Cool!! I am so there!
Maybe he doesn’t have bigger things on his mind. Maybe he is distracted by teenagers dancing and fornicating. Maybe this is the celestial version of Skinemax and that’s why he hasn’t gotten around to solving the problems in the Middle East, Iraq, and the Darfur region. He’s going to get around to it, just as soon as he has a chance. Just like I’m going to get around to straightening my room. Someday.
My high school (the one where I spent my junior and senior years, anyway!) and college had this attitude about dancing – David Lipscomb High School and College in Nashville, Tennessee. I attended the high school from 1977 to 1979 (the prime disco years!) and the college from 1979 to 1983. They are associated with the Church of Christ. It was taught that dancing would almost inevitably lead to sexual passion, which was not a good thing unless you were married!
It’s a good thing we have these handy parenthetical phrases from God to explain the true meaning of his Word.
While I think the website is extremely silly, I also think that anyone who claims that dancing doesn’t lead to sexual passion probably isn’t doing it right 
I love the coined word: prommery. I never saw it before and it just works so well. Is it your invention or did you see it somewhere?
Jim
That web site could have been written by my parents, as far as the sentiment goes. It’s so far out there that it looks like a spoof, but probably isn’t. Thank Og that most teenagers have more sense than the web site author, go to their prom and have a good time.
Might even include some fun dancing and sex. The way Og intended (hey, in my church, Og is made in MY image, and I make the rules!).
I hope Hypno-Toad is a boy, because I am going to marry him.
(Don’t tell Dave)
This:
combined with this:
makes it sound, to me, like the author thinks that people shouldn’t date at all; just go straight from introductions to marriage. After all, if you’re dating with the intention to marry (which is clearly the only kind of dating God condones :rolleyes: ), then I should certainly say that your intentions are more than “just to be friendly for the evening”!
Mine, all mine. (I’m notorious for transforming words from one part of speech to another.)
But don’t they discourage everyone from dancing? I don’t think that even married couples are exempt from that ridiculous rule.
If you grow up learning that dancing is wrong at all (unmarried) times, it is difficult to change your moral outlook if/when you get married.
So, no, in my parents’ religion, dancing was not expected or encouraged for married couples. How would they know how to dance if they weren’t allowed to learn? Ever try to teach an adult something new that they have been avoiding for all their life so far?
I have an urge to find an excuse to use it. To bad it is the wrong season for Prommery. 
Exactly. My parents said they didn’t “date”, they just accompanied each other to events.
Events like church and Jesus rallies.
Oh, lest I forget, they walked their dogs together. How romantic. :rolleyes:
Hey, I heard second hand that there are people out there calling themselves Apostolics who do just that. “Hi, my name is <fill in blank> and I have heard that you are a charming person, would you be interested in dating for the purpose of pursuing marrage?”
“I have saved my Haggen Daz just for you.”
We do when we’re searching for porn. Other than that, I got nothing.
A whole page and not ONE “Chick Tract” joke?
C’mon…
Well, once you are married, sexual passion between husband and wife is okay, so the prohibition would be moot at that point. However, the dancing would have to be practiced solely within the confines of the married couple’s home, never in a public place, lest by their wild gyrations they stimulate some unmarried onlookers to give into their base desires and practice actual copulation, which is expressly forbidden and will lead to eternal damnation!
I hope I am making myself clear on this! Dancing = Lust = Sex = Damnation!
Bad, bad, bad! Exceptin’, of course, married folk, but only in private!
Yep, “dating” as we understand it is frowned upon. A young couple should never be alone together. The only “dating” allowed was to agree to meet at church dinners or youth group outings. Through this decent association, we were assured, we would start feeling God leading us toward a certain person.
The texts we used at the Christian school had a sort of comic strip in every section. It featured the same group of kids (who had names like Sarah Goodwill and John Purelove) throughout, from kindergarten to graduation. I guess the intention was that we “grew up” along with the kids and learned from their “problems.” In reality, the stip was so bland and the sins of these cartoon saints so incredibly minor that it became comic gold.*
Anyway, in the very last text before graduation, one of the girls in the comic strip was shown praying. “God, I feel you telling me I should marry Billy and join him on his missionary trip.” I remember being struck by it because there wasn’t even a hint of romantic interest up 'til that point.
- My all-time favorite strip was thus: Sandy Lovingheart comes home and announces, “Ooh, it’s so cold out there. I’m FREEZING!” Her mother admonishes her for her untruthful exaggeration. The final scene in the strip shows Sandy kneeling by her bed, praying to God for forgiveness for lying.
No one in these stips ever faced anything approaching a real-world temptation. Theirs was a world free of sex, drugs and violence. Their “temptations” were things like not returning a borrowed item and refraining from getting irritated at younger siblings. It was like the Brady Bunch on traquilizers. (Even the “bad” kids were always portrayed wearing dress-code clothing.)
I’ll never forget going to Mass one day at an unfamiliar parish. There was this little old Italian priest with a very strong accent. In his homily he very carefully explained that it was every young person’s duty to date as many people as possible, so they would be sure to find the right person to marry.
StG
Really, what’s the point in a girl dating, when her father has pledged to “cover” her until she gets married (probably to someone he has chosen for her)?
(Sidenote on dating: I’ve explained to my daughters MHO that at least at the start, it’s as much to identify and weed out what they don’t want in a life partner as anything else. From what I’ve seen of their young men, they’ve done a pretty good job of culling already.)