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so looking back with what you know now about the people in the church you went to...what kind of juicy and interesting things did you find out that the
"most annointed" people at your church were up to? I'm talking about the ones that were praying in tongues every service, laying on hands,
etc....the ones that everyone thought was "so close to God"?
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tandc90 |
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The pastor's wife had an affair with another man. The only reason anyone found out is she got pregnant. Actually, that's how the church found out, not
sure about the pastor himself. You'd think if you're an adult woman, a pastor's wife no less, who is going to engage in illicit sex IN THE CHURCH
(that's almost the funniest part) with another man you'd at least take precautions. Anyway, the "other man" had the decency to vanish into
the sunset whereas the pastor and his wife are still pastoring the church and never paused in their pastoring during the scandal. The kid lives with them.
I'd like to think they at least have the decency to be honest with him about his father but who knows.
When I was a kid going to charismatic christian school I saw a lot of interesting interactions. Adults think kids don't notice anything. Maybe other kids don't but I did. One of the married-with-kids-of-his-own youth pastors had an obvious crush on my, admittedly gorgeous, best friend (she was 14). He'd flirt with her unashamedly. I suppose he thought he was hiding it. I keep wondering where all that superhero charismatic discernment comes into play in situations like this................... |
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Oh, just the usual --- preachers' kids' run amuck. Not a whole lot of stuff beyond that.
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Well where should I start.....LOL, not saying just from my church but churches associated with or knew about, fellowshipped with ect. Affairs, drinkers,
embezzelers, molesters, dirty old men, teen pregnancys, shotgun weddings, forced marriages, putting down women, false prophets, suggestive dancing that was
supposed to be "dancing in the spirit".....I'm sure I will think of more later.
Sorrow lasts through this night
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My paternal great grandfather, the pastor of my former Pentecostal congregation for more than 50 years, hired prostitutes, had sex with others, and made sexual
advances toward my mother, even when she was really young and just meeting him for the first time. My step great grandmother lied about all kinds of people and
managed to create a church split. She also exposed my grandfather's secret when she found out, and she claims she saved his license, but I highly doubt
that. I think he just knew the right people and had been in this thing long enough to not get thrown out. My grandmother also took various items from the
church that I found in her home despite her claim that she has too many things and wants to sell it all and devote her life to evangelizing. She doesn't
have any proof that she purchased any of these things.
My grandmother doesn't keep secrets well, so when a church member told her that she caught her husband watching a lesbian porn film, she told me about it LOL. He was on the platform every Sunday playing music and he had a nursing home ministry. We had a visiting evangelist making very sexual movements on the platform, moving his hips, telling a woman that she needs to move a little more, not be so stiff. He seemed like a very sexual man, which doesn't matter to me, but it was weird to see him express it in that way....Suggestive dancing. That's all I can think of for now. James
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all
science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are
closed."
-- Albert Einstein |
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CaroG87 |
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OH YEAH -- I forgot about that.
We had a guy who got booted because he was unfaithful to his wife (the pastor's favorite pianist, but mostly because she'd followed him from his old church) -- and cavorting with hookers. This was in the mid-80s when AIDS was at the forefront of everything, and I think we were more scared for her than anything else. He left her (and they had two young boys too). I was absolutely terrified for her, quite honestly. The last I heard (20 years ago now), her tests were coming back negative, so at least that was a relief. When I was younger than that, we had a guy who was supposedly playing footsie in church with the pastor's wife (I say supposedly because I overheard my mother talking on the phone with someone else from church). Anyhow, she felt something brushing up the backs of her legs in church but she figured it was just kids playing underneath the pew. Nope! Other than that, it wasn't terribly scandalous. Except for the preachers' kids of course!!! |
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Lutherius |
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Pentecostalism and sex? You have got to be kidding me?
Come to think of it, yeah! Seriously, you will probably never hear of a sex scandal in those "dead, boring churches." I wonder why. Maybe because they are not seeking a psycho-sexual orgasm in public at the "altar."
Lutherius
"I cannot and I will not recant. Here I stand; I can do no other." Martin Luther Ex-Pentecostal Forums Lutherius' Blog (Archived Essays) Pentecostal Watchdog Society (Yahoo Allied Group) derkrash@earthlink.net (My Personal Email) |
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Most of the scandals I knew about involved obscene misuse of money and ripping off the people who could least afford it...
Cruelty I believe is just one of the dark fruits of pentecostalism. - PepperMintPaty
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James...yes, the sex moves by preachers! Sigh...there was this evangelist that this church that I went to just LOVED. So, they invited him back every year
around the same time. Well, this preacher would get all excited and jump up on the pews and begin gyrating his hips in a uh...sexual manner with people in the
pew beside and in front of where he stood!
Once, he happened to jump up on the pew next to me. LOL Well, here I am with a baby at the time and he jumps up on the pew begins humping the air furiously as he was shouting and seemed to stay there for years. I was disgusted (as I am gay) and embarrassed because I wasn't sure he was simply "doing his thing" or it was some sexual advance disguised as preaching. It was sooooo gross! Another time...at this same small church...the pastor seemed to be this approachable, generous, and well thought of man... Well, his wife complained all of the time about there sex life. She complained that he "wanted it" too often. Well, not surprisingly...he called my best friend at the time and made a very sexual advance to her over the phone talking about his "size" and how he couldn't understand why his wife complained, etc. This man still holds a position on the ALJC board in Louisiana...
Pascal wus clever kitteh hu wus laik: "I am not knoin if teh Ceiling Cat is reel." Oh noes! But
Pascal was thinkin an thinkin, an he wus laik "If I is beleefin in teh Ceiling Cat, and he is reel, I will be gettin cheezburger. But if I has no beleefin
in teh Ceiling Cat, and he is reel, I will be getting pwned. If there no Ceiling Cat, no matter anywai. I think I is beleefin in teh Ceiling
Cat."
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Looking4truth wrote: Sounds like Elvis Presley. http://www.jesus-is-savio...s/elvis_presley-phony.htm |
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Taco Fred |
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When I was a teen, here is some stuff that happened:
Two guys along with the pastor's son had a bet going on about who could bang the most girls in the youth group at church. Their big delima was whether or not they would count the girls who went to the church's ACE School that did not attend our church as part of their bet. The guy who won that bet now pastors a church in my hometown. The pastor's daughter thinking she was pregnant. The pastor's son thinking he had gotten a girl from outside the church pregnant. The pastor's son and a few others drunk. Pente boys getting caught driving down the freeway mooning people. A girl whose father was a preacher flips off TV camera at Magic Springs.
Celebrating 25 years of being Pentecost free!
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tandc90 |
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Ewwww. I don't think I've ever seen or heard of gyrating preachers. That's just.......errrrrggg.......
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