Posted: 8/5/2016 12:57:37 PM EDT
| Why are there still crummy looking posters made out of cut out felt hanging on the wall? I'm pretty sure these have been hanging there since the 1960's or 1970's when they were first made by the Sunday school classes. The felt peace doves and similar nonsense is tacky and dated. And why do people still have to sing all those droning hymns written in the 1900's? |
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There's plenty of "Spirit of Vatican II" Catholic churches with that same bullshit.
Usually a priest in their 70's, parish staff of the same age, and some old lady who thinks liturgical dance should be a thing. We're mostly just waiting for the biological solution to deal with them. |
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Why are there still crummy looking posters made out of cut out felt hanging on the wall? I'm pretty sure these have been hanging there since the 1960's or 1970's when they were first made by the Sunday school classes. The felt peace doves and similar nonsense is tacky and dated. And why do people still have to sing all those droning hymns written in the 1900's? No comment on the felt, no idea what you are talking about. I've been a Methodist my whole life. As for the part in red, Maybe try a contemporary service? Source: Methodist Electric Guitar Player for a contemporary service. |
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There's plenty of "Spirit of Vatican II" Catholic churches with that same bullshit. Usually a priest in their 70's, parish staff of the same age, and some old lady who thinks liturgical dance should be a thing. We're mostly just waiting for the biological solution to deal with them. 
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No comment on the felt, no idea what you are talking about. I've been a Methodist my whole life. As for the part in red, Maybe try a contemporary service? Source: Methodist Electric Guitar Player for a contemporary service. Quoted:
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Why are there still crummy looking posters made out of cut out felt hanging on the wall? I'm pretty sure these have been hanging there since the 1960's or 1970's when they were first made by the Sunday school classes. The felt peace doves and similar nonsense is tacky and dated. And why do people still have to sing all those droning hymns written in the 1900's? No comment on the felt, no idea what you are talking about. I've been a Methodist my whole life. As for the part in red, Maybe try a contemporary service? Source: Methodist Electric Guitar Player for a contemporary service. Or he meant the other way. For us Catholics we've got damn near 2000 years of amazing musical history of soaring beauty and inspiration and a bunch of parishes insist on singing the same 1960-1985 boomer folk bullshit songs. Parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwFJv-kmaCc ETA: I've gotten in trouble for doing some of those in church. Evidently some people at Mass actually like the Servant Song for some reason (those people are wrong). |
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If you want the honest answer...
Methodists in their day were radical. The music they sang was the rock music of the day. They knew how to adopt the style of the prevailing culture while other churches were stuck in the previous century, and they became the most popular denomination in the US. In many places, there was only one church, and it was a Methodist. Along the way, though, they got old. The first generation that was born into the Methodist Church was on fire. Their parents had built it up from nothing, it was a shiny new movement, and they were steeped in the doctrine. They had a zeal for saving souls. It worked great. The second generation born into it were born into a mature organization. The music was set. The structure was set. They had nothing to do but to be cogs in a completed machine. And from this point, nothing changed. Ever. You can't change the architectural style, or the interior decorating, or the hymn book, or the kid's activities, or... Because it's tradition. That's just how things like that work. The Methodist denomination is dying, like most of the old, stuffy churches. Has been for a while. Other denominations have risen up to take its place. In a hundred years, some of them will be singing the exact same songs they are now, with the exact same fog-and-laser show, serving the exact same coffee, with the exact same posters on the wall. And people will be wondering why. |
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If you want the honest answer... Methodists in their day were radical. The music they sang was the rock music of the day. They knew how to adopt the style of the prevailing culture while other churches were stuck in the previous century, and they became the most popular denomination in the US. In many places, there was only one church, and it was a Methodist. Along the way, though, they got old. The first generation that was born into the Methodist Church was on fire. Their parents had built it up from nothing, it was a shiny new movement, and they were steeped in the doctrine. They had a zeal for saving souls. It worked great. The second generation born into it were born into a mature organization. The music was set. The structure was set. They had nothing to do but to be cogs in a completed machine. And from this point, nothing changed. Ever. You can't change the architectural style, or the interior decorating, or the hymn book, or the kid's activities, or... Because it's tradition. That's just how things like that work. The Methodist denomination is dying, like most of the old, stuffy churches. Has been for a while. Other denominations have risen up to take its place. In a hundred years, some of them will be singing the exact same songs they are now, with the exact same fog-and-laser show, serving the exact same coffee, with the exact same posters on the wall. And people will be wondering why. Thank-you. |
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No just tired of seen the Mormon thread. Needs to be balanced by questions for Amish, Catholics, etc. Quoted:
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Drinking early today? No just tired of seen the Mormon thread. Needs to be balanced by questions for Amish, Catholics, etc. If there is something violating the CoC in that Mormon thread, please report it. If you don't like that thread, don't click on it. If you actually want serious answers to the questions in your OP, I suggest asking in a more respectful/less insulting manner. But, by your admission in the quote above, this thread violates CoC #8. |