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Churches as Star Wars
Found this link via the Blogsburg Confession. Hilarious. I would offer a few corrections from my perspective:
I think of the Ewoks more as cute than weird, so I'm not sure that they are the Orthodox. Perhaps Yoda is the Orthodox? Ancient and totally devoted to the Tradition of the Force. No, Luke, you cannot cut short your Jedi training and run off and save your friends! You're circumventing the tradition!
Now, the Fearsome Pirate obviously, as a male, underestimates the role of Han Solo. He is handsome, brave, dashing, cocky, and a complete scoundrel who is ultimately redeemed, mostly by the love of a good woman. Millions of Gen X women have grown up with Han Solo as their ideal male. He is our bad boy par excellence. You must understand that for us, The Empire Strikes Back is a romance. Luke Schmuke, we'll take Han Solo any day. He may not have The Force, but he is the most interesting character in that trilogy. So the Baptists, I'm sorry to say, are nowhere near as cool as Han Solo. Not sure who could even be that cool. Baptists, you can be Chewbacca. Big, and cool by association.
I suppose I could think some more and go on, but I don't want to revel in my geekitude too much.
Um...Han was a Baptist. Think in terms of the testimony he could give!
That is the thing. It is not the piracy, it is the born-again redemption
thing.
Or another way to think of it ->
Oh, yes we are as cool as that. You take that back! Who are the Methodists in this paradigm anyway? That would be Lea. Nervy. Moved by the Spirit (Force) and likely to see everyone else as a project.
;-)
AngloBaptist [tripp@anglobaptist.org]
JarJar?! Hahahahahahahahaaaaaaa!
Whooop!!
AngloBaptist [tripp@anglobaptist.org]
Before I got to the end of your post, and without reading fearsomepirate's
blog, I had totally decided that the Baptists were Han Solo. Anyone
remotely familiar with Baptist history (and able to get over Harrison
Ford's supposedly pretty face) would agree. =) The
"no-force-but-good-with-a-blaster" thing translates particularly well as
"no-spirit-but-good-with-a-Bible."
I'm also in complete agreement over the Ewoks as the Orthodox. They like to listen to stories and they're a little bit confused about whether their God is remote and invisible or some gold-coated thing that tells good stories.
My question...(perhaps for my blog)...who/what is the Emergent Church? Perhaps we're the bounty hunters, capable of aligning ourselves with either side when it suits us, incredibly diverse, hard to get a handle on, harder still to intimidate, prone to occasionally go "off the deep end" into a Sarlaac or some such thing... =)
Daniel Robinson [neotheologdeathtospam@godsfamily.com]
A quick correction before Karl tracks me down and disembowels me: the
Ewoks are like the Orthodox because they like to listen to stories and TO
THE REST OF US THEY APPEAR TO BE a little bit confused about whether their
God is remote and invisible or some gold-coated thing that tells good
stories. =)
Daniel [neotheologdeathtospam@godsfamily.com]
Boy, Daniel, you barely escaped that one. And it's not Karl you have to
worry about, but me, the Orthodox wannabe, too!
Clifton D. Healy [chealy5@yahoo.com]
"A quick correction before Karl tracks me down and disembowels me..."
My infamous reputation preceeds me it seems! :)
Very nice, one and all. I love it!
Karl Thienes [karlthienes@hotmail.com]
(Whew!)
Beware the warrior Ewoks! =)
Daniel [neotheologdeathtospam@godsfamily.com]