Fun Easter Story

[mountain grammy]

1. Yeah, sounds like my husband's family.

My nephew was a hard drinking asshole. His parents are evangelical fundamentalist Christians, born again and again and again, as are all six (now five) kids. So, back to my nephew.
He was a drunk, getting into fights, hitting his wife, the whole bit. After several DUI's, his parents were stressed and my sister in law and I were discussing this once during a visit. I said I worried he would kill himself or some innocent person if he didn't quit drinking and driving. My sister in law said (quote) "I know, what if he kills some poor person who hasn't been saved and they have to spend eternity in hell" and I said, something like, it wouldn't do much for my nephew's salvation, and she said, "no, he's saved."

A few years ago at my mother in laws funeral, I saw my nephew, who has quit drinking, taken up pot, and is now an upstanding person (well kind of) but at least not a drunk asshole anymore. I also saw my other nephew who took his own life two months later at age 21. He was tormented, but we talked and he told me how much he loved Colorado. I begged him to some stay with us for a while and he promised to think about it. I believe he was gay. At his funeral, the preacher went to great lengths to assure us he was with Jesus even though he had committed the ultimate sin of suicide. All was forgiven, but, had he lived his true life he would have never been forgiven.

WTF kind of religion is that?