A friend just sent me this website. Pentecostals are concerned about America's moral decline!

[Critters2]

I know I shouldn't laugh, but...:rofl:


http://awakeningamerica.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=4

[NC_Nurse]

1. We're not speaking in tongues enough. That must be it.

Too little snake-handling? Damn.

[peekaloo]

2. Bite your tongues!

[Prefer]

3. My friend once told me when I asked about them

I'm Baptist, and even I think those people are scary.

[MadMaddie]

4. Hmm they weren't concerned over the last 8 years but they

are now concerned?

[kestrel91316]

5. Moral decline, indeed. Do they mean stuff like LYING ABOUT

WINNING MISS CONGENIALITY???

[Fridays Child]

6. Has anyone checked with Fred yet?

Does God hate unwed mothers, too? :eyes:

[YOY]

7. Does their solution involve having a f***load of kids?

I'm gonna bet it does.

How the hell do they support all of them anyways?

[Critters2]

9. Abstinence only!

[Tallison]

8. Real piss-on-your-grave Christians there

They should issue WWJS bumper stickers (What Would Jesus Shoot?) Hint: Not a fetus!

:eyes:

[rebel with a cause]

12. Jesus probably was not a vegetarian (?) but

neither was he a hunter. He also (acording to the Bible) was not for war, was a peace maker, and believed that a rich man could not enter into the gates of heaven. If you were rich, you were suppose to give all you goods to the poor and live a more humble life. Oh my gosh, Jesus was a socialist!!! ;)

[Tallison]

15. Dorothy Day was my kind of Christian

From conception to grave, with economic justice for all.

(I'm pro-choice, myself, but admire her consistency).

[sakura]

10. They're worried about OUR moral decline.

Not their own.

[rebel with a cause]

11. Pentecostals are a whole new ballgame to Baptist

I grew up Free Will Baptist which was somewhere between Baptist and Church of God (a division of the pentecostals). Now my father (a minister) was a fanatic in many ways. We grew up not being allowed to wear slacks, dance, smoke, drink alcohol or go to certain places where alcohol might be served, and so on. My mother saved money from the household account and payed for us to go to movies and carnivals, places he didn't believe we should go but would not prohibit it. My father worked nights in the coal mines, and that was a blessing for us because my mother was a fun person at times, as was my father but his fun was more under his terms.

Unlike the Church of God girls, we could cut our hair, wear make-up, jewelry, play worldly music, and wear modern styled clothing at different lengths as long as it was considered decent. We ran around in groups of kids and had good times. Not all of our friends were Christians or even 'good kids'. ;)

Edit to add: this was meant to be in response to post 3.

[spin]

13. A Pentecostal told me I was headed for Hell...

unless I became a Pentecostal. I'm very polite so I didn't tell him my true feelings.

If what he said was true, I rather go to Hell rather than have to do an eternity in Heaven with people like him.

[rebel with a cause]

16. I grew up in a neighborhood with mostly Catholic

but had one Mormon family and one Jewish couple in the neighborhood also. We of course, were Baptist. When I was a little girl, one of my Catholic neighbor girls told me one day that I would burn in hell because I was not Catholic. I didn't say anything back but probably thought the same about her. ;)

When I lived in NYC I was told by an old Jewish woman that I had no soul and was the same as a dog. I didn't say anything back to her. What could I say? That I preferred dogs to people anyway. :shrug:

When I was attending an American Baptist church that was a high society church in the town, I listened as a Judge's wife related that heaven was going to be a place where people such as herself would be on one social level and those that she helped (financially) here on earth would be her servants and on a lower social level. I questioned her on this idea and she argued that this would be the way it would be. I then told her that I would rather go to hell than go to another world where life was based on the difference made between the haves and the have nots. She was shocked. I didn't go back to this church except for one last time and that was a whole different story on socially based Christianity.

The point of this is that there are always someone to tell you that you are going to hell or you are not going to heaven. Heck there are even those like the last example that makes you know you don't believe in heaven, or at least not in the way they do.

[Hugabear]

14. Pentecostals are absolutely the DUMBEST people in the entire world

I shit you not. Many of these people literally believe that dinosaurs never existed, that God placed the fossils in the ground to confuse humans and make it harder to believe him. They actually believe all the fairy tales in the bible. They don't even hesitate to justify the genocide that occurred in the Old Testament. When God told the Hebrews to kill 'every man, woman, and child' it's okay because they weren't the 'chosen people'.

They actually BELIEVE all that shit.

[rebel with a cause]

17. The problem comes that Christianity is suppose to be

based on the New Testament and not the Old Testament. The Old Testament is suppose to be the history of the old teachings and the coming of Christ was suppose to end most of that. The teachings of Christ was what Christianity is supposedly based on. I'm not saying that these teachings are perfect, but they are a whole lot kinder than those in the Old Testament.

When I read the Old Testament in my youth, I became so angry that I couldn't see straight. I went to talk to my father and he said this was not about Christianity, it was about the time before Christianity came about. That the coming of Christ ended those ways and except for the Ten Conmandments, those things were to be put away. Now these people have gone back to those old harsh teachings and made it a part of their religion.

These old teachings allow them to hate those that are different from them. These teachings allow them to pray for the death of those different from them and even to kill those different from them in God's name. these teachings allow too many bad things that they have not even came out with yet but I am afraid they have them in their mind. Lets just say that the Taliban go a lot by the old teachings.

By the way, my father warned me that he felt that anyone that studied the Bible too closely, and took it too literally, would become an athiest. I don't know what I've become, but it is not a 'church going, Bible quoting' Christian.