Funerals have included religious expressions for as many millennia as we have records and/or evidence, whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu ....... etc., etc., etc.. Has
vercetti2021 never read Greek or Roman classics like the Iliad or Aeneid? Has
vercetti2021 never seen pictures and descriptions of Pharaonic, Egyptian nobles' and bureaucrats' tombs and funerary preparations?
Whole lotta
DU-Ignorance on display in that thread.
When pastors/ministers/priests do a funeral service, they and the customs followed are what the deceased and the immediate family of the deceased CHOSE. And DUmmies like
vercetti2021 and the other DU-folk on that thread railing against a normal funeral are being
BOORS.
ETA: Just glanced through the 34 posts on the thread, and not one reply even hinted that what
vercetti2021 actually railed against was what was chosen by the deceased and the immediate family.
I'm an Evangelical Christian, raised in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, which is theologically conservative, and over the past few decades have been a member, variously, of charismatic and Baptist congregations. If I'm at a Catholic funeral or wedding, it doesn't bother me that mass is celebrated. That is normal, that is what the family chose. If I'm at a Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, etc. funeral or wedding, it doesn't bother me that the customs of that religion are followed (and I will make discrete inquiries to make sure I don't do anything that distracts from those customs ... that's just normal respect). That is normal, that is what the family chose. If the funeral or wedding is non-religious, that doesn't bother me, be cause that is what the family chose, their normal.
And those DU-folk venting their collective spleen on that thread would view me as intolerant and themselves as tolerant. 
