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[Mary-Jane]

Down south in Korea, my elderly aunt is regularly visited by a Christian church group. They enter her apartment with ridiculously happy smiles plastered over their faces and sit around asking inane sounding questions, occasionally sing hymns, pray, etc. Despite the fact that she is clearly poor, in debt, and struggling to make ends meet for her family, they never fail to come round or to always ask her for donations, which she gives to them under a belief that she *has* to.

She and my other aunt are convinced that they must throw themselves wholeheartedly into doing whatever the church groups suggest, or they won't get into heaven. The whole blackmailing, uncaring, money-hungry appearance of many church groups here leaves a sick taste in my mouth. At my grandmother's funeral, my aunts shelled out several hundred dollars for a brief Christian service alongside the huge traditional funeral. About eight people showed up and one of them played hymn music on a little electric keyboard in the corner. They all said some prayers, shook hands, and left. All that took no more than 20 minutes at the most. The next day, on the morning of the actual burial, the church group phoned to say that none of them would be coming to the burial as they had previously promised, and expensive transport had already been booked for them. It was appalling.

That experience plus the shiny eyed religious maniacs who come up and bother me in the street with false smiles and laughable leaflets sours religion to me no end. Maybe I don't see the good side of Christianity here as I don't attend church or speak the language, but as a foreigner and visitor I am pretty disgusted by what I've encountered.

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