Another in the ongoing saga of religiosity makes people stupid.

[Hekate]

7. I am so sorry you and the bereaved family had to sit thru that evil heartless display...

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I’ve been to a few funerals where it was pretty clear the deceased hadn’t been well-known, or known at all, to the officiant. But there are ways of dealing with that, such as asking someone who does know.

But most of all, there are words available in every religion — words of compassion for the departed, words of compassion for the bereaved.

I have been to mainstream Christian funerals, Buddhist, Unitarian Universalist, Jewish (my late father in law had at least two rabbis at his graveside) — a mixed bag, to say the least. Some died of sudden illness, protracted illness, old age, even suicide. Some were devout, some less so. One was a SIDS baby, my only granddaughter. But never, ever, did the officiant use the occasion to rip the hearts of the bereaved.

I hope no member of that grieving family ever sets foot in that church again. That preacher is possessed by cruelty and evil. Shame on him — and shame in the congregation that keeps him.