Pastor refuses to bury long-time member over lack of tithes

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By Rick Couri
HOUSTON, Tx — The daughter of 93-year-old Olivia Blair couldn’t believe it when Fourth Missionary Baptist Church pastor Walter Houston refused to bury her mother.

“It was like the last insult in the world,” Barbara Day told KRIV in Houston. Day said her only wish was for her mother to be buried “in the church that she loved and worshiped all of her life, even as a little girl.”

Day explained her mother was a church member for 50 years but had been sick for nearly a decade, and in a coma for the last 24 months.

Preacher watchdog Tyrone Jacques met with Houston and asked him to reconsider. KRIV writes, in that meeting Houston refused, telling him Blair was, “no longer a member of the church because she had not supported it financially in the last 10 years.”

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[newfie11]

1. Great Christians! Nt

[rurallib]

2. it really is all about the benjamins

[johnp3907]

3. "Preacher watchdog?"

[Warren DeMontague]

4. I gotta go to the eye doctor.

I had to read that three times.

[bvf]

5. This comes as no surprise. n/t.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Here's the lovely 'Reverend' now. All glad and moneyed and shit...

[monmouth4]

25. Preacher or pimp....n/t

[Turbineguy]

7. Ah yes,

Christians.














Well sort of anyway.

[LeftyMom]

8. "And they will know we are Christians by our love!"

Hrmph.

[madamesilverspurs]

9. Ahem, Rev --

Mene, Mene, Teqel, Upharsin . . .

[Ilsa]

14. Let's hope it ends swiftly. nt

[Retrograde]

10. Burying the dead is one of the corporal works of mercy

that good Christians (well, at least Catholics) are supposed to do

[bluesbassman]

11. I thought it was the Devil that's supposed to get his due.

Guess Old Scratch and Houston have something in common.

[Thinkingabout]

12. Would bet when she arrives at the Pearly Gates she will arrive to open arms.

[bullwinkle428]

13. Times like this make me wish Jesus would actually make a genuine

"Second Coming", and deliver ass-kickings to those who so richly deserve it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. So she paid tithes for 40 of her 50 years of church membership but that wasn't enough

If Gordon Gecko actually existed, he would be taking notes.

[SomethingFishy]

16. You gotta love Christianity...

"What? You were too sick to give to the church from the ages of 80-90? Go. Fuck. Yourself."

Where do I sign up?

[cyberswede]

17. There's never a lightning strike around when you need one.

What a horrible person.

[tblue37]

18. Yes--and we should do our part to make sure he is widely exposed

to the shame he deserves.

[KinMd]

19. There's a cover charge to get into Heaven?

bet the good Reverend drives a Lexus or Escalade

[TlalocW]

20. I'm willing to bet

That the two criteria that I use to instantly judge if a church is about enriching the pastor(s) instead of actually about being a church (even if I don't agree with its particular theology slant) can be found around the Houston neighborhood that the church is in:

1. They have billboards advertising themselves
2. The pastor's smiling face is featured heavily on them.

The first one will normally give me pause. The second one always seals the deal (especially when not just one pastor is featured on it but a husband-wife pastoral team is).

TlalocW

[lpbk2713]

21. Subscription past due.

Who knew church membership was like subscribing to cable TV.

[Sgent]

22. We had to pay

one years dues in arrears when my grandfather was buried. Jewish synagogues generally have a membership fee rather than tithes. Although the board of directors can (and do) give a large number of scholarships or reduced fees to many members unable to afford the dues. My synagogue has dues of $250 / month.

[Derek V]

23. Appropriately preceded by an ad...

[onethatcares]

24. Jesus wept

n/t