Can you imagine if Jesus actually showed up for that service? The first-century Galilean apocalyptic radical is somehow transported through time and space ala Bill and Ted’s phone-booth, and he can understand English and has a social context for the gathering “in his name”…I imagine him fashioning a whip and driving people out of their seats saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of retards.”
Hopefully, after his mini-sermon Jesus mounts one of the mimes and beats him into submission… ’cause that would be awesome!
Ok, a client just gifted me this site today. My abs and throat already hurt from laughing and I’ve only been at it for 1/2 an hour.
What Evangelical Christendom most desperately needs is another 500 sites like this — sites run by people who stand up in what the true prophetic calling of Christ and His Church really is: the call to truth in the face of that which is SO overwhelmingly and pervasively, yes, “Retarded.”
Then, just maybe, the general public will start waking up, cut off the funding that keeps these people on the air and demand a real relationship with the living God.
March 19th, 2010 at 9:34 am
The Holy Ghost Hokey Pokey OMG – you have got to be f’ing kidding me: The B.S. for the physical healing was bad enough, but this takes the cake:
“Be careful. The part where they try to heal memories by “putting the whole head in” may, possibly injure your own psyche to the extent that you will need to sing the hokey pokey hoping for a healing of your own memories.”
So, will you be bringing this technique to your counselling practice now?
Just when you thought things in Christendom couldn’t get any worse!
March 19th, 2010 at 10:05 am
oh and just to clarify, when I said “Just when you thought things in Christendom couldn’t get any worse” I was not referring to Scotteriology.
March 19th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Hi Cal, And after watching a few more videos of Rick Joyner, Todd Bentley, et al. posted on Scott’s site, I’m;
a. adding scotterology [sp?} to my blog roll; and
b. adding a new category to my own blog: seriously weird Christian $hit, where all those videos shall find a home. OMG.
March 20th, 2010 at 1:39 am
Hi Kathy,
I hear you. There’s just an explosion of this sort of stuff out there. Nearly every day on so many blog sites and even major outlets, yet another religious leader manages to find an even more creative way to spit in the face of Christ. It’s not a few random nuts anymore — it’s just everywhere and the stupidity level seems to know absolutely no bounds!
On the one level, I know the Church will stand — on the other, it’s really hard not to grieve for the Church as though it were already dead.
Either the remaining sane people in the Church stand up and fight (and real quick too), or they are very rapidly going to see what North America understands to be the Church going extinct.
Cal
March 21st, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Hi Cal,
We used to go to a church whose worship leader was practically in tears when he led worship.
Did you watch some of the “Worship Videos?” You spin me right round Jesus???? The Holy Ghost Hoe Down??? And the blog entry “Jesus is not your Boyfriend”
Wow. All I can say to those is “And Jesus Wept.”
March 22nd, 2010 at 1:50 am
Hi Kathy,
No kidding — he’s not gonna be running short of blog material any time soon…
Cal