Where the hell did you live 30 years ago? Haiti?

I lived in the freaking Ozarks then, and we showered daily.

Maybe your parents didn't have good hygiene?

Posted by TominSantaMonica]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:14:59 -0800 The Stranger
I think people that don't feel the need to shower at least once a day are gross.

YECH!
Posted by TominSantaMonica]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:04:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by siddis]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:34:58 -0800 The Stranger
I've learned some people shower, others don't. Some people shower more than once a day (if, for example we have been to the beach or in NYC). I only offer a clean towel if guests stay a week, or are really dirty ;-)

In the end, you still have to strip the bed and wash the sheets. After that towels are a breeze...
Posted by siddis]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:33:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by inkweary]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:57:23 -0800 The Stranger Posted by BobbyP2001]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:54:54 -0800 The Stranger
* quoted from a 2008 SLOG post - too lazy to try to find it right now.
Posted by I am your Mother]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:02:31 -0800 The Stranger Jesus was the kind of guy that Driscoll would hate.
Posted by gfrancie]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:41:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Liberal mainline]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:32:34 -0800 The Stranger
All evangelical churches appeal to those who need someone to give them guidance in life and cannot figure life out for themselves.

For example, men who cannot figure out women go to evangelical churches which give them a black-and-white, easy-to-understand and male-ego-flatterng rule: the husband rules the wife.

Whether "chickified" like other evangelical churches, or balls-ified as Mars Hill fashions itself, evangelical churches will always exist in the United States to help weak-minded people figure out the most basic shit of life that they cannot, for some reason, seem to ever figure out for themselves.

John Calvin would agree: God made these people weak-minded and God made Mark Driscoll a short-sighted fool who is preparing his own idiotic downfall.




Posted by Glossy]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:38:24 -0800 The Stranger Posted by scary tyler moore]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:34:53 -0800 The Stranger
Chandler: "Soap is soap. It's self-cleaning."

Joey: "Yeah, but think about the last thing I wash and the first thing you wash."
Posted by rob]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:13:44 -0800 The Stranger
i'm sure driscoll is just thrilled to have the press.
Posted by slackerina]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:03:26 -0800 The Stranger
I'm so glad to know I have a kindred spirit out there, because I just re-fold the used guest towels after they dry and leave them for the next guest to use. Saves a lot on laundry bills.

I'd shower less, but I get pillow hair something fierce. It won't settle back into acceptable repose without being doused.
Posted by The One Who Knows All]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:56:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by banjoboy]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:39:01 -0800 The Stranger Driscoll is more mainstream than you may think. He is a Calvinist, ie Presbyterian.

Actually, no, he's not. His level of Calvinism is what you commonly find in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, which has roughly 27,000 members total. Yeah, the church has that shiny megachurch look and that new evangelical smell, but underneath it's more Reformed than most Presbyterians can stand.

And Presbyterian is Calvin in name only nowadays, at least in the PC(USA) and the EPC. The PCA is a mix, and they're about trying to balance their fundamentalism with the Reformed movement, which actually don't mix all that well, since Reformed is a Calvinist tradition and Christian fundamentalism originally in churches that believe in free will.

But more to the point, I lost $5 because I had Dan's 1000 word anti-Driscoll screed predicted to be up by noon. Damn you.

It's a great article, written by someone who actually understands what's going on and unpacks it one nesting doll at a time. Every time you think you have the money quote, you spot a better line in the next paragraph.
Posted by dw]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:36:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by PopTart]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:14:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mr. Clean]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:46:44 -0800 The Stranger
"When one of the renegade elders refused to repent, the church leadership ordered members to shun him. One member complained on an online message board and instantly found his membership privileges suspended. “They are sinning through questioning,” Driscoll preached."

When questioning authority is a sin, then the patriarch has the power to assfuck anybody in the organization.
Posted by eclexia]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:32:19 -0800 The Stranger
(btw, this isn't eBay. Have your nurse help you with that.)
Posted by Old people shouldn't run....]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:29:55 -0800 The Stranger That's nothing. Once the Light Rail boondoggle collapses, you can frame and sell original copies of Prop. 1. on E-bay.


Posted by e-Bay Grandma Fan]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:53:59 -0800 The Stranger
Plus you get to play with mini soaps and baby shampoos! What's not to love about that?
Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:23:53 -0800 The Stranger
As for Mark Driscoll, he can try to make Calvinism more palatable to 21st century teenagers, and even enjoy some success, but this theology still sucks. There's a well known quote from a few months back, something about lipstick and pigs...
Posted by RainMan]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:49:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by lindsay l]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:31:27 -0800 The Stranger