bewareofthevictorwerewolf

We will continue to dialogue and try to occupy the place where we can intersect without controversy, It is a shame religious leaders like politicians let us down by failing to self regulate against the temptation to sin. My wife and I are mainstream evangelical Christians and so from our vanatge point we can see how God's people get burned and turned off ("I like your Christ..." -Ghandi), and go elsewhere into another den of wolves. We're not part of a church community currently because of petty keeping up with Jones' mentaility, and garden variety judgmentalism, and we haven't joined a few mega church's who's services are moving, if highly produced, because of their institutional arrognace and Starbucks like branding of Christ. But we're hopeful a place exists for us. The only thing I can say is Christ is perfect; Christ Americanized is far from it most of the time with moments of brillance here and there. Thanks to all who shared. We'll keep you posted....

I'm motherof2's husband, and I've joined in the discussion because I'm totally mystefied by the hold TWI theology has on its followers. Mainly how people could continue clinging to such false consciousness still to this day when the leadership was found to have in some cases defrauded them or in more serious instances misabused their power to cuckold spouses of followers they lusted for and desired among the many other cases of malfeasance. I mean this is powerful stuff; lightning in a bottle. When you can pull off wifeswapping in the name of Christ, you have a serious control. In fairness to the adherents (who are guilty only insofar as they longed to be filled with a meaning for their lives that only God can satisfy which TWI took supreme advantage of) is it possible the collective memory of the powerfully strong and meaningful experiences of a bonded community of adherents is stronger than the distaste of betrayal and it keeps people clinging in the face of todays shallow connectivity in a mainly wired world. Or is it the kind of pride that ignores failure beacuse it would negate the real communal expereinces described above and continues to morph upstream to keep the proverbail fire burning? Whatever it is, it's like a virus whose wild spread growth has been stunted for sure, but is it now dormant but still living amongst us waiting to rear it's ugly head again like a dogmatic ebola? It's crazy how her relatives act; what can be done????