Ceremony is a kind of beauty. Beauty can be silly, too, but not ceremony.
Yeah- I guess so. Ceremony can be beautiful. BUT when men create a ceremony and assign it to God, when God did not create it.. the ceremony becomes offensive.
That is the lesson of the Bible.
They can have their organization, sure- and all the ceremony they want-but it isn’t about God.
The Catholics I know are making jokes about this- and talking about drinking games..
I think that in this smokey thing, it is sad- that there is no reference, reverence or love for our Lord, Jesus the Christ- who died for us.
In Exodus the children of God followed the Holy Spirit, a pillar of smoke- so this idea of man made smoke , to communicate a man made decision, is blasphemous to me.