“They can gyrate in religious ecstasy”
Posted on January 16th, 2007 by catalyst into the Things Dougie wouldn't do category
The New York Times has a three part series discussing the difficulty the Pentacostal Church is having keeping their youth in church. The series does not really delve into any new topics, but it does have this fun paragraph describing the struggles of teenage Evangelicals.
And for the teenagers, it means navigating a tricky adolescence in which the boundaries are strict, but not always understandable. They can have cellphones and video games, but are told not to watch television. They can date, but preferably only other Pentecostals and then sometimes only with a chaperon. Dancing is taboo, but they can gyrate in religious ecstasy. Horror movies are bad, yet preachers regale them with gruesome visions of the apocalypse.
What? "Dancing is taboo, but they can gryate in religious ecstasy". I did not know this; this is news to me. At City Bible/Bible Temple, they define "gyrating in religious ecstasy" as hopping up and down.
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January 16th, 2007 at 7:48 am
From the article:
Gee, that sounds like I feel almost every sunday.
January 16th, 2007 at 8:16 am
It’s amazing I ever got my first job when the only talent I could list on my resume after growing up at BT was a mastery of the “BT 2-Step”!!
January 16th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Gyrate in religious exstacy?
9 months later that leads to “birthing in the spirit”…
January 16th, 2007 at 10:05 am
I have heard of people who gyrate in ecstacy, and who have been known to call out the name of God, but that’s another post.
January 16th, 2007 at 10:35 am
I agree, catalyst. When I last visited “Bible Temple” (called the “cult on the hill” by my conservative Christian friends) in the mid 1990s, the youth appeared to hop in place — not gyrate.
It’s interesting how Christian culture calls on youth to seperate from evil secular society by merely Christianizing the latest trends.
January 16th, 2007 at 10:54 am
The word ‘robotron’ comes to mind, followed quickly by ‘bunnyrabbit’.
And usually with a watered-down cheesy version of it about 5 years late to where it’s doubly irrelevant!