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This hurts my head terribly
08.31.2006 by Tim Reed
This blog entry details an incident that happened over on this blog.
The short version is that the writer of the second blog got her nose all out of joint because a church invited a Christian comedian to come to a Friday night “Family night” that was meant to foster fellowship and good times by all and expressed herself by displaying a picture of the church sign with the title “Lukewarm and proud of it”. Later she takes the post down after a conversation with the pastor without any note or apology concerning why she did it.
In a follow up email conversation she had this to say:
I stand by my statement that comedians don’t belong in church, period.
And while we’re at it there will be no enjoyment, fun or good times in church either! Church is serious business people! And we can’t have people having positive experiences at church! If your knuckles aren’t bloody after church then you’re not going to a real church! Its apostasy to leave church with a smile on your face! /sarcasm
I’ve tried to tone down the personal rhetoric in my writings over the past several years, but comments like this makes me want to let loose with a string of personal invectives that would make Eminem blush.
Its probably not a surprise to anyone that she seems to have a problem with every church that is not just like hers. She seems to hate (yes hate) evangelical and emergent churches with equal ferocity. Let me give some advice to dear, sour Ingrid in that come in the form of the words of that great philosopher Booker T: Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.
August 31st, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Why didn’t I even have to click the link to figure out it was something at Slice.
I love these people who waste their time communicating/arguing with her trying to make a point. It’s useless. It would be best to ignore it, but some people just can’t let it go.
Also, doesn’t this prove how crazy the internet is? Someone like Ingrid would never be heard of without the medium and now 100,000 people read her demented ideas. Fascinating.
August 31st, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Dirty Puritans! Bah.
August 31st, 2006 at 5:55 pm
DON’T YOU DARE SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT TEH INTERWEB!!!
But yeah its pretty messed up. I’m so sad that you’re familiar enough with that site to refer to it as “slice”, unfortunately the internet is really just a way for all the nutjobs to get together and agree with each other. Also, what makes it so hard to apologize when you’ve said something horrible about someone else that turned out to not be true?
August 31st, 2006 at 10:04 pm
Hi Steve,
I have only run across SOL in the past month or so I don’t really have a whole lot of experience with Ingrid and her history on the net, and I do concur with your point about what a waste of time it was to try to interact with Ingrid. I wrote my post for two reasons, one I felt that Phil Johnson at the Pyromaniacs blog wrote a very good post on Guilt By Association, but I thought he really dropped the ball in the last paragraph where he explicitly stated his post was not about SOL. Lastly I wrote it because, one she would never post it in her comments section, and two I really believe that at some point in time these people need to get called on what it is their doing, and present the other side. When those who don’t attend church stumble across our blogs in the Christian blogesphere can hopefully see that we all do not subscribe to the mentality that goes on over at Slice, but are critical of it.
If you did get to read my entire post, I did conclude that every once in a while if one really feels they have to respond to something written there, do so, but then delete them from your bookmarks and try to forget they exist. I have no intention of being a “watcher” of the so called “watch blogs”.
Grace and Peace
{{{Candleman}}}
August 31st, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Understood, and I hope you know that I respect that you made the move to confront her. I hope you don’t think I was slighting you by writing it. But I’ve witnessed many a person try to argue with her and it always ends in a useless battle. Those are the type of people I treat as if they’re not even believers.
I do refer to SOL every once in a while when I need a good laugh. Here’s to, one day, me doing something “wrong” so I can be referenced there.
Keep the faith, brother.
September 1st, 2006 at 12:27 am
I stand by my belief that the church of Jesus Christ is no place for fun family outings featuring laugh all night comedians, period
sad.
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:01 am
I wonder how she responds to jokes in the sermon…
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:26 am
I imagine she attacks the preacher with holy water and a crucifix.
September 4th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
What’s more is that it’s a classic case of confusing the Church with the building. I suppose the Church of Jesus Christ is also no place for a potluck dinner, a game of basketball, a youth movie night, a car wash, or any of the other things we use our church buildings for.
For that matter, I find it abominable that people use the House of the Lord for taking a crap! Down with church bathrooms!
September 4th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
I thought about pointing that out then I came ot my senses and realized it wouldn’t make any difference nad went with a cathartic blast style of writing instead.
SoL makes me hurt in all the wrong ways.