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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPeople who can speak in tongues, why don't they ever do it outside of a church service?
You'd think with an ability like that, sometimes they'd exhibit it in the boardroom, in the bedroom, in the workplace, in the classroom....
Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)and it is really weird to hear, since it is basically gibberish.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)It's not an inherent talent. You're a conduit for god via holy ghost communicating holy messages which no one can understand but which your fellow religionists love to witness. If the spirit descended on you in school or elsewhere, you would speak in tongues there, but the deity amazingly prefers to manifest in church--you'd think the god of "prosperity christians" like DT would jump at the chance to speak to business leaders, but apparently not.
1965Comet
(175 posts)to afflict them with glossolalia unless they are in his house, I guess...
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)The incoherent babbling is as made up as the rapture.
The gift of tongues was given to the Apostles at Penecost and was the ability to speak and understand multiple languages.
Pope John Paul II spoke 19 languages, you would say he had the gift of tongues.
Catholics of almost all rites and Orthodox do not accept the nonsensical babbling those who do it call the language of angels. There is a Charismatics Catholic movement made up mostly of ex Protestants who do the babbling, but it is not mainstream.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)It's a hustle that's being pulled.
My 6 year old is starting to see through the bs. Too bad more can't do the same.
IndianaDave
(612 posts)hanilakah bekogo pelimoo hajahmiloop. Humor!
TBA
(825 posts)IndianaDave
(612 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)Since it is essentially an act put on by those needing individual attention within their church, to do it outside of the church's safe zone would be akin to saying, I'm really a fucking dumb ass.
Javaman
(62,531 posts)HAB911
(8,904 posts)hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)I had forgotten all about him!!!! Is he still selling snake oil, etc.?
HAB911
(8,904 posts)KG
(28,751 posts)KG
(28,751 posts)Paladin
(28,266 posts)This was back when Dan Patrick was an AM hate radio owner in Houston, years ago. He got a little over-enthusiastic while talking about Mel Gibson's Jesus movie, and broke into a minute or so of on-air ululations about it. It was almost as entertaining as his on-air shrieking session over Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl.
Ol' Dan (who admits to a history of mental problems) is now busy trying to ruin the TX economy with a bathroom bill that nobody seems to be in favor of, other than himself. The dumbfuck republicans in the state will likely put him in the governor's office at some point---where he'll make Rick Perry look like Churchill, by comparison.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Now if only the hipsters who speak Dothraki and Klingon would get the same hint...
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)I must not know what the word hipster means.
Bryant
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... to songs anyway) and its part of my prayer life.
Get to know a believing believer ... you'd see we're way more progressive than what's portrayed by the shit heads on the right.
lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)But my friends took me back to the barracks until I slept it off.
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Denzil_DC
(7,244 posts)the list could go on, but there are plenty of examples where they do.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)I went to church with a friend back when I was young and dumb and full of you know what. Anyways I asked my dad if it would be OK and he said sure son but I'll tell you right now you won't like it. I went anyway and when my friends mom started talking in tongues and the preacher started pounding on the pulpit with the heal of his shoe I couldn't get out of there fast enough. You see we, me too, at the time, were baptist, the good ole southern kind LOL
Brings back memories
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Speaking in Farts. It gets better as it goes on... I don't have that much of a scatalogical sense of humor but on the rare occassion this things makes me laugh: