Following on from previous posts on the people of the church, I was astounded to witness some stunning bad manners this evening.
Working with young people as I do, you come to accept, that some peoples moral code is perhaps not similar to yours, and that is of course fine. I do however, get very cross, when I witness bad manners. One of the elderly gentlemen of the Church was coming in as my young people were leaving, and a polite greeting of “Good evening” was proffered. This greeting was largely ignored, and met only with an impatient “Humph”. Young people of today are we are told regularly by the Daily Mail, rude and inconsiderate, and the moral decline of the country is a source of great concern to the readers. The lack of God in their lives is also proffered as a contributory factor. The sad thing to report is, and I’m sure you’d guessed already, that the greeting was in fact offered up by the young man rather than the older gentleman. Of course this is no reason to blame the religious beliefs of the man, but the fact that he was attending a course on Lent. Now I do not offer myself up as a religious expert, in fact I try to avoid the subject, but I thought that Lent was the time where the Christian church encourages its followers to look at their own sins, as they were the reason for Jesus ending up on the cross. Well I might politely, and perhaps piously suggest that this gentleman might have a bit of reviewing to do. As for the young man, he merely raised his eyes to the ceiling and said “Typical”. What a way to encourage young people into your church.
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