Message To Goodlife And The Fervents

[andy-hughes]

Have a day off from your endless soulless moralising and disdain, and have a look at some real religion in action here -

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - I am sure you can imagine how much notice I am going to take of that.

[anneasquith]

You took enough notice to reply AH .

[douglas9401]

At a meeting in AB Towers the question was asked 'anybody have any ideas on generating some clicks in the midweek doldrums?'

Imagine the crestfallen looks as only one hand was raised.

[Mozz71]

Goodlife and the Fervents is a Christian Rock band waiting to happen

[andy-hughes]

Mozz - That's gone straight into my 'I wish I'd Posted That' file!!

[goodlife]

You're obviously not worried about what's happening in the world ,so we are looking for people who are. And I am glad I have nothing to do with christmas one of worst festivals on earth. (Ezekiel 9:4)

[Khandro]

Many rationalists & dim-witted clerics (please God spare me from them) believe that by diluting religion they are in some way protecting it from "the ravages of secularism", but they could not be more wrong.

Believe it or not, Christianity is a religion, & just like all religions, that means that its foundations rest on ritual practices - something seemingly incomprehensible to the pagan mind- and it has rationally unjustifiable narratives or if you like, "myths".

So please spare us from these enlightened false-friends of Christianity who wish to usher it and its true followers away from such things.

[naomi24]

Who are these enlightened false friends of Christianity, Khandro?

[andy-hughes]

goodlife - // You're obviously not worried about what's happening in the world ,so we are looking for people who are. //

You are quite wrong, I am worried about what's happening in the world, but I am delighted not to be 'worried' in the way that you think I should be, which saves me the tiresome taslk of bothering what you think.

// And I am glad I have nothing to do with christmas one of worst festivals on earth. (Ezekiel 9:4) //

I'm thrilled for you - heven forbid that you should enjou a day's respite from your endless grinding misery and fear.

[Khandro]

//Who are these enlightened false friends of Christianity, Khandro?//

Clerics behaving like ***

[naomi24]

Any flavour of clerics in particular?

[Khandro]

I think the happy-clappy types are a particularly despicable bunch & I thought they were restricted to the C.of E. but what I have read, the plan to re-build Notre Dame de Paris into a sort of Walt Disney theme centre sound alarming.

[naomi24]

The happy clappy types aren’t CofE.

What’s the plan with Notre Dame then?

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - // I think the happy-clappy types are a particularly despicable bunch & I thought they were restricted to the C.of E. but what I have read, the plan to re-build Notre Dame de Paris into a sort of Walt Disney theme centre sound alarming. //

I have no axe to grind here, obviously, but I would have thought that anything that drags Christianity out of the Middle Ages, where its rituals and messages have remained for nin-hundred years, and gives it something of an acknowledgement that modern Christians are not keen on living a life of fear and dread, has to be a good thing.

What you call 'happy clappy' may just be some ministers trying to get some happiness and modern attitudes into their churches, and that cannot be a bad thing - can it?

[naomi24]

AH, the last thing happy clappy ministers spread is happiness. They’re as bad as Goodlife with their doom-mongering.

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - Surely the clue is in the name - ?

How can they be -happy, not to say clappy, if they are doom-mongering?

[naomi24]

AH, happy clappy isn't a name - it's a generalisation for the sort of evangelical sects that enthusiastically sing the praises of the Lord, firmly believe in the evil of the Devil, warn the faithful on the slightest misdemeanour that God is watching them, and tell anyone who isn't 'born again' that they are certainly going to hell. Some of them even do things like this famous face you might recognise.



To quote TTT, MAABOF.

[Khandro]

n. Re. Notre Dame;

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/26/notre-dame-risks-becoming-woke-disneyland-controversial-renovation/

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // AH, happy clappy isn't a name - it's a generalisation for the sort of evangelical sects that enthusiastically sing the praises of the Lord, firmly believe in the evil of the Devil, warn the faithful on the slightest misdemeanour that God is watching them, and tell anyone who isn't 'born again' that they are certainly going to hell. Some of them even do things like this famous face you might recognise. //

Thanks for that.

I assume then, that the 'happy' bit is them all being thrilled that they have got the winning ticket.

To be objective, it sounds like all the fervents on here - past and present.

Over to you Khandro ...

[naomi24]

Khandro, Oh dear. :o(