Posted on 08/03/2005 1:08:29 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Huge crowds, rabid devotees and no Mick Jagger in sight. Are you afraid?
Mark Morford
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
I have never been to a big creepy megachurch. This is my first confession.
I have never been to, say, Lakewood Church in Houston, the biggest, glossiest megachurch of all, which just dumped a staggering $75 million to renovate the former stadium for the Houston Rockets and turn it into a massive pulsing swaying arm-raisin' eye-glazed weirdly repressed House o' Jesus.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
But you really don't need to attend one of these surreal spectacles to realize that most of us should kneel down right now in heartfelt gratitude that we have never been forced to endure, say, the all-paunchy-married-man revue of a Promise Keepers rally, or the bizarre pious cheerleading of a Harvest Crusade in L.A., and hence we have been blessedly devoid of the taint of guys like Greg Laurie, one of the new breed of sleek, preening pastors, a strange new mutant species of pastor-CEO-huckster-salesman, who leads the big Harvest chant-alongs and who writes milky best-selling self-help books, books that claim to know something of God but that somehow never mention single-malt scotch or Tom Waits or grinning Buddha icons or chocolate ice cream drizzled on a lover's tailbone, slowly, tantalizingly. Greg. Sweetheart. You so don't know God. I'm just sayin'.
I'm guessing the author is a militant homosexual. Just a wild guess.
isnt CA one those homo-stoner states? that should explain it all
Sounds like the author believes that experiencing God is akin to self gratification. Makes sense... each lefty is the most important thing in the universe to themselves.
So is this Morford's first shot out of the box after being promoted from the Chronicle's web site to newsprint?
Only difference I can see is less cussing. But yes, he's still a homo.
I see you've met Ms. Morford. Using the word "homosexual" to describe Ms. Morford is just not enough. The words properly used to describe her are just not repeatable on FR.
She writes screeds like this regularly for the Comical out there in San Cramcrisco, and they're all like this...run-on sentences; rabid hatred of any part of the country east of Marin County, conservatives, Republicans, Christians, and heterosexuals; and at least two references to masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, or the Kama Sutra.
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Should be "Morford alert."
Already posted somewhere but I don't really care as I avoid this idiot at all costs.
Saw the Stones once in Jersey in the late 70's.
They were 2-3 hours late.
Sound system sucked.
They played 45 minutes and left.
Enjoyed watching the ensuing RIOT.
Twas no religious experience and no refund either.
Not to dis Tom Waits, but I wonder if the author has ever heard of J.S. Bach. He wrote some fairish music for the liturgy of my church.
Wow, now there's a backed up drainpipe if I've ever heard one.
There are lots of devout Christians in California. I grew up in Texas, but now live in California.
In fact, the Christians I know in California are more devout than the ones that I know in Texas.
In California, you really have to know what you believe to say you are a Christian because you will be persecuted here.
My church is a very small passionate church, and I love all of the members of the church.
"I have never been to, say, Lakewood Church in Houston"
It would cut down on the time he'd have to go to bath houses and retrieve the soap...
Is it paragraph, or a run-on sentence? Perhaps both. Either way, it is bizarre, but standard fare for Msr. Morford.
Last column I read it was chocolate truffles on a lover's tailbone. I think I am learning more about weird homo fetishes than I care to know.
But this was the sentence that drew me - "and malicious teenage abstinence seminars".
That one probably kills him. All those young teens being armored against being seduced by perverts.
You should know that (in FR parlance), Morford's beeber is permanently stuned.
Or a raving anti-Christian bigot. What hatred!
Hey Mark Morford....why don't you turn off the old Bronski-beat tunes, quit playing the bone dance with your partner and maybe listen to what's being said in there, not what your pathetic anti-Christian hate tells you. People like you hate to be told what you are doing is wrong or harmful, that is why you hate them. I would say ask my gay brother, but I buried him in 1994, another senseless casualty in the AIDS Epidemic. He had little time for a christian message as well.
In case he hasn't made his "orientation" clear, this appears on his bio page
Go ahead, pretend like you don't know. Pretend like the Divine isn't whispering nasty love notes into the ear of your soul as you read this and stare at this picture and admire its juicy double meanings. Pretend like you're just going about your day, same as it ever was, as if you didn't have the opportunity to fire up the love gun of your buzzing hot nature on a whim. Go ahead.
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