Middle Age Russ wrote:My mother's entire family is deeply rooted in the Methodist Church- my fore fathers were Methodist preachers before the Methodist and United Brethren churches merged to form the United Methodist Church. I was christened, raised in, married in and active in the UMC. Then liberalism began seeping into church doctrine. To borrow a quote from Reagan - I didn't leave the UMC, it left me.
It doesn't surprise me in the least that the daughter of the slain officer was treated this way - liberals are without a doubt the most hateful and hurtful people in America these days.
My background and my beliefs are much the same.
My mother is a member of her local UMC.
Except for some funerals, and to introduce my daughter to religion over 30 years ago, I haven't attended since I was 16.
I determined early on that I believed that religion was the root of most war deaths in the total history of mankind and that organized religion was an anathema to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. So I stay away from such.