[Arkinsaw]

This is part of the reason I'm no longer a Methodist.

[LibKill]

This is idiotic. Smashing a plate proves nothing.

[Paul Atreides]

Fitting that they should be using crockery. This whole notion is a crock.

[Dakota gal in Seattle]

This just HAS to be the funniest thing I've read in a very long time! Around my relatives, a iron skillet - when banged real hard on the stove - had every man running for cover.

[Clifdo]

Boy, I have heard of stupid things, but this takes the prize for stupidity. Love, Do

[crystalk]

I always thought the Methodists had degenerated into left-wing, lesbian-ordaining CRACKPOTS, and this proves it.

[mercy]

The Wesleys must be petitioning God for a separate section in heaven.

[AppyPappy]

"She was going to make me a pot"....Animal House.

[Liberty Ship]

Boy. Hillary was way ahead of her time when she was first lady of Arkansas!

[Palladin]

Unbelievable! Don't these dingbats realize that it's usually MEN who are on the receiving end of the flying crockery?

[BnBlFlag]

What a crock!!!!!!!!!

[Graewoulf]

"The Methodist Church" -- one church in one town, or the National HQ? What is the originating site from your article?

I see UK as the National source of "the media" article. Does that mean the request to smash applies to the UK , the USA or both?

How do we know that this is not a hoax story?

[Unam Sanctam]

This is just the left wing encouraging feelings of violence and hatred. It seems similar to Cultural Revolution "struggle sessions" or the Shi'ites working themselves into a frenzy over the martyrdom of Hassan and Hussein or the Al Qaedaites working themselves up into a frenzy of righteous indignation against the infidel so as to go off to violent holy war. I see nothing Christ-like in this bit of agitprop.

[RLK]

Another case of symbolism and emotional expression over substance in the childlike mind.

[LarryLied]

This is a slippery-slope. First they smash crockery and before you know it, Methodist women are crashing 757's into skyscrapers.

[tacticalogic]

Hey, it beats handling snakes and drinking rat poison!

[BunnySlippers]

Sounds like some sort of "primal scream" therapy. Creepy.

[daves_brother]

The minister will lead a prayer, saying: "We stand in solidarity with women and all victims of violence who are piecing their lives together."

Key buzzwords:

• solidarity
• victims
• others?

[daves_brother]

The order of service, called Soaring Wings and Strengthened Dreams, also includes the testimony of a Baptist minister's wife who was beaten after church for serving Angel Delight at Sunday lunch.

Violence against anyone in most circumstances is a serious concern, but I just couldn't help but think that I was glad, for this woman's sake, that she didn't serve Devil's Food Cake.

[Peter Libra]

I remember going away from the bombing in the London area in the war. I went to a tiny village in Yorkshire. I had to attend a Methodist chapel-it did me no harm. The sermon was pretty hard to get through and one could try to suck on sweet(candy) unobserved to kill the time. Then these farming area folk would sing with gusto their own favourite hymn -"We plow the fields and scatter, the good seed on the land....." My first prize for attendance was a boys book on war adventure. "A Captain of the Irregulars" by G.A. Henty. I can see these solid Yorkshire folk now,in memory.

O tempora O mores!