There are some bad messed up, well, honestly, fucked up theological beliefs out there.....
And this is the reason why the "minister" said this?
I often see many of you doing genealogical research on your families, and the older you get, well, the more curious you get just where the hell did we come from.....It's why a lot of us have spit in a tube and sent it to Ancestry.com. ( Not sure those bastards have gotten it right....) It's why we use the site Family Search. Again, not sure they are correct either.
Plus those of us who consider themselves "historians" it gives us an excuse to do research because, well, take grad classes in history, well, you love spending hours in the stacks, and looking at primary sources.....
So, at one time I had this critter, who was a pastor at a fairly good sized church. ( Don't get me started on denominations.)
Doing research, neither sets of my grandparents were married in a church....
My paternal grandparents eloped and were married by a judge in Orange. And they literally were just kids. He was 16, she was 14.
I wish I knew more about their background, history, marriage.
My maternal, a little more interesting story....
Both of my Mom's parents were well into their 20s when they married.
My grandfather who was an accountant in town, went at lunch and got my grandmother who was a teller at the bank, and went to the Justice of the Peace and got married during their lunch hour. Again, an elopement. ( Or as the late musician Kinky Friedman called it, "antelope.")
And didn't take the rest of the day off, went back to work.
After they got off work, they went and told their families. My grandmother's family knew it was coming.....My grandfather's family just lost it. A combination of "She wasn't good enough." Never mind her dad was a foreman at the cotton gin. Plus, it " Wasn't his turn to get married. Two older sisters were supposed to marry next.....Again, an early 1900s tradition I do not understand and it was explained to me more than once.....Again, people didn't understand it back then."
And my great grandmother and my grandfather's sisters all sat up all night crying.
So, Kerry, Old Govteach, Mr. Thomas...Why are you going to Hell?
It seems that because my grandparents were not married, by a " Minister of the Gospel" they were " Living in Sin" and all their offspring are " Doomed and Damned to Devil's Hell."
And the scary part is, there are people who today in 2025 believe such clap trap.
Another of these people who use the Old Testament for their fucked up belief system.....It's like the damn Southern Baptists who used Micah as a way to extort tithe money from people....Yeah, ignore the part about not eating ham,bacon, catfish, shrimp, etc.......Hell, bacon is tasty......
I wonder what the minister would think if he knew I often was paid in Irish Whisky for my officiating services? I'm sure he'd have me condemned to one of Dante's " Inner Circles of Hell."
But seriously, if you find out historical tidbits about you family, write it down, there is going to be a child, grandchild, great-great grandchild etc. who is going to want to know. ( Most of my life I have had an aunt who said we have Cherokee Indian in our family.....Married some " Indian Princess." which I have always said " No" and explained to the family to believe that BS why.
Indian "Princess." Again, more fantasy. Ain't no Indian. I might believe an Indian from New Delhi before Oklahoma Cherokee.....And if a family member married a Cherokee girl, he more than likely would have bought some 13 year old girl for a jug of whisky.
Okay, might be time to discuss the Buna ISD....and I got questions.....
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