Pentecost Sunday - just reporting in

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Is pentacost even Apostle Paul era retconning, or is it an even later chunk of ephemera grafted onto the edifice of the faith ??

Hmm Vorl, I don't know.  The scripture passage is from the 2nd chapter in the Acts of the Apostles book.  
Luke and Acts were written by the same author.  These books were written for a Greek audience.  The date, anywhere from AD 60 to AD 100.
All the bits about tongues of fire, people from all over the region hearing Galilean Aramaic as their own language, miracles . . . I assume that they're
stuck in there to impress the Greeks of the time that this "new" god was legit and more powerful than the old ones.

I've done a quick search, though, and I haven't found anything yet.  So if anyone knows if a "gift" of suddenly being able to speak all languages is associated 
with older Mediterranean deities, please share!  All I can figure is that the author of Luke -Acts (who tried so hard to tie Jeebers to all of the old prophecies, so
he obviously was an Torah scholar of some sort) was probably trying to say that Jeebus Christ's power nullified the Tower of Babel.

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Yeah, I'm just sharing.  As most of you know, I still go play organ for a Catholic church.   My budget needs it.  So I'm an atheist sitting at the organ, watching the choir react to whatever the priest is spewing...

Well you’re either a shite keyboard player or a shite atheist, or both. What you have described here is a red neck church, I'll repeat that,  A Redneck Church. Next time round hit them with something like this:



I mean everyone loves a hoedown.

"A hoedown is a redneck gathering, usually involves shouting catchy phrases like "yee-haw" and "jesus will save us"

There will be a reaction. Make notes, report back.

HA, Succubus!  Oh yes, I know what a hoedown is.  I have relatives in Texas.  And the people in this particular redneck church would be completely furious to be labeled as such. This is an upper-middle-class Midwestern congregation.  Lots of doctors and lawyers and CEO's sitting in the pews.  Very proper, no shouting allowed.  And if I played anything even remotely hoedown-ish, I would be fired immediately.  The folks at this place prefer Bach fugues and Baroque-era selections.