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Well writen gomedome
It sounded like Dave Barry at a Holy Roller tent revival. They do carry on, don't they. Fortunately for the good guys, as bizarro as the methods may be, the message itself is harmless so it's okay. Imagine some other time and place where the initiation ceremony was similar but the message was hate and war. Hitler worked so well because he was the ultimate entertainer, bad luck for the hard working German people that his agenda was evil. It didn't have to be, he could have been somebody else like Napolean or Charlemgne who actually knew what they were doing, just bad luck he fancied death. Preachers pray on the crowds because it makes everybody feel good and gets paid for it, that's not so bad.
posted by
pappy
on February 3, 2005 at 4:28 PM
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Every church says they are the one.
When your young and have to go to church because your parents make you. I had to go to church 4 times a week sometimes. @ services on Sunday. Confirmation classes and choir rehearsal. As I grew up I left the church. Their was a group who could do no wrong. While another group only in thier eyes could do not right. I saw it senseless to even go. Then because I did not agree with them they tell me they were going to make me pay for the sins of the church and I had to die like Jesus Christ. So I left and never went back. Actually I believe in God ! But I do not believe you have to belong to a religion.
posted by
Experience
on February 3, 2005 at 2:54 AM
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Gome,
I have got to sympathize with you. I have seen the thing that you talk about many times over. The only one I ever went to was with a friend whose family was Oklahoma Baptists. It was a baptism in a flip-flap little church in South Phoenix. Fortunately, I only went for the entertainment of it. I didn't say a word about anything to anyone, I went only as an observer. That was just as well. My soul certainly had to be in the hands of Satan--I was never dunked in the Baptismal Dip Vat. I know that if anyone got wind of that, the whole congregation would have thrown me into the pukey looking vat. It even had green algae all over the sides. Someone would have probably have gone to his savior on that deal. I was just lucky, I guess.
Oh, I almost forgot: Bless You, Bless You, Bless You, Bless You, Bless You, Bless You, Bless You, Bless You, Bless You, Bless You, Bless You, Bless You..... JJ
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Jack_Flash
on February 3, 2005 at 12:38 AM
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