Am I allowed to offended by a funeral sermon?
Here I am sitting in this funeral and little old Hindu me is analyzing all these Christian hymns. This wasn’t what I was offended by but they make life seem so awful and pointless and the only good thing about it is death which idk but I think there are a lot of good things about life that are better than death or “heaven”. And then they said heaven was a place of endless joys which I don’t know about you but that doesn’t sound that great. It sounds like sloth actually. The joy of life is the struggle. The work to become better and become closer and overcome problems and become better people. What would you do all day in heaven? Sit around and watch tv? But Christian hymns aside, I was sitting there listening to the man and he begins to talk about other religions. And he said that other religions would be confused or disturbed by what is going on here because other religions do not understand how to celebrate a persons passing and all they do is grieve. But he didn’t just say this, he yelled it on the top of his lungs. And I wasn’t expecting if and it just rang through my ears and I was just about to stand up and tell the man no. And I looked at my brother (he’s an atheist) and he just had this annoyed look on his face. I AM RIGHT HERE. I AM A HINDU WOMAN WHO IS NOT DISTURBED BY YOUR PROCEEDING BECAUSE I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF CELEBRATING A PERSON MOVING ON. In our religion, which you may so conveniently forgot about, there is something called reincarnation and I don’t know about all Hindus but West Indians celebrate that. But then there’s more. He talks about other stuff for a little bit and I calm down ‘he’s an old white man he probably doesn’t know very much about other religions. Since he’s the pastor he probably thinks he can says whatever in his church it’s okay. Don’t worry about him.’ But then he starts yelling again. And he says ‘ONLY IN CHRISTIANITY WILL PEOPLE FIND SALVATION.’ And he goes on about how there is only an afterlife or anything after death in Christianity. Then of course “Christianity is the only way.” And I was just so upset again. This man has died. He was already a Christian. Stop with whatever you’re doing and just talk about him or him being in heaven or whatever but now is not the time to promote Christianity. (AND THERE IS AN AFTERLIFE IN PLENTY OF OTHER RELIGIONS. EXAMPLE: ME.) But that idea is just so awful for me. Sermon time is not the time to put down other religions and bring up your own. You would never hear in a Hindu temple “Hinduism is the only way!!” No. You will hear them praying and asking for blessings and that is it. In a Hindu wake after someone has died, they ask for blessings and sing and never is there a mention of any other religion. Nobody cares if there is only an afterlife in Hinduism (which I’m sure is not true) but it doesn’t even matter. If I marry my juni bear I really hope he doesn’t make me go to Catholic Church oh god. I will be so upset after every single sermon. And he wants our ushio to be catholic! No way. For a child, a monkey god and elephant god and a blue man is so much cooler than a old white man. But Christianity is just frustrating to me. I don’t understand any of it.