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[bubosquared]

This has got to be a joke, right?

[ETA] After checking out the forums, I'm pretty sure it is. Phew. Although apparently this "dating missionary" thing is actually something people really do, which is still disturbing.[/ETA]

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[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

You see the kind of people I'm surrounded by? Although most sane Xians pefer to date their own and not do this sort of witnessing.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I followed a link to that from a post in pagan from a girl whose boyfriend broke up with her because she wouldn't convert. It was pretty clear the almost only dated her to "save" her, and "apparently all hiw nagging hadn't worked". Don't even get me started on the concept of "nagging" someone into a religion (or frightening them with the fires of hell, for that matter), because ARGH!

And people wonder why I'm hesitant to join organised religions. Sigh.

[hidingthestars.livejournal.com]

Huh? Just when I think I've seen it all. Manohman.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, that site itself is a joke, but this whole "missionary dating" thing? Apparently for real.

*sprays Twits-B-Gone on her religion, weeps*

[hidingthestars.livejournal.com]

*twitches* My brain is so not wrapping around it, and that's probably for the best.

*orders some too*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Things like this is why I want to start my own church. NO IDIOTS OR BIGOTS ALLOWED!

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

She's okay. She's not smokin'. Mormon chicks, on the other hand? What a waste. [/shallow]

[rsadelle]

Oh, bother. I pulled out books and Googled to try to find the epistle that provides a scriptural justification for this, and then there she is citing it on her page! (Although not the way I was thinking of it.)

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, "The Two shall be one flesh." (I Cor 6:15-16)

I always took that to mean that sex with penetration and ejaculation would be a good alternative to baptism as a means of conversion.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

"Members of Christ" just makes me think of Jesus' penis. Or rather, Jesus' penises, and that's just wrong!

[katemonkey.livejournal.com]

The only group that ever did anything like that was the Children of God group in the 70s, who had this thing called Flirty Fishing, in which members would go out and sleep with people to convert them.

That's the only organised case of it, as far as I can recall. There might be stupid people who think they can do it themselves, but...

[wibbble]

It's definitely a spoof, and pretty hilarious, especially when you look at the 'Speaking in tongues' thong...

http://www.cafepress.com/datetosave.19468622

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I wasn't sure if it was until I got to the FAQ. My faith in humanity is at an all-time low, it seems. I blame dot_sex_snark.

[jamaisneutral.livejournal.com]

but... don't you WANT to be saved?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Being really shallow here: Not by her, thanks. :D