CofC folk wisdom and sayings...

[SolaDude]

Upon being asked why they don't try to evangelize a multiple times divorced and re-married sweet woman who often visited the church with family:

"Why honey, she never would get her marital situation straightened out".

That's one of the saddest, and most angering thing I heard in all my years.

Contrast that with something I once heard at a United Pentecostal Church I attended for a while:

"We just cast out the net and bring them in. It's up to Jesus to clean them up."

Never understood where the thoughtlessness came from...but I think as I look back now, that it was simply an outgrowth of their expertise in self-righteousness...it just results in reckless, insulting behavior....I remember when I was young, my Mom was so proud that her first grandchild was a girl adopted by my oldest brother....Well, you know, the guy that did the announcing in church said "(My Mom and Dad) announce the arrival of their first grandchild, a girl...she was adopted but we all know they love her just the same"....I really have nothing but four-letter words coming to my mind as I remember that [derogatory term] saying that....my Mom cried and cried in the car going home after church.....and she nonetheless forgave him....

Some of my own C of C relatives said that to me, more than once. One of 'em, a Bible-worshipping socialist hag, told me adoption isn't God's will and that I really should have been aborted and "need to understand" that.

Yet THEY exist in their "saved" state as adoptees into God's family, grafted into the tree....*#$%Q#$^%*

[Ivy]

OMG I am ROFL!!!!

a Bible-worshipping socialist hag

I can't even come up with a visual for that phrase......

Some of my own C of C relatives said that to me, more than once. One of 'em, a Bible-worshipping socialist hag, told me adoption isn't God's will and that I really should have been aborted and "need to understand" that.

That one has me speechless. What did you say to her, Struggler?

[Struggler]

I told her that she had just said all I needed to know about her.

[Ivy]

I told her that she had just said all I needed to know about her.

Good for you!! Her inner world must be difficult for her to navigate.

[Ivy]

"She sure drove her ducks to a poor market". (A woman marries a man who is a ne'er-do-well.)

[Ivy]

"He that is stingy is not honest". (Said about a tightwad business man in the church. )

[B.H.]

"He that is stingy is not honest". (Said about a tightwad business man in the church. )

[Ivy]

"He that is stingy is not honest". (Said about a tightwad business man in the church. )

Some of these are treasured quotes from Ivy's mama. I won't say which ones.

[Ivy]

"Vain repetitions". (quietly muttered about an old man who liked to pray on and on when everyone was ready for him to hurry up and finish ).

[Ivy]

"holier than thou" (said about someone who took cofc rules more seriously / literally than you did and was preachy with it. )

I am cracking myself up with these.