I don't usually write reviews, but after recently writing a great review for a church in Lincoln that actually restored my faith, I thought I'd write a review here:
A few years ago I saw that this church was open to all. I had some time to kill and decided to go inside and look around, I'd have passed this church hundreds of times and had always been curious.
Anyway, I go inside and I see it's some sort of event for refugees or whatnot. That's not what the 1 star is in relation to. I was met with nothing but pure seething hatred from the organisers of the event. Some old gentleman snarkily asking "Why are you here?" When I said I wanted to look around as its open and I've never been inside "You know Google exists, you could just uh look it up?"
Absolutely disgusting and appalling behaviour. I don't know if he was there for an event or runs the place, I don't know, all I know is this single event put me off of faith until I found myself at a better, kind and more approachable church.
This might not even run as a church anymore, I'm not sure, so before the owner or organisor responds with "Erm this isn't a church" the mere fact I was hit with such seething dismissive and spiteful...
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