Pole Dancing for Jesus

Hmmmmmm.............

You know Ali, I bet you wouldn't be laughing if someone made fun of Allah. You can dish it out. Wonder if you could take it.

The truth is, you can say what you want, Jesus Christ still loves you and still calls you. He will give you a new life. different than the one we are born with. He's the one that told us to love our enemies.

But, his love allows you, yourself, to make the decision on whether or not you want life. If you choose 'no', He lets you go.

Saying yes changed my life.

Since I'm not a Muslim, I wouldn't mind at all, Glome. In fact, I'd probably find it even more amusing, almost Springeresque. Pole dancing in a burqua would be an amazing sight.

And Jesus and Allah are not comparable figures, but I'm sure you know that.

And I'm not making fun of Jesus, Glome.

But it is highly indicative of the victimization that your ilk feeds on that you'd take it that way.

Glome I would think either one is funny since I am not neither a christian or a muslim.

I could safely say that it would be funny to me if I were a Christian or a Muslim. But then again, that's where that sense of humor thing comes in...and I'm not entirely sure you're supposed to have one of those when it comes to stuff like this.

Oh well Ali, Muslim or not, Lord Jesus still calls for you, and you little ms Lori, and you Robin.

I treat Him with respect because He is my God and Lord. Allah I don't recognize, I just don't downgrade him because other maybe would be hurt. But ... to each his own ways.

I just couldn't pass up that minute to preach you guys :)

Ali, I just read your 2nd comment.
I don't feel like a victim. I wasn't even involved in the whole thing. Why do you think I feel like a victim? Just curious.

But Glome dont you think god would have a sense of humor and find this funny?

Oh my Lori ... He does have a sense of humor, you're right. One time the people following him were goofing off and laughing so hard some one came up and told Jesus to keep the noise down. Christ said the joy was so great if they were to cease their noise the rock would break out with laughter. You cannot contain the joy of the Lord. (or something like that. Pretty close)
They did have fun. But one of the things he talked to them about was his holiness. It is a state his state of being.

Making us act like him is like us trying to make a squirrel try to act like a beaver. The squirrel might try it just to please us, but he would do a good job and he would only have the will power to try it for a while. He would give up because he simply didn't have the nature of the Beaver.

But if we took the nature out of the Beaver and actually put it into our squirrl, all of a sudden life would be different. He would WANT to learn how to build a dam. He and the Beaver would really be able to talk together and he would become more and more like the Beaver.

God is holy. He is without sin as He is true to his nature. He deliberately let Adam and Eve make their own choice to sin. That plunged us all into sin because Adam and Eve birthed children with dead spirits.

God decided to come down to earth to talk to us face to face. He called Himself Jesus. Also to live the life of a God man here on earth without sinning. After He was put to death, and payed the price of all our sins, He told us that He would turn us into, non humans, but put the life of God into us and we would become real children of God born out of Him. Each time someone receives Christ life actually leaves him and comes into us.
Sin and the sinful nature of man is what keeps them away from God. We can't stop it ourselves, it must come from God himself. It is our innate sinfulness that separates us from Him. He aches for the girls on the poles and for the men who need to watch her.
So He doesn't find it funny. He wants to break us away from the shackles that pull us to places like that. But He loves them. Calls for them and asks us to love them.
That's what He tells us, but in different words.

But you are right to know he laughs at many things with us.

No, there wouldn't be a Pole Dancing for Allah class. Or even a post on it at Gather.

Why don't you do one, Winston?

I'm sure you can find a Youtube video about it.

Hilarious. What is funnier is people like Winston they cant stick to the issue.

I dont see anything wrong with it...gives the girls some exercise.

It's classic "Short Attention Span" theatre, Lori. Then on to the next talking point.

Winston wasn't changing the subject guys, he was referring to a statement I made ... I think my first statement.

Is the link supposed to go to the Pole Dancing bit? I'm reading about Bill Bennett and a gambling problem.

Fixed it Robin, sorry.

Ok, just checking. Although the Bill Bennett thing was interesting too.

I saw this on the news yesterday, and some of the "tweets" pertaining to it.

All I can picture in my head though is a bunch of older woman in little hats, gloves and short stubby heels with their flowered dresses going "weeeeeeeeeeeee" as they bump and grind the pole. Grannies on poles...

"Jesus and I have more in common than I thought." Love it! Truthfully, I don't think Jesus would care about pole dancing. He was way too deep to get offended by something so shallow.

I agree, this would just be a momentary diversion.

Interesting topic. I'm a Christian and could never imagine going to such a class. However, I'll put a different spin on the topic for you... Biblically speaking, anything between a husband and wife is good as long as it is acceptable to both. If a Christian woman wants to keep her husband's eye focused solely on her, and knows that this type of dancing is appealing to him, there's nothing wrong about it. I've often heard alot of comments regarding lingerie as well and the same goes there. It's far better for a Christian woman to keep her husband's attentions on her than to let it wander by not being attractive for him. And, honestly, I agree with Jolie - Jesus has far more important matters at hand and if the woman's heart is in the right place, that is what counts.

Hey, if that's what makes them feel closer to Jesus, why not???