tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post8327059624482331576..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: TRUMP DETROIT PASTOR'S ORDINATION CEREMONY IS ... ODDSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-81213810145299096072016-09-03T19:16:32.258-04:002016-09-03T19:16:32.258-04:00Lying on top of a person appears as a means of hea...Lying on top of a person appears as a means of healing in stories in both the Hebrew Bible (Elijah in 1 Kings 17:17-24 and Elisha in 2 Kings 4:32-37) and the New Testament (Paul in Acts 20:9-12), but not as a means of commissioning someone to a spiritual office. In the New Testament (presumably the model for Christian communities), the latter is always done by "the laying on of hands," indicating that the person performing the ritual conveys the Holy Spirit by placing his/her hands on the head of the person being commissioned (cf. Acts of the Apostles 6:6, 13:3, 1 Timothy 4:14, 5:22, 2 Timothy 1:6), thereby authorizing and empowering them to carry out a particular ministry. So the biblical model is not where the particular ritual followed by Impact Ministries International in Detroit comes from, or at least not in any direct or discernible way.Leo Artunianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09791102888537681220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-63131806711709553662016-09-03T14:46:13.601-04:002016-09-03T14:46:13.601-04:00"The two men, newly tapped bishops..."
..."The two men, newly tapped bishops..."<br /><br />That's ONE way to put it.................<br /><br />Religion makes strange bed-follows...<br />(NTTAWWT!!!).Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-34591774234052529242016-09-03T14:02:58.637-04:002016-09-03T14:02:58.637-04:00I have no doubt there's evolution at work here...I have no doubt there's evolution at work here, working through various senses: certainly smell, PROBABLY taste, and others. Nothing right or wrong about it, it just 'is', and thereafter it comes down to how we're raised, what the rules of civilized living do to ameliorate against potential harm, and judgment.<br /><br />Being AFAIK immune to religious belief and hypervigilant to bullshit form, men laying on each other to engage in occult channeling or encourage religiotic delusion activates my personal puke response for reasons that aren't restricted to evolution-induced phobias. Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-50761525173819102332016-09-03T13:54:36.236-04:002016-09-03T13:54:36.236-04:00Now imagine this in a secular context:
CEO: Welco...Now imagine this in a secular context:<br /><br />CEO: Welcome to the team, Scheisskopf!<br /><br />Scheisskopf: Thank you sir, it's indeed a great honor.<br /><br />CEO: You know, we have a little initiation that we do here at Amalgamated Consolidated Limited, Inc., LLC, S.A.<br /><br />Scheisskopf: Sir? What is that?<br /><br />CEO: It's our way of building the team, bonding new members to the family. (Shouting) Hold all calls, Miss Brooks! (Turns to Scheisskopf) Wouldn't want to be disturbed, right? Okay son, I want you to lie face down on the floor...<br /><br />(Apologies to Joseph Heller.)<br /><br />jsrthetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09471258641340325875noreply@blogger.com