Extremely disturbing run-in with my partner's Mom's Fundie Church.

[KyndCulture]

I've been hanging on to this story since saturday but dammit I gotta tell somebody cause it's driving me insane.

My boyfriend's mother is an Assembly of God Fundementalist Christian. We disagree about everything and tend to avoid her when at all possible because it just gets ugly.

On Saturday, Mom calls HYSTERICALLY crying. My boyfriend (we've lived together for 7 yrs) gives me the "it's mom and she's crying" look on the phone. Here's what happened.

Friday night she went to her regular church meeting. The so-called elders of her "church" call her into the office and tell her that she is being asked to leave the church because her children are sinners. Her children being my partner and his 29 year old sister. They told her that if her children would not accept christ and be saved that she could no longer participate in their church. Well my boyfriend and me, and his sister and her husband are not about to be "saved" thank you very much. We are living in sin according to them, and his sister and her husband are childless by choice and all 4 of us are extremely vocal liberals in the community.

Ok, I know this is nuts - beyond the pale NUTS. She's been attending this church for 10 years. She's not all that stable (she takes meds for depression) and she is divorced. She trusts these church people like family.

So now we're dealing with a family crisis cause she's just hysterical.

We love Mom, but we do not want to discuss this. She is putting something off on the 4 of us that is just absolutely disgusting. I've never in my life heard of a church discharging a member for someone ELSES so called bullshit "sins"....

Does anyone have any thoughts on this batshit lunacy?