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Thousands of Christians will descend on the Boston Common on Aug. 25

Current Mood: shocked

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From:

beradan

that's a 😬 from this Boston-adjacent Christian

From:

minoanmiss

1) awesome icon 2) i am so sorry about some of your co-religionists. This kind of malarkey is a large part of why I couldn't stay

From:

dissectionist

It always makes me sad to imagine what good could be done for the world if all that energy was put into helpful things, rather than being diverted into the spread of religion.

From:

lunabee34

I agree with this so hard.

From:

dine

that's a day to stay home, then

From:

bikergeek

"Revive Boston is led by Jaymz Sideras, a revivalist from London."

1. Fucking carpetbagger.

2. Why do the US and UK seem to keep borrowing the worst of each others' ideas?

From:

pameladean

They're looking to break a record set in 1950. Says it all, really. P.

From:

rmd

I assume these are some kind of raving evangelical Protestants. Which makes me wonder how they're going to interact with the 'bead-jiggling papists' of the Boston area Roman Catholic church.

From:

lb_lee

So... wanna go and make out there?

From:

minoanmiss

oooh you know how to offer a girl a good time!

From:

oracne

Sounds like a good day to be elsewhere.

From:

princessofgeeks

Good for them? I guess?

From:

minoanmiss

they're bringing a dunk tank!

From:

princessofgeeks

To find witches!

(She's a witch! Burn her!)

[Sorry]

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amaebi

From:

magid

Hmmmmm.... "descend" - that means they all have to skydive in, right?

:-)

Edited Date: 2024-08-13 07:23 pm (UTC)

From:

dorothy1901

Or plummet. Plummeting works.

From:

princessofgeeks

ROFL

From:

magid

Heh.

That too.

From:

corvidology

Shouldn't they be ascending?

... I'll get my coat.

From:

acelightning73

That URL won't open for me. Why are all of those "Christians" packing into Boston Commons? (And I'd better not plan to go to Boston that weekend.)

From:

redbird

From the linked article:

"A gathering of local worship bands, speakers, and gospel singers will take place until 8 p.m.

"Revive Boston says hundreds of Christians will go onto the streets to evangelize in multiple locations. The organization will also set up a baptismal tank to baptize new converts."

It's not as though there's any shortage of places in Boston to learn about Christianity, or find someone to baptize you.

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acelightning73

When my son was going to an all-boys Catholic high school, one of his fellow students was offended by my son's blasphemous attitude. The other boy stole some holy water from the chapel, and threw it on my son, and then said, "Why aren't you bursting into flames?" He was very disappointed. They'll probably randomly splash baptismal water on random passers-by.

From:

adrian_turtle

My understanding is that there are different groups within Christianity, and even though many of their theological disagreements have faded or regrouped, they still disagree about baptism. Some believe in baptizing babies [1], others think it only counts if the baptize-ee is old enough to consent; some believe in baptizm by a sprinkle of water, others require what they think of as full immersion.[2]

[1] Thus the old joke: "Do you believe in infant baptism?"
"Believe in it? I've seen it done!"

[2] I don't know of any Christian sects that think of full-immersion baptizm as requiring full contact with the water like in a mikvah.

From:

acelightning73

I do think that there are sects that will only do full immersion baptism in a lake or stream or other natural body of water. It has to be "God's" water, not something humans put there for their own convenience.

From:

minoanmiss

I was not expecting this thread to evoke memories of my baptism (my church had been built with a "baptismal font" under the pulpit. I was already having doubts and I thought baptism would cure me, so I daringly nagged my parents about wanting to be baptized once I turned 12, and entertainingly though they got mad at me they arranged for it. I remember the Big White Dress and the rickety elderly pastor lowering me into the coooooold water. I was afraid he'd drop me but he didn't, hahahah.

Of course baptism cured all my doubts. (Not at all.)

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acelightning73

I rejected everything I had ever learned about CHristianity by the time I was seven years old. The Protestant church we went to didn't baptise adolescents or adults, only infants, and I didn't want to be "confirmed" in my faith,because i didn't have any.At the age of seven I called myself a "deist', which pissed off the Sunday school teacher. My initiation into Wicca was a much more spiritually intense experience than anything that ever happened in church.

I didn't have doubts that needed to be cured. I was just hungry for a mystical experience, and the closest to that I got was when I sang in the choir.

From:

acelightning73

A lot of churches put voluminous white cotton robes on the candidate for baptism, to preserve modesty while soaking wet.

The reason most Protestant churches hold a "confirmation" ceremony for children is because they hadn't consented to being baptized as newborns. They have to make vows of faithfulness and Christian behavior when they're old enough to understand what they're promising. I remember having to memorize oaths dating from the Middle Ages and recite them upon demand. I got a cute white eyelet dress to wear, and a new copy of the Bible (bound in white leather). And then I learned more about what I had studied, and decided I'd made a big mistake. I called myself an agnostic/atheist for twenty years, and then discovered Wicca and became part of it.

From:

magid

That's a plot point in one of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency books (total immersion baptism).

From:

minoanmiss

Maybe I should go get baptized to fulfil my desire for immersing myself in water!

....nah, it would probably turn black and start to smoke.

From:

acelightning73

Wee,when the other kid threw holy water on my son, my son didn't burst into flame. He had been standing out in the school parking lot as a thunderstorm developed, shaking his fist at the sky and shouting "Fuck God!", which bothered this devout little teenage fellow student (I think he wanted to become a priest. That boy committed suicide later when the other boys bullied him for being a "faggot"; he jumped into the surf from the rocks.).

Get yourself a cute bathing suit, and some sunscreen lotion designed for darker skin. And I'll see if I can find you a cute sun hat. Then go get "baptized in the living water of a river" - not the Charles, of course. Try the Mystic River :-)