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Lizzy F. · 01-02-2011, 02:12 AM

My ex-church pastor once threatened to sit on me. I was 20-something and he was old enough to be my Dad, so he definitely should've known better.

I told him in a loud voice: "I don't give favors to old men with pot bellies!"

Somehow he learned to respect my physical boundaries after that.

**Phatchick** · 01-02-2011, 01:58 PM

(01-02-2011 02:12 AM)Lizzy F. Wrote: My ex-church pastor once threatened to sit on me. I was 20-something and he was old enough to be my Dad, so he definitely should've known better.

I told him in a loud voice: "I don't give favors to old men with pot bellies!"

ROTFLMAO!

I LIKE you!

Just Curious · 01-02-2011, 02:18 PM

(01-02-2011 01:58 PM)Phatchick Wrote:
(01-02-2011 02:12 AM)Lizzy F. Wrote: My ex-church pastor once threatened to sit on me. I was 20-something and he was old enough to be my Dad, so he definitely should've known better.

I told him in a loud voice: "I don't give favors to old men with pot bellies!"

ROTFLMAO!
I LIKE you!

Hear hear!!!

**LMcC** · 01-04-2011, 01:17 PM

(01-01-2011 05:44 PM)Beaker Wrote: My third-grade teacher (BJU grad) insisted that we had control over our sneezes and would yell at us for not stifling them. To this day, I have no idea how one would stop a sneeze, but I used to feel really guilty when I sneezed.

Oh, oh, wanna send me in with the jerk? I always sneeze three times in a row, and very loudly. Sometimes that can get painful. Control sneezes? I wish! Undecided

Beaker · 01-04-2011, 04:03 PM

Yeah, she was bizarre. For a long time, I thought the principle of No Sneezing was a doctrinal position taught by BJU.

Benediction · (This post was last modified: 01-04-2011 05:03 PM by Benediction.)

(01-04-2011 10:39 AM)chris1000bc Wrote: I don't understand how a pastor can get to a place where he just commands people to do things...and what's even more crazy, they listen. Obviously, I understand their commanding us not to disobey some clearly taught sin in Scripture, but commanding us where to go to school seems like too much.

I am sure if you went to Fundy school somewhere, then you can think of several sermons where the person just said something unbelievable.

My parents are divorced. My mom and stepfather are huge fundies and my dad just doesn't care. My dad and stepmother and brother planned a huge trip to Key West one summer for my nineteenth birthday. My mother refused to let me go to that "wicked, godforsaken place" and I in no uncertain terms informed her that I would, in fact, be going. She had our pastor call and berate me about the sins awaiting me in Key West. After all of the emotional manipulation I called my dad and told him that I couldn't go. He was heartbroken.

Six months later our pastor's family went on a vacation to. . . wait for it. . . Key West. Our pastor had a secret affair and eventually ran off with a young woman in our church three years later.

Oh, it was of course okay that they went. It was off season.

Don · (This post was last modified: 01-04-2011 05:44 PM by Don.)

Quote:Six months later our pastor's family went on a vacation to. . . wait for it. . . Key West. Our pastor had a secret affair and eventually ran off with a young woman in our church three years later.
Oh, it was of course okay that they went. It was off season.

Quote: He was heartbroken.

It breaks my heart to hear that one.

I have a real issue with the whole caste/class system that puts one man in charge and gives him that much power over people. That IS the mark of a cult. This is not the biblical model for pastors or church practice.
Don't get me wrong I thank God for men who are able to study Scripture in depth and exposit the same. However, I have nothing but contempt for those who have made ministry their profession for profit and power. Even the meanest paid pulpiteer will not relinquish his position because of the power he wields over his people. The best and most humble of men will eventually succumb to the lure and seduction of that power and use it for their own agenda... and because that power is so readily available there are many men of questionable and shady character who actively seek the pulpit just to tap into that constant rush of egotism.

yep that was one of my fundie triggers.
*dismounts soap-box: sticks the landng*

cordovan · 01-04-2011, 07:51 PM

(01-04-2011 05:02 PM)Benediction Wrote: Six months later our pastor's family went on a vacation to. . . wait for it. . . Key West. Our pastor had a secret affair and eventually ran off with a young woman in our church three years later.
Oh, it was of course okay that they went. It was off season.

Maybe that proves the evils of Key West! Big Grin

Historian · 01-04-2011, 11:14 PM

(01-01-2011 04:25 PM)Faith Wrote: I promise I am not making this up. When I was in junior high, we got a newly minted BJU preacher boy as our new youth pastor. He had all kinds of fun new rules for us. One of them was that we were no longer allowed to read the comics in the newspaper. No, it wasn't that hippy Doonesbury strip he was worried about. It was Garfield. Garfield glorified gluttony (which was a sin we weren't used to hearing about) and was unfit reading for a properly sanctified Baptist teen.

This same wing-nut once used as an illustration of proper marital submission that he had successfully limited his wife to two (yes two) squares of toilet paper per bathroom visit. I lost touch with him after I left the church, so I don't know for sure how that worked out for him long-term. I hope for her sake she came to her senses and got out while she was still young and childless.

I don't know how to take this. I mean, on the one hand, who knew there was a preacher boy who actually thought gluttony was a sin? I didn't think you could even get into the preacher boy program unless you signed the 30/30 pledge. (Being at least 30 pounds overweight by age 30.)

Of course on the other hand, can you say Pharisee?. "They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others...Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves...Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness."

**Scorpio** · 01-05-2011, 02:41 PM

(01-01-2011 10:37 PM)Phatchick Wrote:
(01-01-2011 07:13 PM)amilyn Wrote: When we got in the car my husband looked at me and said I am the head of the house but we know you are the boss hahaha.
An old friend of ours told the Bear (my hubby) that secret to martial success was in a man learning three two word phrases-
1) You're right.
2) I'm sorry.
3) Yes, darling.
The Bear has learned his lessons well; we've been happily married of 15 years.

I figured out how to get along with my wife. I always get the last word in with my wife......that word being "dear". As in yes dear, or course dear, anything you say dear.