I just wanted to see what everyone's thought was on this. Recently, we have had to switch churches due to some changes and compromising in our church. When we started looking for a new church, we realized that they were only about 4 in the whole state of Missouri that was still a solid church. We then started looking at other church website's around the coutry that are/were solid, independent baptist churches, it seemed as if they had changed. We would look at the photo galleries, and see mixed swimming, youth activites with teens dressed immodestly, and even contemporary concerts. What is happening?
We even looked at a so-called indpendent baptist church in Texas where they recently had a contemporary artist singing in their church! The pastor of this church is very well known, and it was a big dissapointment to me. The pastor is still preaching in large conferences at good churches today.
It seems that even colleges are changing by adding water parks and surf teams to their campus. Are we at Bible college to serve God and learn about the Bible or are we here to get away from mom and dad and have some fun? It appears that volleyball teams now wear shorts to play in, whereas 10 years ago they were still in cullotes, and I don't mean loose fitting shorts. I recently heard Bro. Tony Hutson preach "Old Time Religion" and it was such a blessing to me. He mentioned that churches would still be prospering and souls being saved, if we still had the old time religion. I guess they think the old time religion is just too "old" for this generation.
Maybe it's just me, but it sure seems like it's happening around the country.
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When all the churches are changing, shouldn't that be a sign that your beliefs are outdated? That you're on the lunatic fringe?
OH NOES! Wearing shorts to play volleyball!
mixed swimming, youth activites with teens dressed immodestly, and even contemporary concerts < God forbid that boys be able to see girls in public! And god forbid that kids be able to dress comfortably for physical activities! And Music! OH NOES!
I don't know what's more terrifying about this girl, either that she thinks that churches are à la carte, like in a restaurant, or that she thinks that anything new is bad by default. Ok, let's go to that Old Time Religion, but with all the consequences, you know, with high mortality, with racism, with wars, famine..............
What's happening? Maybe what's happening is, little by little, even the duller breeds of Christians are being dragged into the 20th, if not the 21st, century.
You know, in Iran the soccar team (men only, of course,) still wear long pants. Maybe you could convent to Islam and get some "old time religion" over there.
Yeah the times, they are a-changin'.
Hey, didja know that Bob Dylan is a true Prophet?
"I recently heard Bro. Tony Hutson preach "Old Time Religion" and it was such a blessing to me. He mentioned that churches would still be prospering and souls being saved, if we still had the old time religion."
This is the famous recorded hot-button pressing speech number 24. According to your own doctrine, none of this ranting amounts to anything and the ONLY door to salvation is telepathically asking "Jesus-your-lord-and-savior-hallowed-be-his-name-amen" for forgiveness. What does that do to all your guilt-inducing screwed-up rules?
"Old Time Religion"
The kind where man jumped and grunted and bowed down before the mystical bright hurty branch that cooked his food?
Oh, I see. You mean "Old Time Religion" in that newfangled 1800's revisionist sense, the kind that says you shouldn't be asking questions like this, you should wait until you're in the privacy of your home and ask your husband , you dirty fraternizing slut.
-pb
I'm looking for a church that offers mixed nude wrestling, and happy hour before Sunday services.
I'm looking for a church that burns the right incense, and rocks out to fusion.
I'm looking for a church where three-year-olds preach, because they are the only ones that can really make sense about the stuff that matters.
Why don't you just blindfold yourself and move into a cardboard fucking box? Nothing will ever be "Godly" enough for you. No one will ever live up to your expectations and even if they did, I'm sure you'd still talk smack about them. Your "Old Time Religion" thought nothing of lynching non whites, burning people of other faiths out of their homes and many other social atrocities I won't bother naming. You are a perfect candidate for Jonestown. It's just too bad you are 30 years too late.
We would look at the photo galleries, and see mixed swimming, youth activites with teens dressed immodestly, and even contemporary concerts.
In other words, total anarchy.
I hear the "Ole Time Religion" is really popular in Iran this year. True, they may be Muslims but it appears that you would find everything else that they do agreeable. I guess fundies is fundies, no matter where.
" We would look at the photo
galleries, and see mixed swimming, youth activites with teens dressed immodestly, and even
contemporary concerts. What is happening?"
Islamic law is not being applied. Yes I know it's a trajedy, but you can still move to Saudi Arabia where those things are not allowed.
Does T4C run an actual 'church' anywhere?
If they do, the cult-buster people needs to investigate it... well, the cult-buster people needs to investigate them anyway, but an actual church run by T4C is a disturbing thought indeed.
"Are we at Bible college to serve God and learn about the Bible or are we here to get away from mom and dad and have some fun?"
If it's not the latter, it's not college.
"Are we at Bible college to serve God and learn about the Bible or are we here to get away from mom and dad and have some fun?"
Maybe on 1 and 2, definite yes on 3 and 4.
I have two children. My daughter stands firm on her faith because she has taken what we taught her and has made it her own. My son, on the other hand, did not make those biblical teachings his own. He goes to church...reads his Bible....but his hair is longer now, his music has changed, his soon-to-be wife (Oct 5) wears pants... He has swallowed the lie of the devil that it is ok to be more like the world.
From Mrs. Debbie, in the same thread.
It speaks for itself.
I am the devil because I'm wearing pants right now!
You know, I loved old-time religion... I remember when my dad took me to Inanna's temple on my fourteenth birthday to fuck the high priestess. Lots of fun, especially since it was the last time I got laid until I was 26.
Give me some of that old time religion! HAIL ZEUS! HAIL ODIN!
Seriously, lady...the truth is, you and the rest of Randy's Sad Sacks are being left in the dust. Come join the rest of us in the 21st century.
"We would look at the photo galleries, and see mixed swimming, youth activites with teens dressed immodestly, and even contemporary concerts. What is happening?"
Your bunch has been Left Behind by civilization, that's what is happening.
Oh noes, a contemporary artist! Since when did God say we weren't allowed to associate with or listen to them?
Oh noes, mixed swimming! Since when did God say we weren't allowed to swim with members of the opposite sex AT THE SAME TIME?
Oh noes, water parks and surf teams at bible college! Since when did God say we weren't allowed to have fun?
Meh, everything's just happening the way it's meant to. I'm not worried, and if she actually read and paid attention to the Bible like she should, she's agree with me. Silly goose.
Ark
Wait, you were LOOKING AT PHOTOS OF MIXED SWIMMING? I thought that constituted porn to you freaks? Bluegrass Girl, you have some serious repenting to do.
And there's a reason why that "old time religion" is now so hard to find: that kind of bullshit has long since stopped working and people with fully functional brains want nothing to do with the batshit insane drivel you like.
Yeah, gimme that old time religion! Fire, Brimstone, Tormence, Bloodshed etc etc.
Church I used to go to sounds like exactly what she's looking for. Hymns only, cullotes on every female (little girls included), no "co-ed bathing", and no volleyball at all for girls.
It makes me hyperventilate with anger to even think about that place now.
What do you suppose will happen when Bluegrass Girl discovers that her "old time religion" only dates back to 1912 when the the first edition of "the fundamentals" was published? I'm kidding of course.
A fundamentalist learning something, hah!
Confused?
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