still the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Stupid people will always be stupid people winning Darwin awards on FR every day. This is just another example.
Yea I don’t think people hate you. It’s just sad the way things are. Really though it was that way when Jesus was here on Earth. Remember he made a whip and drove morons from the temple because it was so bad.
How long has the encampment been there ?
Consent from their parents, or from the homeless? They might have alpreciated a little notice...spruce the place up, a bit.
‘the Bible says we are ALL sinners’
That’s right.
I don’t have any kids and where I live there are no homeless camps so I don’t know.
But - Is this a case of “How dare you expose my child to reality” or were the kids actually put in danger?
I don’t know, don’t live in that state. Wanna bet however since Obama?
” or were the kids actually put in danger?”
Well...
100% of them are on drugs which means there are needles all up and down the streets.
Feces and urine all up and down the street. Can you say cholera, shigellosis, and Salmonella infections, viral infections like hepatitis A and rotavirus, and parasitic infections like giardiasis?
Some homeless men are registered sex offenders.
They should have had three or four parents on the trip regardless.
They should have told the parents this was going to happen before it happened!
A lot of parents would have probably said NO and I don’t blame them. This is dangerous for adults much less children.
“encourage you to live by faith and scripture which would include Bible believing church worship —- without looking too hard at other people. Eyes on JESUS.”
Why do you assume I know nothing??!
That’s the arrogant attitude I am talking about. I have never been treated as badly as I have been from Christian zealots on Free Republic!
I gave it 75 years. I’ve studied and prayed more than 1000 churchies.
And I walked my talk. I’m a better Christian than 99 percent of people in church. I’ll never trust another one! Never! And forgiveness is HIS job, not mine!
The local church.. I went.. until some psycho bitch was jealous and spread vicious lies that the church bought.. they care NOTHING about the teachings of Jesus Christ. NOTHING.
I’M with Ben Franklin...
I follow the man, Jesus of Nazareth not dogma created by a church.
Enough!
Franklin criticized the “priestcraft” and division caused by various religious denominations. He found the focus on complex doctrines and rituals distracting from the core principles of faith like love and compassion.
“I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.”
“I think his (Jesus) system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes,
and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity”
Benjamin Franklin
All I know for sure is I have always stood by and fought for YOUR FREEDOM TO WORSHIP and will until my last breath, but It’s never been reciprocated.
I’m really tired of being preached at.
As for “living by faith”...
I have NO FAITH left. I have seen too much!
Your religion says I have to die to find out the truth!
That’s brainwashing and Extortion, not Faith.
I’m not an atheist. I’m much worse. It’s time for the deity to take some of the blame instead of all the glory.
“”But - Is this a case of “How dare you expose my child to reality” or were the kids actually put in danger?””
It doesn’t matter. Any time school authorities remove kids from the school and take them somewhere else, the parents need to be informed and asked for consent. Anything could happen to those kids while being transported (accidents have happened) and the school is opening itself up to major lawsuits if the unthinkable does occur.
It’s a woke, leftist ideology that posits that parents don’t have the right to know or control what their kids get “exposed” to while at public school. And it is, like most or all leftist thoughts, dead wrong.
Oh no no no, it does happen (if you mean by “you’ve got to be kidding me”, that a church or youth group pastor or leader won’t put your child in danger.)
My own experience when I was a kid in several youth group or trip situations with multiple churches my parents attended. The phenomenal, absolute, complete bovine excrement that went on was beyond belief. One trip I could’ve been killed when a man operating a boat at a lake at high speed, being distracted by a skier he was towing, slammed into the dam.
No doubt in my mind whatsoever, God sent an angel to save myself and everyone else in that boat. Two adults and four kids (one being the skier).
I did not want to go on that lake trip.
There was a bass tournament going on that weekend on that lake, and I knew it would be crawling with high-speed boats and pro-fishermen.
I was raised on the riverbank, and I knew all about how rich folks ran all over the lakes on waverunners and boats and were nearly running over and killing folks running their trot lines and fishing for crappie off of tree stumps and under bridges.
These idiots being drunk made things far worse. Lots of idiot drunk underage kids in their daddy’s boats.
But back to any church dragging your kid off to some trip, “mission”, camp, excursion—I don’t care if it’s just to the corner store. No. Like heck no. They can go fish.
If your kid doesn’t want to go, there’s a valid reason for it. Listen to them.
Investigate the event like Columbo on steroids. Gods trying to protect your son or daughter.
She said she was not given the choice to remain in the van with any of the leaders.
remain in the van with any of the leaders.
the leaders remained in the van......
If you do not think this is wrong then you have either been brain washed or are brain dead. Between 67% and 77% of the homeless are mentally ill, two-thirds of chronically homeless individuals have a primary substance use disorder or other chronic health conditions or just drugged out bat shit crazy. You known like the guy in NYC who set a woman on fire just to see her die...............
If my child had been endangered by the cowardly act of those supposed "leaders" who never left the van. That van may have, just may have ended up as a final resting place for them......so they would never have to leave it.
Jesus was hated too by many. Many people say they follow him but act very poorly. We are all sinners. Don’t judge Jesus off of what these people say and do, judge him from what he says and what he did. Look to him only.
No they don't, you hate yourself and the God you don't believe in because you quit, you didn't rest in Him, you didn't trust in Him. Even God doesn't hate you, you have enough for all.
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