Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Catholics that I have dealt with are usually fine with alcohol, smoking, dancing, stuff like that. The derivatives tend to freak out over those things though, some to the point of coming up with manuals dictacting stuff that they must figure God left out of the Bible due to lack of space, like thou shalt not drink, thou shalt not dance, thou shalt not go to movies, thou shalt not let thy women wear pants but rather only hideous floor length denim skirts, et cetera. Some are worse than others.
I imagine non-Catholic Christians as singing and dancing in churches, interpretting seizures as "speaking in tongues," and passing around snakes during the ceremony.
According to my boss, repeating a monosyllable over and over classifies as "speaking in tongues." I went to their church once, and they had a speaker that was trying to "slay me in the Spirit" like Benny Hinn does. He tried to push me over and I wouldn't fall down. He told me to stand up on toes and stick out my chest and throw my arms back and I am thinking, "Why, so I couldn't possibly be any MORE off balance?"
He finally managed to push me over, though to my surprise :shocked: I did not pass out like my boss and his family who were all laying on the floor in a supposed state of unconciousness. My boss said he didn't remember that happenening because he was out cold. Several months later I brought up the incident again, and he said he remembered seeing it happen.