The modern dance holds many dangers for the Christian both young and old. I once knew a Christian couple who would go to clubs with the intent of "picking each other up" at these different establishments. I suppose that they got some measure of enjoyment and a certain thrill out of doing this. However, it was not very long before one of them was engaged in an adulterous situation and the church was moved to withdraw fellowship from this person. Their marriage ended in divorce and their children separated from mother and father. Oh how that couple wishes that they had never gone to such places and participated in such reckless abandon with their Christianity. Let us resolve not to make the same mistake in our lives and avoid the modern dance.
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"However, it was not very long before one of them was engaged in an adulterous situation and the church was moved to withdraw fellowship from this person."
If that were me, I'd tell the church a hearty "FUCK YOU" and not have anything to do with those holier-than-thou fucksticks. My sex life is nobody's business but mine and my wife's.
And guess what, if they wanted to commit adultery, they would have anyway regardless if they went dancing or not.
P.S. Why don't fundamentalist Christians have sex standing up? It might lead to dancing.
Oh yes, it MUST have been the evil dancing that caused it, and not any sort of flaws in the people themselves.
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to dance... "
Your case stories don't mean anything. Something happening to one or two people out of nearly 7,000,000,000 is not an indicator of anything.
seems like people who have trouble keeping their junk in their pants.
not a problem with dancing, just with these people who can't handle grinding
Look, just because your wife left you for someone at a club, does not mean that all people who go clubbing are bad people.
However, it was not very long before one of them was engaged in an adulterous situation and the church was moved to withdraw fellowship from this person.
Let me get this straight - when one of your flock falters, which by your own tenets they are all pretty likely to do sooner or later, the response of the church of your allegedly loving god is not to comfort, advise or support them but to fucking cast them adrift?
Well, guess what?! My high school church group had to sit through a love triangle unfolding every Sunday morning, and that was after two other teens who met at church started having premarital adolescent sex.
(Oh, how that couple wishes they had never gone to church and participated in guitar sing-alongs with such reckless abandon.)
I'm sure we can find marriages that broke up because one of them was a nut-bag, Bible-thumping, holy-rolling fundamentalist, too.
Thejebusfire wrote:
"Also, dancing doesn't lead to sex." Unfortunately. :-(
The bible says that David danced. He also had sex with anything that moved, marriage not withstanding. And yet he was, favored in the eyes of your God.
I don't think your god gives a fig about dancing or adultery.
so the message is never have fun.
just like usual, right, thanks for reminding us why we never listen to you.
Let us resolve not to make the same mistake in our lives and avoid the modern dance.
Their marriage ended in divorce and their children separated from mother and father. Oh how that couple wishes that they had never gone to such places and participated in such reckless abandon with their Christianity. Let us resolve not to make the same mistake in our lives and avoid the modern dance.
It has to be the dancing! Married christian never have extramarital affairs without the dacing.
Seriously, grow up. As a former christian I can tell you for a fact, as I'm sure many other can as well, it's not as if there are not so-called "good christians" having affairs with other married members in a vast majority of congregations. The church I went to, and the other churches in the same social network were filled with internal politics, social backstabbing, marital infidelity, and holier-than-thou one-upsmanship. But I already no your response... "Not my church! Not my congregation! We are all good christians! It has to be the evil and immoral dancing that forced them to have an affair, because we don't have people like that in our church. " and so on, and so forth. Never willing to admit that there could be anything other than moral failings responsible, blaming a host of things as "of the devil" rather than face the stark and unavoidable truth that you, and all your co-religionist, are flawed and imperfect.
Wait, so they went to clubs ("dances," as you call them, as if this were 1955), and pretended to pick each other up to act out a naughty fantasy? And then the church had to relocate to get the hell away from them?
Modern religion holds many dangers for the Christian both young and old. I once knew a Christian couple who would go to churches with the intent of "picking each other up" at these different establishments. I suppose that they got some measure of enjoyment and a certain thrill out of doing this. However, it was not very long before one of them was engaged in an abusive situation and the club was moved to withdraw fellowship from this person. Their marriage ended in divorce and their children separated from mother and father. Oh how that couple wishes that they had never gone to such places and participated in such reckless abandon with their Christianity. Let us resolve not to make the same mistake in our lives and avoid modern religion.
Its the danger to the old Christians that's the worst. I know an old Christian couple who broke their hips trying modern dances. (The upside is that when they prayed to be cured, it never happened, and they realised Religion is self-delusion.)
We can dance if we want to
We can go when we want to
~Men Without Hats
Explain to me how this invalidates all those couples who have been married for 20+ years, have children who think they're the best parents ever, and yet met each other at dance clubs and bars.
Re: acting out a fantasy: Didn't think of that. If anything, people like this are why churches are said to be sex-phobic.
I hardly think The Nutcracker triggers bacchanalian flesh frenzies.
fwiw, I had a gal sometime back to tell me some Baptists think dancing is evil because John the Baptist lost his head due to a dance.
"not very long before one of them was engaged in an adulterous situation and the church was moved to withdraw fellowship from this person"
I will bet that it was the woman who was cast out from this church.
Hmmmm, if the measure you described was recently added, maybe it was an attempt to spice up a marriage that was already on the rocks. Not the cause of the breakup but an attempt to avoid one. It's not the most random or "odd" thing people have tried to rekindle a dying spark inside of marriage. Or maybe not, if I was at a club with a partner and they got really into a Beyonce sng it would probably be over for us.
“However, it was not very long before one of them was engaged in an adulterous situation and the church was moved to withdraw fellowship from this person.”
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