(August 31, 2013 at 7:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Now that's goofy.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/2013083...4Q6O2.html
Quote: LOS ANGELES (AP) - At Three Crosses Church, Pastor Ken Walters urges his parishioners to join him in song and scripture. The charismatic 58-year-old extends his arms skyward and belts out melodies praising God.
While the small Assemblies of God congregation goes through all the traditional trappings of a Pentecostal service, there is one notable absence: speaking in tongues, a defining trait of the faith.
The 40-member church is among many nationwide that are reducing or cutting out speaking in tongues as they become more popular and move to the mainstream. It's a shift that has unsettled some more traditional Pentecostals who say the practice is at the heart of a movement that evolved out of an interracial revival and remains a spontaneous way for the poor and dispossessed to have a direct line to God.
As with so much else in religion it is a vital matter of "faith" until it starts to make them look stupid. They then drop it like a hot potato.
They haven't dropped the idiotic reverence for a particular unhinged, maglomaniac, and professionall undistinguished carpenter who ended his days reduced to being an appendage of a piece of timber rather than a fashioner of something out of timber.
