Confrontational

[tinhuviel]

I'm feeling it today.

So much so, that I may have to pick a fight with Uncle Michael. Since his stroke, he's gotten all religious and shit, and it's kinda pissing me off, some of his new philosophies.

Like, yesterday, he informed Judy (his niece by marriage), that it was against god to get piercings or tattoos. If god has wanted us to have holes or body art, we would have been born with them. That stuck in my craw, but I really couldn't say anything about it at the time.

But, tonight, if given half the chance, I'm going to inform him that he needs to cease and desist from the following activities if he wants to adhere to this line of thinking:
Shaving. If god wanted you to have a clear face, then you'd have one. Since you don't you should grow a great big ole long Arkansas Hillbilly beard, 'cos that's apparently what god intended.

• Clothes. Were you born with clothes? Nope. Clothing is against god. Get thee nekkid, sinner!


• Clipping your nails. 'Scuse me, but long grody nails are the Will of god. If you want to keep them pared down, go grub in gods dirt.


• Glasses. What are you fooling around with your vision for? Apparently god wanted you to be nearsighted. Go fuzzy, ye child of Christ!


• Cutting your hair. Guess what? God likes hippies 'cos hippies don't cut their hair. They are au natural the way god intended. And you thought they were infidels...silly man!

And I could go on about all the inventions of mankind that were not originally created by god. Phones, lights, motorcars, every single luxury. Robinson Caruso was a man of god. He was as primitive as can be.

Put that in your pipe, Gilligan, and smoke it.

Comments

[teague.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm usually pretty amused by Jehova's Witnesses with glasses

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

"Go fuzzy, ye child of Christ! "

heh, much love for tin-tin!!

btw: God hates hippies. He wants us to kick them!

[stacye13.livejournal.com]

no, I believe you're thinking of Eric Cartman. He hates hippies!
;)

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

everyone, deep down in their hearts, hates hippies.

I'm certain that any sort of decent Supreme Being must have given us that part of himself.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I consider myself a hippie, being a child of hippies and all.

::kicks Gary::

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

*kicks tin-tin*

:poke:

go take a shower ya hippy!

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

lol!

[bayberrybush.livejournal.com]

This was a great way to start my day :) Yesterday somebody got permission from the City (that would be our local government) to hand out Christian born-again pamphlets in the streets.
Gah.

[ex-glittert.livejournal.com]

Because, you know, GOD has nothing better to do with his all-seeing, all-knowing self than to poke around looking for trivial reasons to smite us.

Yay God!

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah! The good old petty smites people for random reasons God!

[msmoon.livejournal.com]

*reads all this over and thinks then nods* Ok. I’m gonna go ahead and demonstrate the knowledge I’ve gained from growing up in church, and be all clinical for once.

Everything about nails, hair, (beard or otherwise), glasses...that’s all preference. No where in the Bible does it ever say anything about that, so those who do say they’re following the Bible because of those behaviors are just trying to look righteous or are mislead into believing that’s part of the bargain. The Amish do it for different reasons, but I can’t see criticizing them ‘cause they keep to themselves and don’t bother anyone else about their religion.

It does say that God clothed Adam and Eve after they’d sinned because they ‘knew they were naked, and were ashamed’. The idea is that before they sinned, they were innocent and never realized they were naked because they never looked at each other that way (proving that ignorance is bliss). So after they realized, they were ashamed of their nakedness, so God fixed them up by killing animals and making clothes for them (because they didn’t know how).

I know that the ‘old time Pentecostals’ draw from the 1 Corinthians 11:14 verse about hair, because it says nature teaches you that it’s ashamed for a man to have long hair and a woman’s hair is her glory. That’s why they think women shouldn’t cut their hair but men should. However, if you read farther down, 1 Corinthians 11:16 says that if anyone wants to specify about it, there isn’t a law concerning it. In other words: God does care about your hair. He doesn’t care about appearance either, it’s more the condition of the heart that matters. This is a terrible example of someone reading one verse and taking that to build a principle on. It happens a lot, and shows that you have to read the whole thing if you wanna get it all.

The piercing, I confess, I don’t know about. But, women are always piercing their ears to wear pretty earrings, and that goes for Pentecostals (who are some of the strictest that I’m aware of). Tattoos are more of an issue, ‘cause it does say not to mark your bodies, but that’s because in the ‘last days’ those who receive ‘the mark of the beast’ will be condemned to hell. It also says something about how your body is a temple, so that could fuel the piercing&tattoos issue.

And thus, years of going to an Assembly’s of God church pays off, because whenever someone says ‘God wants you to do this or that’ and you know it’s crap, you can throw it right back at them with the ammo they were trying to use. Now, I shall return to my blithe ineptness and not speak again till my own entry tonight.

Oh and, hi, btw.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Ah, but if the body is a temple, then why be ashamed of it and why alter it at all? Let it do what it does naturally in accordance to god's plan. If you don't, then tattoos, piercings, and whatnot shouldn't be a bloody issue.

does having cheesy feet get you closer to Jesus?

[durgablue.livejournal.com]

Clipping your nails. 'Scuse me, but long grody nails are the Will of god. If you want to keep them pared down, go grub in gods dirt.

EEEuuuuuwwwwwww!!

Re: does having cheesy feet get you closer to Jesus?

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Praise god and pass the Dr. Scholls.