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Date Posted: 20:43:31 07/23/01 Mon
Author: Leo Pötsch
Subject: Leo Pötsch, kicked out of Church!

On the weekend, my esteemed fiancé and I decided to go to West Wales to a seaside resort for the day. The weather was far from perfect, and we took the opportunity to shelter in a church from the rain, which was open to the public and to get money obviously from the tourists.

We walked in, and in my naïveté, I completely forgot to remove my hat.

We wandered round for about twenty minutes as I explained quietly to my beloved, so that no-one could overhear, a little about religion in the West, etc. We paused for a moment at the prayer book, where she laughed at the fact that people write their problems openly in a book like that for all to read, and we decided not to light a candle either. We were respectful in the building, as it was the first church she had ever been in, hushed voices and reading the plaques carefully and with interest - "people really are buried under this gravestone?" - "Yeah, it was a thing they did; if you gave lot of money to the church, you got to buried INSIDE the building in those days."

We paused for a moment in front of the war memorial, something I have great respect for and I explained carefully.

We then intended to leave as we heard the rain easing off, and we wanted ice cream, and as we exited and were about to place a small financial donation in the box by the door, a church warden came up to me and she said with some venom that I should be more respectful than to wander round wearing a hat in Church and that we should leave. I smiled politely, nodded, removed my hat then replaced it whilst still within the building, and my beloved replaced the souvenir she had considered buying, and I stopped my hand from going any further towards placing my donation in the box.

We exited, and we had a conversation on the topic of "christian love", and the following day I dug out my copy of the Bible which I have in Chinese. She was favourably impressed by Mark 16:15-18.

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