• TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    When we were young and first married, my wife and I decided to try a church that we had saw online. The website and name made it seem like it would be alright and more modern thinking. We were wrong.

    We pull up and the church building is a double wide trailer, a congregation of about 30 people. The preacher appears to be in his 70s.

    He sees that he has guests and singles us out and puts us on the spot to introduce ourselves to whole congregation. He never refers to my wife by her name instead just calling her “Wife”. He prays for us multiple times during the service and bring us up during the sermon. (Still just referring to us as TORFdot0 and wife)

    Speaking of the sermon, he begins the sermon talking about the gay democrat agenda and how the gays are ruining God’s institution of marriage and how it will soon be illegal to be married to a woman. This gets an audible sigh from the ladies in the front row.

    He also preached to cherish our Bible before the black socialist devil in the white house takes them from us.

    He compared the Bible to an old hound dog and started barking for going on two minutes. It’s like a dog because it warns us of things to come.

    After what seems like an eternity of a sermon, he invites the kids up to the alter for some “Hallelujah” Candy (it’s the Sunday before Halloween). One child takes a second handful of candy and the elderly pastor chastises him and then bends him over his knee and starts spanking him in front of the congregation.

    Needless to say we did not give that church a second visit.