[roamer_1]

God has very little to do with it; I’ve attended these demonstrations. Sick.

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IMHO, you are painting with a very broad brush.

[John Leland 1789]

Have you ever heard liturgical types talk with very deep emotion when describing rituals and rites and sacraments, and images and statues, and all the rest? These threads contain such.

But when people walk with God, and His presence (Remember people talking His real presence being in some elements having to do with a ritual?) is manifested in their worship, all of a sudden it is emotionalism, psychology, sickness, and so forth. I am avoiding direct answers to those who have, evidently, narrow experiences.

God made man to be emotional — feeling. There is even a “feeling after God” that God Himself wants to take place in man (Acts 17:27; etc.).

We marry with great emotion, we bear children with great emotion, we strive to raise them correctly with great emotional stresses, we even bury some of them, along with our sick and elderly. We celebrate things common to most men with emotion.

But let us have emotion with the REAL PRESENCE of God in our daily walk with Him and it becomes mere emotionalISM, psychological veneer, mental sickness and the rest, in the view of some religionists. We would be denied any closeness to God unless we travel through their system.

[Judith Anne]

IMHO, you are painting with a very broad brush.

Yes, it's more efficient. Like the protties who insist that no matter what we say, it LOOKS LIKE Catholics worship Mary. I thank them for showing me the technique.

[Quix]

Blackwashing with big buckets of black paint . . . is a bit different than painting with a broad brush.

I wonder if we’ll see the AUTHORIZED BLACKWASHING RITUAL arise in due course.

Or, perhaps, the AUTHORIZED BLACK PAINT THROWING DANCE.