What does it mean to speak in toungues?

When you say Hosanna in the highest?


What about when some of those fundies put their hands in the air? God that has always freaked me out.

not just fundies... :eyes: it's supposed to be reaching out to God.
I don't do that though.

Talking in tongues is also not done by a number of Christian denominations. It is not saying Hosana in the Highest, it is supposed to be when someone feels they are touched by the Holy Spirit and begins speaking in a language no one understands. I've heard it, it sounds like jibberish....everyone will be standing around praying, and someone will jump up and go "akldiafila" or whatever. That does freak me out, but there are some people who think it's legit, so hey. To each his own.

Supposedly it first happened back in the olden days, the disciples were touched by the Spirit and did that. :shrug:

...either seemed fake to me or seemed like they were being possessed.

when I had to attend my brother's cult for special occassions. The speaking in tongues is supposedly speaking in a language bestowed upon you by God -- a language that no one else knows and/or understands. (To me, it sounded a lot like Pig Latin.)

There was also a couple of women who began to giggle and laugh hysterically. They kicked off their shoes, pulled up their skirts (right in the middle of a children's program), and began to run up and down the aisles then roll on the floor. I guess this was commonplace because the kids performing didn't even miss a beat. I was wondering if they were perhaps mentally instable when my brother whispered to me that they were "drunk in the Spirit."

As for the hand thing... seen it a great deal, but I don't know exactly why it is done. Maybe reaching up to God?

For some odd reason some religions put a high value on the ability to babble endlessly making silly, meaningless mouth noises. For some reason they consider it "holy". I have yet to see a religion that considers it holy to stand up in curch and make goofy faces, but it wouldn't be much different, so why not?

Then again, what about silly walks? Seems like that should be holy too.

she went to an Assembly of God summer camp with a friend(my grandmother didn't know NOT to let her go). Anyway - the first day was fun; normal kid stuff. On the second day, they were paraded in to the camp chapel after breakfast. The doors were shut, then the singing and praying started. My mom stood there and watched while one by one, the kids fell to the ground and flopped around on the floor shreiking and muttering unintelligibly. They seemed to be in some sort of trance. She watched, scared to death, and noticed that once the speaking in tongues occurred, the kid was allowed to leave. So my mom pretended - she faked speaking in tongues to get out of there and then called my grandmother immediately.

and it scared me to death. All the speaking in tongues, dancing in the spirit, falling down and rolling, then the church telling it's members to divorce their spouses if they didn't believe or you weren't healed because you lacked faith just didn't seem quite right to me.

My parents used to take us to tent revivals to have my sister healed..so yeah I've seen lots of it.

My Mom sent me to my neighbor's fundie church, held in a garage across the state line. I was 13. After they tried to cast the demons out of me and seeing all the other stuff, I never went back.

I had an unfortunate period in my life when I would watch televagelists (purely as entertainment as I was in a certain state).

I was watching a Dallas local that had a habit of speaking in tongues occasionally while preaching. Once, and this was one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed, he said (excuse the phonetic spelling):

"Abba doway ba we no badda, folks I'm trying to speak in English, abwa doney ..."

at Pentecost was simply that the Apostles would speak and everyone, regardless of what language they understood would understand them.

Somehow it's changed into this wacky blabbering bit that's supposed to come from the Holy Spirit. I've always found it very odd and kinda disturbing.

david

distant lands. They did not speak the same language. Miraculously they were touched by the holy spirit and everyone understood perfectly what the others were saying. This has become twisted into people babbling incoherently and NO ONE UNDERSTANDS A DING-BLASTED WORD! I had a co-worker once who was an apostolic, tongue-talking holy roller. We were talking and I mentioned a certain protestant religion. She said "But they are not 'full' gospel..." (meaning no good). I asked what "full" gospel meant. She said "Well, do they speak in tongues? In the gospel, the church people spoke in tongues, soooooo..." Therefore... I asked her about the place in the gospel where Jesus said everyone must give everything they own to the church and then the church should give to the ones who are in the greatest need. That wouldn't be liberal, I guess. Wouldn't be Socialism, I guess.

strychnine and yes, they often die. I remember one who was bitten by a rattlesnake and they wouldn't bury him because they were convinced that he would rise from the dead. (he didn't.)

When we were kids, I saw it a few times. It scared the bejeezus out of me. Seemed like gibberish to me. No language I was aware of.

The last time I agreed to attend church with this friend, was quite a sideshow. A guy with one missing eye claimed God gave him the ability to see through his eye socket. He walked around the church holding open his eye socket for all to see. Then, he blindfolded his good eye and asked people for items to read. Which he did. It was only when he started walking into the congregation and laying hands on people, that I quickly feigned sickness and sat in the car.

Actually my first intention was to run screaming as far away as I could get. I vowed to never get talked into going to church with my friend again.

A-B-C..... :evilgrin:

No, I'm not explaining



means they've been filled with the holy ghost and are now talking in the language of God....so to speak


BUT... they are really practicing for next Saturday's auction...

mass hysteria is fascinating....what people will do when every other avenue of creative expression is repressed. Sad, actually.

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nothing more than a form of trance, which is what occurs in voodoo and other popularized religions when people become emotionally overwrought.