Church
I was sitting in the lunch room the other day, and one of my collegues was telling me a story about her church. She was at church over the weekend and there was this lady there that had stomach pains during the service and decided to move into a room so she can lay down. I guess some people followed her into the room and started thinking that the pains were because she was being possessed by an evil spirit. It sounded like it became a big thing because next thing you know, all these people are around her and she's laying there holding her stomach in pain. These people start thinking that they need to hold her down and find a way to get the spirit out of her. They pin her arms and legs down and while they are doing this she is getting upset and struggling to get free. Who wouldn't? As this is happening, some people in the room are actually in sound mind and say, "maybe we should call 911". The elders ignore this comment and continue to fight the evil spirit. In the end, the pastor leaves as he has lost total control and lets the people do what they want...but eventually they realize that it is just pains and that they can stop the Exorcism. When hearing this story, I was in such shock that things like this could happen in a church. Although I had not been to church in a long time, I'd like to think that it was a place of worship. I know that the church is not perfect but you'd like to think that something this obviously wrong would not happen. When the people that are leading you in the church believe this, have taken action this extremely, and the pastor leaves the crowd to do what they want, I'm sorry but I think it's time to find a new church.
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the only time i ever goto church are for weddings ... but there was one time i went to try to get laid - weeber
That scenario you just told reminds me of that scene in the Lord of the Flies, where the kids have somehow created their own little ritual about some monster or something. And in the passion of the moment, they ended up killing a fellow child.
It's scary if a bunch of stupid people are led by one person who gets a crazy hair-brained idea in their heads.
Kind of like dot-com corporations, eh?
OK that was funny as hell. The woman had a stomach ache. You get a group of Christians together and all of a sudden it's a freakin demonic possession. Group thinking among the easily pursuaded frequently leads to cult-like behaviour. Scary. She probably just had gas for cryin' out loud. They should've just let her release her intestinal demons and she'd have been fine.
I once attended mass ripped out of my mind and people saw me swaying and thought that I was so moved by the sermon that they started to follow me and sway. - Tuna
i hope this wasn't the really big church (its REALLY big) with lots of asians. or great expectations (?). eventhough they have good donuts, apparently. ~ jason
It's time to find a new religion if that kind of shit still takes place in the 21 century. Your co-worker was prolly the lady with the "stomach pains"...prolly ate at Taco Bell before the service??
~ Diggler
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