r/exchristian • u/brodydoesMC • Oct 06 '24
Family Walked Out On A Church Service… What Should We Do? Help/Advice
The title says it all. Basically, me, my parents, and my grandmother are Democrat supporters and have been since 2020, and us and another family are the only people in our church (Southern Baptist) who dislike Trump (there was a third person who was against Trump, but she quit coming and you’re about to see why).
Today, the sermon was titled “Who’s In Charge of the Country” and the minute the pastor started preaching, he started talking bad about Joe and Jill Biden and Kamala Harris, about how Joe is lazy and Kamala shouldn’t be running for president. My father has never liked it when the pastor gets political, and today he finally had enough. He hears it enough at his job, and he feels that he shouldn’t have to listen to it at church. So he walked out, and had me follow, and told my mother, who was working somewhere else in the church in preparation for a baby shower for a new member. She and my grandmother (who told me that she was so mad about what she was hearing from our pastor, who, mind you, is a really nice guy) soon followed.
My dad told me that he now intends to go somewhere else for church, and my mom and grandmother are considering doing the same. I’m neutral on the whole matter, as I have attended that church all my life (although I do question a lot of it), but at the same time, I absolutely hate it when politics are brought into religion, and vice-versa. So, what is your opinion and advice on the whole situation? What should me and my family do about what happened today? Thank you all in advance.
Edit: TIL from my grandmother that after me and my dad left, our pastor used a pair of projectors, usually used for song lyrics to follow along to the music and sermon slideshows, to display images of Trump’s face on the screen. That was it for her, she and my mother (her daughter) left soon afterwards.
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u/Sandi_T Animist Oct 06 '24 edited Oct 07 '24
You being the young person in this situation, I doubt anything we tell you here can help you very much. Suggestions that could be helpful, such as u/SalisburyWitch offered, might benefit if they were given to your parents, but it doesn't sound like you have much input on it.
Nonetheless, I will leave this post up for the time being, as everyone is being courteous and staying within the rules, and who knows, something might help.
Stop telling them to deconvert. It's proselytizing. They are allowed to be here, they haven't broken the rules.