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trinityvixenI just found out that Sarah Palin attends an Assembly of God church. I am now more terrified of the McCain-Palin ticket than ever.
Okay, maybe I'm just reacting unduly. It's entirely possible that the one Assembly of God church service I attended (!) was an anomaly. The people weren't like threatening me with hellfire or anything (though they wanted my contact information with a zeal not matched by Army recruiters), but their service was the kind of kook-encouraging stuff for which my liberal Lutheran upbringing (and the more strict Catholic background of my two friends) had not prepared me. People called out in the middle of service. There were more prayers spoken aloud than kept quiet, many of which seemed a skosh too personal. Jesus was their best friend. He was like AWESOME, so let's talk and talk about how great he is. The service lasted two hours.
I'm very possibly overreacting. Very possibly. Not probably, but possibly. Of all the services in different churches that I've been to, that one was the scariest for the depth of honest-but-appearing-psychotic devotion. The baht mitvahs I attended were a tad boring, though I loved the music. (Very beautiful, lyrical, completely unsingable for me.) The one prayer service I attended at a mosque was very rote, but I liked the prayer leader's half-singing call to prayer. (I was also crying a lot because it was a funeral service as well.) I have never had cause to attend a Catholic service. (I am, however, Lutheran, which is supposed to be as close to Catholic as possible, given that Martin Luther had no interest in forming his own church and only really wanted to reform Catholicism.)
Yeah, okay, no thanks. I already know how crazy Alaskans are. Look, no offense, it's a frequently lovable sort of crazy, but people who get days off school because of sun and who don't see said sun for six or more months in a year ARE FRIGGIN NUTS. I've been there, I met some Alaskans, they seemed plenty nice, but even they admit that they're batshit. One of them a heart attack away from the presidency? No thank you.
Okay, maybe I'm just reacting unduly. It's entirely possible that the one Assembly of God church service I attended (!) was an anomaly. The people weren't like threatening me with hellfire or anything (though they wanted my contact information with a zeal not matched by Army recruiters), but their service was the kind of kook-encouraging stuff for which my liberal Lutheran upbringing (and the more strict Catholic background of my two friends) had not prepared me. People called out in the middle of service. There were more prayers spoken aloud than kept quiet, many of which seemed a skosh too personal. Jesus was their best friend. He was like AWESOME, so let's talk and talk about how great he is. The service lasted two hours.
I'm very possibly overreacting. Very possibly. Not probably, but possibly. Of all the services in different churches that I've been to, that one was the scariest for the depth of honest-but-appearing-psychotic devotion. The baht mitvahs I attended were a tad boring, though I loved the music. (Very beautiful, lyrical, completely unsingable for me.) The one prayer service I attended at a mosque was very rote, but I liked the prayer leader's half-singing call to prayer. (I was also crying a lot because it was a funeral service as well.) I have never had cause to attend a Catholic service. (I am, however, Lutheran, which is supposed to be as close to Catholic as possible, given that Martin Luther had no interest in forming his own church and only really wanted to reform Catholicism.)
Yeah, okay, no thanks. I already know how crazy Alaskans are. Look, no offense, it's a frequently lovable sort of crazy, but people who get days off school because of sun and who don't see said sun for six or more months in a year ARE FRIGGIN NUTS. I've been there, I met some Alaskans, they seemed plenty nice, but even they admit that they're batshit. One of them a heart attack away from the presidency? No thank you.
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Date: 2008-09-03 07:17 pm (UTC)