#perjury - it's a #liberal #pentecostal #fakechristian thing...
#kangaroocourtofaustralia

https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2019/10/05/hillsong-church-pastor-brian-houston-perjured-himself-at-the-child-sex-abuse-royal-commission-the-evidence/

The roots of Devo in a #Pentecostal worship service (at 43 minutes in) is a real surprise.

Glossolalia and de-evolution!

Edited w hashtags & 🚀'ing for @NPR (& b/c it's a good article!)

"Why you might notice more #religious groups at #Pride celebrations this year

Some #PeopleOfFaith are organizing a pushback against wave of anti-#LGBTQ rights legislation making its way thru state houses this year. They're calling it #FaithForPride."

#Queer folk, you are not just accepted, you are welcome. 💛

#Transgender #Christian #Jewish #Muslim #Hindu #Black #Pentecostal #Interfaith #Allyship

#press

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180648074/why-you-might-notice-more-religious-groups-at-pride-celebrations-this-year

"Foundations of Pentecostal Theology" Offers Comprehensive Coverage of #Pentecostal #Theology https://www.ulmf.network/2023/05/foundations-of-pentecostal-theology.html

I can't overemphasize the importance of reading this even if you are not Australian (ESPECIALLY if you are an American or Canadian) because unless you are following closely you simply have no idea where these so-called "Christians" and the useful idiot politicians that kowtow to them really want to take the world (and it is NOT a good place!).

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#christofascist #christofascism #christofascists #christianity #christian #exvangelical #religionsucks #politics #dominionism #pentecostal #pentecostalism

I'm starting to think the people writing about #Asbury's #Revival don't know much about #Holiness #Wesleyan #Pentecostal churches

In the 70's & 80's a revival would pop-up that lasted weeks

The local church down the road has a service on Sunday night that sometimes last days. We hear the commotion. That occurs often, still

I was raised old school Nazarene

The articles I am reading compare these to the professional crusades, like Billy Grahams. Those weren't revivals.

"certain theologies teach that women should submit to their husbands, or to male authority more generally...this can scaffold and sanction abuse"

Seems #Pentecostal cults are even more patriarchal than Catholic Church.
And women are leaving in droves. https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/2023/02/27/pentecostal-church-gender-numbers/ https://twitter.com/simon_rosenberg/status/1629935625528049664?s=12&t=MSJl7WPw2PgF99hxCur_hQ

"certain theologies teach that women should submit to their husbands, or to male authority more generally...this can scaffold and sanction abuse"

Seems #Pentecostal cults are even more patriarchal than Catholic Church.
And women are leaving in droves. https://twitter.com/simon_rosenberg/status/1629935625528049664?s=12&t=MSJl7WPw2PgF99hxCur_hQ https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/2023/02/27/pentecostal-church-gender-numbers/

"certain theologies teach that women should submit to their husbands, or to male authority more generally...this can scaffold and sanction abuse"

Seems #Pentecostal cults are even more patriarchal than Catholic Church.
And women are leaving in droves. https://twitter.com/simon_rosenberg/status/1629935625528049664?s=12&t=MSJl7WPw2PgF99hxCur_hQ

@tanquist @cridge17

Also, in the #Pentecostal or #Holiness church, you could lose your "Born Again" status at a drop of a bucket and start the process all over again until complete nervous breakdown or utter backsliding away from religion happened over a period of sin/saved cycles.

I know very few that just changed denomination franchises after leaving a holiness franchise, not that it doesn't happen.

@cridge17
In the #Pentecostal church we were expected to give a #Testimony about our depraved life before being #BornAgain. We were in the company of former mobsters and prostitutes. I felt inadequate because I didn't feel born again and in my previous life I was a #Methodist. The congregation was kind and accepting anyway.

@cridge17
My friend had sworn off #JuvenileDelinquency and joined a #Pentecostal group. That group hooked him up with a group in Lahaina so we had a cheap place to stay and interesting church services to attend.

@robin @almostheretical

Oh, wow. I haven't heard of that one (probably because it's not in the USA). I will have to read into them.

I grew up in a #pentecostal #ChurchOfGod and it's amazing the bubble that you can be kept it, even when going to a public school. I didn't start to question anything until well into my teens.

Did you have to move to be part of a free church community?

I only met him once, but it was a good day.

Pastor Jimmy Morrow of the Edwina Church of God in Jesus Christ’s Name, in Tennessee, invited our group of outsiders to sit in on his church services - without judgment - for a day of songs, sermons, and serpents.

Rest in peace.

#pastorjimmymorrow #jimmymorrow #pentecostal #appalachia #folkart #snakehandler

@SrRochardBunson @AdmiralFrosty Assemblies of God (the other big #pentecostal denomination in the USA) believes exactly that same shit. In fact that was the point at which I started to break with the church. Way back when I cane across this slightly irreverent tract (which contains several now dated cultural references):

https://web.archive.org/web/20070820045150/http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/Library/priddy/ibi_4_2.htm

I read that and my thought was, those preachers study the original languages and they had to have known that there were three completely different words with different meanigs that were all translated as "hell", but in over two decades of going to church I never once heard that fact talked about from the pulpit or in Sunday school. Basically, according to their own book, the "hell" that we were all so terrified of is reserved for the devil and the fallen angels only, not for humans. But of course that was the big secret that they did not want to reveal because fear of "hell" was about the only thing that kept some people in the church. My question was, if they were willing to mislead us on something so core to our beliefs as that, the thing that had given us nightmares as kids and was a constant background source of terror and #ReligiousTrauma in our lives, then what ELSE had they been lying to us about?

Quite a bit, as it turns out, but I can't contain it all in a toot. But once you start to realize that preachers lie all the time, even about fundamental things, it really helps you put things in the proper persperctive.

I also started #deconstructing around 2000. I suspect a lot of people did, and for the same reason: The Internet had just become widely available, and suddenly with the click of a mouse we could look into things they would not let us discuss in #church. And when you start to realize your religion is not the nice, neat, tied up with a bow thing you had been led to believe, that can set you on the path of #descontruction.

@AdmiralFrosty

Very interesting. I was raised hardcore Chuch of God. For those not familiar, it is a VERY conservative, #pentecostal and #charismatic denomination REALLY into "the Gifts of the Holy Spirit".

We were there twice on Sunday and at least Wednesday night. I think the part that still sticks with me the most is the #ReligiousTrauma caused by their belief in hell. I legitimately thought that if I was a perfect kid & said a cuss word immediately before getting hit by a bus, that I would suffer and burn in #hell for #eternity.

WTF?!?

Hundreds of #Christian organizations — neo-#Pentecostal churches especially, but also #Catholic groups — were involved with or had members take part in the attempted coup in #Brazil. The lengths that people will go to bring #Christianity into disrepute
https://religionnews.com/2023/01/17/christians-represented-significant-faction-of-capital-rioters-in-brazil/

@Woodchaz

I am right there with you, and I would love to read whatever you are able to do! My offer to help still stands.

Get some cheap legal pads and write!Screw editing!

Much of my family live in #MTG district, if that tells you anything.

I've been keeping my powder dry and biting my tongue until I am they are ready for a very difficult conversation. They have always been very #conservative #pentecostal church goers, and I worry daily about them falling into the #Christofascist trap.

This is very #hillbilly #Christian of me, but #OysterCrackers will always be the body of #Christ.

#protestant #Eucherist #Ohio #Pentecostal

@weaniejeanie53 #Pentecostal owl.