Grandpa Wierwille's Religion

[skyrider]

The irony of ironies has inhabited the way international.

Back in the early 1970's.......we were hip and so cool to be shaking off our parents' religion. We found

something new and it broke the mold of church and religious monotony......or so we thought. Leaving parents

and family and friends behind, we left to change the world.

They had summer school advances....not retreats.

They had classes on biblical research, not vain worship.

The place had youth everywhere....buzzing excitement and fun.

Grandpa Wierwille was wearing those snazzy, wide-lapel suits to look hip.

Grandpa Wierwille was a few years younger than my own Grandmothers, but I didn't notice.

Grandpa Wierwille had and entourage and handlers like a rock star celebrity.

Grandpa Wierwille would drive away in his motorcoach as followers cheered and waved.

Today, the rock stardom and status is gone from The Way.

Yet....Grandpa Wierwille's Religion is there to stay!

[waysider]

(Don't) Gimme that ol' time religion.

[excathedra]

he always grossed me out

[waysider]

You know he wasn't really my Grandpa, don't you?

[skyrider]

Today......singers on stage dress frumpy,

And........old staffers that usher are grumpy.

The wheelchairs roll in,

Reading the sermon begins.

The mass exodus of THOUSANDS was indeed bumpy.

[skyrider]

The wheelchairs roll in,

Just trying to be funny.....not offensive :unsure:

[waysider]

When the service is over, do they sing "roll........? well, you know...

[Thomas Loy Bumgarner]

Today......singers on stage dress frumpy,

And........old staffers that usher are grumpy.

The wheelchairs roll in,

Reading the sermon begins.

The mass exodus of THOUSANDS was indeed bumpy.

haiku to you

[WordWolf]

Once upon a time, twi was depicted as groovy, cool, hip and edgy,

the opposite of fossilized, dry religion.

Today, all twi HAS is fossilized, dry religion.

[skyrider]

Once upon a time, twi was depicted as groovy, cool, hip and edgy,

the opposite of fossilized, dry religion.

Today, all twi HAS is fossilized, dry religion.

Yeah.......LEGALISM does that as congregants shrink in fear and fossilized in trepidation.

Without the energy of youth.....Grandpa Wierwille's Religion would have looked like this in the 1970s!!

Dress it up all they want and it still can't DANCE...

[Thomas Loy Bumgarner]

Once upon a time , there was an ogre named Rumpelstilkin/Victor Paul Wierwille(Mister Gold) who had a family farm and pulled the wool over our eyes, and an evil queen/witch named Regina/Rosalie who sold poisoned apples in a class called PFAL/WAP. The innocent victims were Snow White and Prince Charming, along with Cinderella and others and their story can be seen Sunday Night on ABC. Actually, we all did live in a fairy tale story until the Grinch Martindale threatened them all with violence. Is there a happy ending? You decide, I know I have one.

Edited January 17, 2012 by Thomas Loy Bumgarner