People Telling Your Kids " They're Going to Hell"

I see this from time to time on the Facebook, and hear about it in person from people.

I often wonder in this time of isolation, if this is a fear by religious organizations that they might be "Losing a grip" on people and their lives?

In the first place, it is no one's business what religious beliefs you bring your children up in. It really isn't.

That's between you and your god, your personal belief, or non-belief.

There is a group now suing the Governor and the Attorney General of this state because they think that this "stay at home" business is keeping people from attending church. Never mind, Gov. Abbott has said that the stay at home order did not include religious groups. 

Again, I wonder how much this involves money?

I know we have received letters from church and my mom received one from church and in each envelope was a separate envelope so you can send in your "tithe."  Got that overhead.

I know there are TV preachers who have said, " Even if you've lost your job, you need to keep tithing, Probably they have a payment on that Dassault Falcon 8X Jet, you know the one that can fly from here to Europe without refueling, is due.

For years, the Baptists have used the Book of Micah, 3:10 to justify tithing.

As one of my former pastor friends writes-

 "Tithing was part of the "Old Law" and was ONLY for the Jewish people and their farm products. Some churches say that it is also for today's Christians but they are wrong and they know it. Of the 613 laws that God gave to Moses to give to the Jewish people, why is it that aside from the ten commandments, "tithing" is virtually the ONLY other law that the modern non Jewish Christian churches of today try to retain? They retain it in name only however, since there is nothing similar between Moses’ law of tithing" and "Christian giving. Christian tithing is an extra man made concept and doctrine. Aside from the ten percent it has nothing in common with the tithing law of Moses, and was never practiced by the New Testament Church." 


And he's correct. asking for money when people are down fiscally, well, it just isn't ethical.

Telling people they got to give money to the church when they're out of work, telling them that  their kids are "Going Hell" ....I'm sorry, but you don't know who is going and who is not. And a lot of people are probably not going to make it, people you like, and somehow in your mind, you think because they are "on your side" they are going to make it...

You don't know.....And I don't either.

Leave people alone. Let them teach their kids however they see fit. They're their kids, not yours.

 And often, you need to be paying attention to your kid. They're not all "darlings" like you think they are....