Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF Don't these Jeebus freaks have anything else better to do with their time? <a href="http://www.texasobserver.org/dateline/he-who-casts-the-first-stone" target="_blank">http://www.texasobserver.org/d...st-stone</a> A little over a year ago, Amarillo’s swingers geared up for their New Year’s Eve party at Route 66 Party and Event Rental, a downtown business owned by a prominent couple, Mac and Monica Mead. Few in this conservative, church-heavy city knew about the weekend parties, and the swingers liked it that way. “Everybody in the lifestyle has to be very, very discreet,” says Mac, a leather-skinned truck driver with a shaved head, piercing blue eyes and an earring. The Meads enforced strict rules at the members-only club: no drugs, no single men, no audio-visual equipment. Most couples, even ones who had been in “the lifestyle” for years, are on a first-name basis only. The location of the club is (or was) “to be kept strictly private.” So imagine the swingers’ surprise when they arrived at their New Year’s Eve bash to find two dozen protesters, local media in tow, holding signs and singing songs. This was a most unwelcome coming-out party. Some protesters, mostly young men in their teens and early 20s, wore black hoodies and military fatigues. The men, Amarillo would soon learn, were foot soldiers of Repent Amarillo, a new, militant evangelical group that advertises itself as “the Special Forces of spiritual warfare.” Their leader, David Grisham, a security guard at nuclear-bomb facility Pantex who moonlights as a pastor, explained the action. “We’re here to shine the light on this darkness,” Grisham told the Amarillo Globe-News. “I don’t think Amarillo knew about this place. This is adultery. This is wrong. There’s no telling how many venereal diseases get spread, how many abortions.” The goal, Grisham says, was not just to save the swingers’ souls, but to shut the club down.
Originally Posted By velo anybody else worried about the leader of "Repent Amarillo" being a security guard at a nuclear-bomb facility..?
Originally Posted By Labuda "Don't these Jeebus freaks have anything else better to do with their time?" Apparently not. I just read the whole article - shame on the members of Repent Amarillo, and kudos to the state trooper mentioned in the article.
Originally Posted By FaMulan anybody else worried about the leader of "Repent Amarillo" being a security guard at a nuclear-bomb facility..?<< :raises hand:
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Originally Posted By pecos bill Brainwashed religious zombies. And people wonder why so many have a loathing for organized religion.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Brainwashed religious zombies. And people wonder why so many have a loathing for organized religion.<< BUT WHAT ABOUT POLK STREET METHODIST? Oy vey!!!
Originally Posted By DAR Meanwhile the majority of religious people, attend Mass or a religious service every week, keep to themselves and generally live a good life.
Originally Posted By Labuda "There's still swingers clubs? I thought those were like a 70's type deal." Yeah. There are. I have friends (a married couple) who are part of one here in my neck of the woods. Not my thing AT ALL, but more power to 'em if it makes 'em happy and they do it safely.
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Originally Posted By Labuda DAR - I am not entirely sure that the majority of religious people don't attend church on a weekly basis. And, let's not forget - your relationship with a church has nothing to do with your relationship with your God.
Originally Posted By Labuda Drop the word don't from the first sentence above. Changed wording of the sentence and forgot to take that out.
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Originally Posted By mawnck >>I am not entirely sure that the majority of religious people attend church on a weekly basis.<< The 70% number was people who *said* they were religious. I think it's safe to assume that a majority of them are not regular church goers.
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Originally Posted By Labuda "The Catholic Church for example believes that Church attendance and faith are one in the same." I know. That's why my Granddad went to Mass every day of his life and why I am no longer Catholic. "The 70% number was people who *said* they were religious. I think it's safe to assume that a majority of them are not regular church goers." Yeah, you just said that in a much better manner than I did, mawnck.
Originally Posted By Mr X ^---pretty sure you don't have to go EVERY day. Every Sunday and high holy days are enough to fulfill that particular requirement in the "I don't wanna go to hell" curriculum.
