HIGHWAY TO HELL

Strange story out of New Mexico. The local Catholic church in Chama, NM is being sued over a funeral. The family of Ben Martinez claims to be suffering emotional and physical harm because, allegedly, the priest said Martinez was a “middling Catholic”, “lukewarm in his faith” and was going straight to Hell.

Now, after you have stopped laughing, let’s look at this. Firstly, this is not a State matter, it’s a purely religious matter. If people can sue over emotional distress because the Church is telling them, “reform or damnation”, then there is no Church. Not that that’s all the Church does, but all true Christian churches have a Heaven and a Hell. Come on. Now I can understand that people would feel distress that someone they love (even themselves) is going to Hell, but that’s part of religion. If your precious feelings are going to be hurt, go to the Unitarian church.

Secondly, the priest was WAY out of line if he said Martinez was going to Hell. A simple call to the Bishop and they would have heard that no one, not even the Pope (God bless his holy soul) knows if a person is going to Heaven or Hell after death. The ways of the Lord are not our ways and when we die, if we go to Heaven, we’ll be surprised who we see and who we don’t.

Lastly, I got this report from Lucianne.com and the comments left on this story were truly sad. Most of them were from ignoramuses who were just bashing the Church, mostly along the lines of, “If the family just got out their credit cards…”. One happy moroon said, “Id rather go to hell than be bossed around by a group of effeminate pedophiles parading around as the voice of god. Jesus has long deserted this whore of a church.” It’s just very obvious that the Church is still misunderstood and still despised. For that, I am truly sad.