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July 26, 2007

Maybe It's Time to Start Going Back to Church

What do you have when 400 people crowd into a building labeled "the Vineyard of Love" (with 600 others turned away after waiting in line in a thunderstorm to get inside), where they are seated, shoes off, on velvet covered benches in the midst of wine and rose leaves, then entertained by a female dancer in a skin-colored stocking and another in a little red dress crawling around on a rose petal-covered floor and dancing to saxophone music? Add to it that the crowd is instructed that the event is erotic, they should sit close, and then all in attendance anoint and massage each others hands and foreheads with oil and kiss and embrace passionately while being told to "live out" their "lust." Is it a pagan ritual? Nope. It was a Protestant liturgy, led by a barefoot, black robed vicar who instructed attendees to worship God with sex and said that pastoral sex before preaching makes sermons "lively, powerful and more spicy." Geez, those German Protestants know how to party.

Sounds more like they're worshipping Aphrodite, Venus, Shiva, or even Pan (though I suppose flute music would have been more appropriate there) than the Protestant God. I wonder, WWJD?

Posted by Becky at July 26, 2007 02:34 PM