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Happy Halloween

10/30/09

Permalink 05:19:48 am, by dissidens Email , 58 words, 1042 views   English (US)
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Happy Halloween

Tomorrow is that day of the year when the immature among us dress up in fun costumes and say scary things in order to frighten us. I know if Shane Claiborne came to my door, I'd give him a Snickers.

And here are some Trick-or-Treaters now.

Don't they look more seasonally appropriate than a wagon full of pumpkins?

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1 Comment from: Jeremiah [Visitor] Email
Please pass the pumpkins!
PermalinkPermalink 10/30/09 @ 05:42

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2 Comment from: BLT [Visitor]
So, they have the power to "create a church" to their own liking. They sound just like a lot of fundagelicals. Spiritual imbeciles have been wresting the church-creating authority from Christ since the church began. Maybe heads will clear if the apple bobbing stops.
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3 Comment from: dissidens [Member] Email

Almost pitiable, isn’t it? The squawk of the iconoclast followed by the whine of the outcast. This is their sniveling plea for “community”.

Phil Shepherd can sit down at a big table with anyone except the evangelical community God actually gave him.

Did I mention how much I enjoy irony?
PermalinkPermalink 10/30/09 @ 08:50

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4 Comment from: Todd Pruitt [Visitor] Email · http://toddpruitt.blogspot.com
They are as diverse as the typical KJV only fundamentalist pot luck. Do they really believe they ever "sit across from someone" with whom they have deep disagreements? I've seen what happens to these folks when someone disagrees with them! It isn't pretty.

I've never heard so many words strung together to produce so much nonsense. Truly masterful!
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5 Comment from: Todd Pruitt [Visitor] Email · http://toddpruitt.blogspot.com
I almost forgot...

Was Scandretti (sp?) auditioning for something?
PermalinkPermalink 10/30/09 @ 09:30

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6 Comment from: dissidens [Member] Email

Yes, that was Mark Scandrette. That was just about weird enough for Halloween, wasn’t it? His acting skills are on a par with his poetic gifts.

I wonder if the SAG can schedule an intervention before any more harm is done.
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7 Comment from: Joe the Plumber [Visitor] Email
How can it be "convicting to hear other people's stories"? Goodness gracious, I've sat through these soul-baring sessions before, and have always come away much more at ease with my own depravity.

"Daring"? "Awkward"? I've never listened to such mind-numbingly boring drivel in my life ... oh yeah, except when I wasted five minutes on the Sparkhouse Chronicles the other day.

I can't get over how unimaginative and predictable these people are ... it's beyond absurd.
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8 Comment from: dissidens [Member] Email

It's true!

How embarrassing to tell the world you are about to sing the great song it wants to hear, you open your mouth and out comes a burp.
PermalinkPermalink 10/30/09 @ 13:24

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9 Comment from: the divine passive [Visitor] Email
I watched with the sound off and imagined them saying, "I'm going trick-or-treating as a homosexual!" "Me too!" "Well, I'm going as a particularly flamboyant homosexual: you should smell me, I smell like an antique store!"

It's funny how when everyone is committed to doing his own thing, it ends up being the same thing.
PermalinkPermalink 10/31/09 @ 13:52

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10 Comment from: Joshua Allen [Visitor] Email
Wow, it looks like Christians aren't the only ones grappling with this sort of thing anymore. Off-topic, I know, but I found this pretty surreal (the URL even calls them "emergent"): http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/28/new.and.emergent.jews/index.html.
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11 Comment from: dissidens [Member] Email

Yes, this is pure theater. They talk about authenticity only because they think that will make people respect them, but these people are monotonous, tedious and prosaic in their kitsch.

One who genuinely believes in separation will be the first to see when separation has become merely a tribal pose.

One who genuinely loves the Gospel will reject the counterfeit in a second.

One who genuinely appreciates beauty will spot the kitsch a mile off.

It seems clear to me that our major religious movements look more and more like opportunistic diseases. Sooner or later we are going to have to address the problem of health.
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