I shouldnt laugh about death but this is so shallow and ludicrous that I cant help it. Though actually Im not laughing at all, this is solely about the Benjamins and greed. NEWS & POLITICS Raw Story / By David Edwards 35 COMMENTS Houston Pastor Refuses to Bury 93-Year-Old Woman Who Failed to Tithe Enough While in a Coma Daughter: All they care about is money money money! 35 COMMENTS35 COMMENTS A A A Email Print Barbara Day says church knew of her mothers illness. Photo Credit: via KRIV November 27, 2014 | Houston pastor has come under fire for refusing to bury a 93-year-old woman who had been a member of his church for 50 years but had not tithed enough as her death neared. Barbara Day told KRIV that she was devastated by the way pastor Walter F. Houston treated her when she contacted him about a funeral at Fourth Missionary Baptist Church for her mother, Olivia Blair. “It was like the last insult in the world, there was nothing else that I could do for my mommy but funeralize her in the church that she loved and worshiped all of her life, even as a little girl,” Day said, explaining that Houston told her that Blair “had not paid her dues, and she had not attended the church in recent years.” “For the last two years, my mother has been in either a nursing home or she’s been in a hospital,” she pointed out. “And the last few months, she was in a coma!” Day said that she could not understand why Houston would force her to find another place for the burial after her mother had supported him for so many years, and her stepfather had also been buried at the church. “There’s no explanation for anybody that has been paying dues for a church that long, for him to make me have to roll my mother’s body around town, and somebody finally picks her up and says, ‘Yeah, we’ll do the best we can,’” Day insisted. “They knew she was ill! They don’t care! All they care about is getting money money money money money!” “Even retail stores give people more respect than that,” she continued. “I don’t understand why we’ve become so commercialized with religion! What does this have to do with God? Why can’t I give my mother her last wish to be funeralized in a church that she loved so much?”
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