You know what would be awesome?

[More Than A Feeling]

If we all got together and invaded one of those staid mainline churches, or one of those thinly veiled GOP propaganda centers, and started acting the way we do online. I'm picturing the debate version of the brawl scene from Blazing Saddles. Who is with me?:D

[illinoisprogressive]

1. Everyone here would start acting silly by bringing up The Sore Subject

[stranger]

2. i did that once-sort of-this was too funny!

I used to go to a fundamentalist baptist church in atlanta
(called first Baptist church of atlanta)

There was this crazy little woman there named Nancy Schaefer,
who chaired the so-called "Moral concerns ministry"

These people hyperventilate at the mention of sex.
they pray for republican candidates to get elected to all public offices
to bring godliness to govenrment

anyway, several years ago, they were having a meeting of
the "moral concerns ministry"
and I sent some flyers to a local gay newspaper just for a joke.

Guess what? a bunch of gay men showed up at the meeting of the moral concerns ministry
and quietly took seats .

then, when nancy started warning the people about the grave
threat gays posed to western civilization, all the gays stood up and started
yelling slogans and began throwing condoms around the room

nancy nearly soiled herself and all the fundies in the moral concerns ministry
dropped to their knees and began hysterically praying -as condoms rained down on them

Shortly thereafter, Nancy and her hubby moved their righteous asses from wicked
atlanta to a little town in north georgia.

Nancy now has website dedicated to God in politics.
just google nancy schaefer, and you can find it-shes a certifiable nut case.

Oh yeah... she got herself elected to the georgia state legislature from this
little podunk mountain hamlet in nort georgia.

Oh! and shes the one who "led Zell Miller to the Lord"
and she talks about it on her site. You can read his
maudlin conversion story there.

Birds of a feather flock together.

[Meshuga]

3. The topic could be: "Delusion" :-) n/t

[MistressOverdone]

4. I guess they would react the same way we

do when invaded by freeper trolls. Oil and water.

On edit I will add, they appear to feel that we are generally rather dirty, promiscuous, show signs of mental illness, lazy, and generally good for nothing and we need to them protect use and pray for us. In other words, they believe with their heart and souls they ARE RIGHT.

Just like we do.

[Goblinmonger]

5. Could I heckle the minister

because then count me in.

[JerseygirlCT]

6. I wouldn't be too quick to knock the "mainline" churches

they tend to be the more open-minded Protestant churches now.

[More Than A Feeling]

7. I know. I attend one (American Baptist). "Staid" is an accurate description, most of the time.

Speaking of openmindedness, the limits of my church's tolerance are being tested by the decision of one of our members to become transgender. I am sad to report that from all accounts (I am away at the moment, but I keep in touch), some of the membership is not exactly covering itself in glory. I wish I was there so I could make a strong statement in protest of the way they have been reacting to him as he becomes a her.

[JerseygirlCT]

8. That's undoubtedly a tough one -- probably bringing out all sorts

of visceral reactions that people need education to get over.

I've found a few times that simply and calmly pointing out something results in all sorts of opened eyes -- sometimes from surprising places.

I'm sure in my small parish, that news would be met with a number of people not understanding it at all, and therefore ignoring it, a number of people going out of their way to make sure the person was understood and comfortable, and a few who were deeply uncomfortable with it. I know my rector would, regardless of any personal feelings, go out of her way to make the person continue to feel part of the family, and urge others to do the same.

It's all a learning process. We've far more openly gay members now, and people are just plain getting used to the idea that they're just folks. That's fun to watch.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. My church has had two transgendered people attending since

I started attending. One moved out of town, but the other still attends occasionally.

[jgraz]

10. Can we eat beans and fart too?

If so, then I'm in.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. I've often daydreamed

of going into one of the fundy churches around here and starting to dance and sing one of the Dances of Universal Peace. I'd probably pick a Christian Dance, either the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, or "God Has Given Me the Power To Change My Ways" or the "Gospel Trilogy" Dance, which includes this re-wording of an old gospel hymn: "You can be a beacon if your light will shine/You can be a beacon if your light will shine/There's a little spark in all of us that is divine/You can be a beacon if your your light will shine"

Or maybe just quietly sing ALL the verses to "Jesus Loves Me, Sufi Style"-which include:
"Moses loves me, this I know, For the Talmud tells me so...."
"Buddha loves me, this I know, Dhammapada tells me so....."
But you get the idea. :)