TOTALLY GEEKED!

huskerbb · Guru

RE: Candy With Bible Tracts

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

And, I suspect as more and more people do that, then eventually, since people USED to want to participate in the spirit of some event without making it all about their agenda, that eventually, we will just have some central parade, trunk or treats, etc and skip the whole residential thing.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

lilyofcourse wrote:
Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
You don't speak for all Christians. I think its a big nothing.
You think communion is a big nothing? Wow. That says a lot.

No, I said Halloween is a big nothing. That is what I thought you were referring too.

huskerbb · Guru

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
And, I suspect as more and more people do that, then eventually, since people USED to want to participate in the spirit of some event without making it all about their agenda, that eventually, we will just have some central parade, trunk or treats, etc and skip the whole residential thing.

I doubt it. Most people don't take a couple of pamphlets so personally.

PotteryChick · Member

This is the strangest thread I've ever read.

Dona Worry Be Happy · Vette's SS!!

I used to get those. They are the stupidest thing ever. I have never, ever read one that actually made me think.
Even as a very little kid--maybe 7?-- I found them irritating. Grown-ups that had never heard of Jesus? Trite, unbelievable dialog? Unrealistic scenarios? THAT was what was supposed to make me want to be a Christian?
I think the people who write them have an unrealistic idea of the mentality of a child.

Or maybe I was just a bitter and cynical little girl.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Dona, growing up my parents took me to a fire and brimstone church. Literally everyone was going to burn in hell for some reason. That was the sermon every Sunday. And the preacher was apparently halfway there because he'd yell and scream so loudly about damnation that he'd sweat and get all red in the face. They gave us those hellfire and damnation tracks to hand out. They even had little pictures of people burning up in flames. I don't remember any of that making a difference for us.

Dona Worry Be Happy · Vette's SS!!

They are just so. . . Silly!
Someone tells a story to a grown man and he burst into tears and is saved? Really? Jesus himself swooped down from heaven to grab the steering wheel when a woman looses control of her car and prays aloud? Really?
Nope. Never made the slightest difference to me spiritually. I would never hand a pamphlet on halloween for any religion. . . But if I did, you bet I would spell check and edit the sucker. (Yeah. . . Some of those childhood booklets were bad. The poor spelling and grammar was always much more likely to upset my mother than the ridiculous stories.)

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Well, we hated them and we had to hand the damn things out.

I always wondered why anyone would want to go to our church. If you came there it meant you were going to hell.

Mellow Momma · Sniff...sniff, sniff. Yay! A Bum!

PotteryChick wrote:
This is the strangest thread I've ever read.

You ain't seen nothin yet sister.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Dona Worry Be Happy wrote:
They are just so. . . Silly!
Someone tells a story to a grown man and he burst into tears and is saved? Really? Jesus himself swooped down from heaven to grab the steering wheel when a woman looses control of her car and prays aloud? Really?
Nope. Never made the slightest difference to me spiritually. I would never hand a pamphlet on halloween for any religion. . . But if I did, you bet I would spell check and edit the sucker. (Yeah. . . Some of those childhood booklets were bad. The poor spelling and grammar was always much more likely to upset my mother than the ridiculous stories.)

Here's the thing. I'm a Christian, and I never read them. Never read them when I got them as a kid, even though I went to church regularly. Of course, I had a Bible - what did I need a tract for?

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Mellow Momma wrote:
PotteryChick wrote:
This is the strangest thread I've ever read.
You ain't seen nothin yet sister.

I was thinking she/he must be sheltered.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Every Sunday if we could say our Bible verse we got a tract and a box of Junior Mints. Guess where the tracts went?

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Our church never used them. I think the only thing we ever did was put an invitation to church on things.

But I have seen them. Some are better written than others.

I found a ton of them while working in the public. In dressing rooms, on tables, bathrooms.

I threw them away. Big deal.