Posted on 04/24/2015 2:03:56 AM PDT by markomalley
A Nashville swingers club has undergone a conversion — it says it's now a church — in order to win city approval so it can open next to a Christian school.
The story began last fall, when a fixture in downtown Nashville called The Social Club sold its building and purchased a new one in a run-down office park several miles to the east.
The new building is geographically isolated at the end of a dead-end street, but it is near the back of Goodpasture Christian School, a large private school serving pre-school through high school children.
It might have been years before school officials and parents learned what was going on inside The Social Club — its website says it is "a private club for the enjoyment of both men and women ... to engage in any sexual activity" — if someone had not sent anonymous letters to the school president and the local councilwoman. Both say the person who tipped them off claimed to be a concerned club member, although they don't know that for sure.
Parents and religious leaders were called on to pack the Metro Nashville Council chambers to support a zoning change to prevent the club from opening. That's when the club, which had spent $750,000 on the building and begun renovations, suddenly transformed into a church.
The United Fellowship Center's plans are nearly identical to those of The Social Club but with some different labels. The dance floor has become the sanctuary. Two rooms labeled "dungeon" are now "choir" and "handbells." Forty-nine small, private rooms remain, but most of them have become prayer rooms.
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Historically, the Christian church replaced many places that were used for sinful purposes.
But is this a case of a pagan temple being converted into a Christian church? Or is this the case of a pagan for-profit business being converted into a hedonistic pagan temple?
Does it matter? Is God’s shortened where there are some things He cannot do?
You're kidding, right?
Is God’s shortened where there are some things He cannot do?
Obviously not, but not sure what that has to do with this article.
Your first question to my post does imply that it does matter, in your mind, what the previous building was used for. Tho does imply a limitation in your as to what God can do.
Which answers your second question.
Not at all. It matters to me what the building is currently being used for under the pretext of being a "church".
I would think that one with a modicum of reading comprehension would have gathered that from the article.
After all, how many churches publish advance notices saying: it will be honoring all yearly subscribers and members of The Social Club. The flyer for the United Fellowship Center said men are charged $50 and women $20.
And how many Christian Churches say that “we are children of the same universe,” where everyone is welcome, including Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, agnostics, pagans and wiccans.
You're probably right, maybe I am being a bit too parochial here.
My position here is, of course, dependent on it being used for what they say it will be used for and not just a cover for other purposes.
If it’s a cover for a sexual club, than I wouldn’t give the the right to do that, of course. But if its really going to be used for a church, that’s where my answer comes in.
yeah, you’re badly missing the point here. It’s not REALLY becoming a church. It’s still going to be a sex club, but they’re just going to CALL it a church in order to beat the zoning law.
Sorta like a death cult calling itself a religion in order to justify lopping off the heads of non-members.
This...in the Bible Belt??
This so called club was supposedly downtown around the 700 block of Division Street. Note that is near the biggest discount booze store in TN and that area in business and a large construction zone at present. This so called club was supposed moved north out of town towards Rivergate Mall in Madison, TN. Madison has gone downhill as it is largely Mexican now. I did not know the illegals were into this.
But is this a case of a pagan temple being converted into a Christian church? Or is this the case of a pagan for-profit business being converted into a hedonistic pagan temple?
My guess is that they're attempting to secure 501(c)3 status, so as to gain a tax dodge, and possibly some level of legal status as clergy for future lawsuits. It's how the sex-and-drugs "Church of the SubGenius" got started in Dallas TX.
The proximity of the "Social Club" to the school reminds me, unfortunately, of Colorado's "naked jogging priest, whose antics took him past nearly two dozen homes, past two public schools and a preschool, and around one the school's athletic field.
If the "Social Club" can keep their antics inside the building, they might stay out of legal trouble. But if they take it outside, even accidentally, I don't think their legal status is going to help them.
The Social Club should be named ‘The Non Church of Pole Dancers’. Or maybe they should tell the city it is a mosque. Both a mosque and a strip club are unholy places.
“My guess is that they’re attempting to secure 501(c)3 status, so as to gain a tax dodge, and possibly some level of legal status as clergy for future lawsuits. It’s how the sex-and-drugs “Church of the SubGenius” got started in Dallas TX.”
I think the pimp/owner was probably “ordained” through the so-called “Universal Life Church” (http://www.ulc.org/), one of those online “ordination” mills that give authorization for anybody to officiate at a “wedding.”
This has been tried before in other places across the country at various times, I don’t think its ever been successful.
Temple prostitutes, just like in the bible.
The Parthenon was originally a pagan temple, but later became a Christian church. During the Ottoman period I think for a time it may have served as the harem of the Turkish governor (before it was blown up by the Venetians in 1687).
The church of Baal and Istar, run by the highest priestess Jezebel. She causes Israel to eat at the table (altar) of the other two, high gods. Thereon they share food with these entities, on their holidays. Come away from all of it, my people.
They could say its an LGBT club against bullying. The school would welcome them.
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