I was trying to find a website for a festival I want to apply to and ended up finding a church website that proclaimed in large letters "Who says Church is stuffy! Who says God isn't fun!"
I guess they don't bother with the Old Testament, then.
Oh yes...God has a weekly poker night, didn't you know! And never mind his Saturday night shenanigans...no wonder the guy needs to rest on Sundays...
Man...the old testament...making laws, creating the world, smiting the heretics...turning the world into a giant swimming pool...and raining fire on poor innocent cities like Sodom and Ghammora...
No...he's not serious at all!
Though I like to think he does have a rather bizarre and quirky sense of humor. :)
They really do make an "Extreme Teen Bible." My grandmother got me one several years ago. It's bright green and has modern-day stories tacked onto the end of various books. It didn't quite make it on my list of books to take to college with me.
*starts to giggle helplessly, and then falls off her chair, laughing*
I just got home from singing in Holy Thursday services, and your timing just could not have been better. I sat in the choir, watching as everyone lined up to get his/her feet washed, and then watched as the priests filled the church with incense smoke, paraded the Host around the church (while we all sang something rather sad) and then locked it up until Easter. The organ was also silenced until Easter Vigil (since Good Friday is the most solemn day of the liturgical calendar). We all filed out in silence, when it was over.
How could I have missed all the fun, there! Clearly, the foot thing is some sort of kinky fetish, that I just didn't get! And what I thought was the aroma of incense? Undoubtedly dope!
If mass genocide of a native people (Canaanites) in order to free up valuable land space for a group of nomads (Isrealites) is considered fun, then perhaps YHWH fits that bill.
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Date: 2005-03-25 01:57 am (UTC)Man...the old testament...making laws, creating the world, smiting the heretics...turning the world into a giant swimming pool...and raining fire on poor innocent cities like Sodom and Ghammora...
No...he's not serious at all!
Though I like to think he does have a rather bizarre and quirky sense of humor. :)
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Date: 2005-03-25 02:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-25 02:11 am (UTC)Or...instead of an hour's service...we here at Extreme Church believe in all day mass! That's right...praying...all day! And no pee breaks!
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Date: 2005-03-25 02:32 am (UTC)Almost makes me want to attend Mass.
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Date: 2005-03-25 02:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-25 02:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-25 02:29 am (UTC)I just got home from singing in Holy Thursday services, and your timing just could not have been better. I sat in the choir, watching as everyone lined up to get his/her feet washed, and then watched as the priests filled the church with incense smoke, paraded the Host around the church (while we all sang something rather sad) and then locked it up until Easter. The organ was also silenced until Easter Vigil (since Good Friday is the most solemn day of the liturgical calendar). We all filed out in silence, when it was over.
How could I have missed all the fun, there! Clearly, the foot thing is some sort of kinky fetish, that I just didn't get! And what I thought was the aroma of incense? Undoubtedly dope!
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Date: 2005-03-25 02:37 am (UTC)You need to attend Extreme Church! You'd never be bored there. All of their songs are double-time.
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Date: 2005-03-25 04:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-25 03:49 pm (UTC)I'd better stop talking about this subject now, before I start offending...though it might already be too late.
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Date: 2005-03-26 06:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-25 05:23 am (UTC)If mass genocide of a native people (Canaanites) in order to free up valuable land space for a group of nomads (Isrealites) is considered fun, then perhaps YHWH fits that bill.
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Date: 2005-03-25 03:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-26 06:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-25 12:17 pm (UTC)(And it has Alan Rickman...)
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Date: 2005-03-25 03:43 pm (UTC)Your icon is absolutely hysterical.