After he lost his 27-year-old youngest son, Mathew, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 5, Pastor Rick Warren, one of the most prominent Christian ministers in the United States, is receiving an outpouring of consolation and prayers from both his Saddleback Church in Orange County and the Web.

"Kay and I are overwhelmed by your love, prayers, and kind words," the pastor tweeted on Sunday.

But, at the same time a shocking number, who disagree with his faith, are attacking him on various website comment boards.

"Either there is no God, or God doesn't listen to Rick Warren, despite all the money Rick has made off of selling false hope to desperate people," one poster wrote on USA Today.

On Monday, Megyn Kelly, Fox News personality, discussed those haters' comments on her show, by saying, "(those comments are) shocking, disgusting and hard to understand. ...I'm not going to give a voice to the haters because these are people who are in a dark place."

Warren also takes to social media to address his "haters." "Grieving is hard. Grieving as public figures, harder. Grieving while haters celebrate your pain, hardest," he wrote on Facebook on Monday night.

Some added pain to the Warrens' world by debating whether someone once saved can lose his or her salvation if he or she suicides. But professor Bruce Kwiatkowski from University of Toledo in OH posted on Facebook: "I appreciate what Pastor Ronald Cole said about the subject of Christian suicide. He said the Lord will say, 'We weren't expecting you yet...' "

John H. Armstrong, one facebook user, fought back saying, "I just blocked someone that I do not know from my wall for saying that Rick Warren's son went to hell. What is it with people being so sure that they know God's final judgment? I fear for people like this. This man added that Rick Warren was being judged for being a 'false prophet.' Pathetic, cruel and reckless all come to mind. If I've seen the evidence of a false prophet this comes close."

Matthew Warren, who struggled from birth with mental illness, died in his home in Mission Viejo, Calif.

Rick Warren described his son as a "kind, gentle and compassionate man". He said, "Kay and I often marveled at his courage to keep moving in spite of his relentless pain. I'll never forget how, many years ago, after another approach had failed to give relief, Matthew said, 'Dad, I know I'm going to heaven. Why can't I just die and end this pain?' but he kept going for another decade."

The Warren family is loved by so many. No building in Orange County is large enough to hold an open memorial service. So the church leaders announced that Matthew's memorial would be private.