Face Palming Christianity But Never Walking AwayTumblr (3.0; @cultureversuschristian)http://cultureversuschristian.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly9thq9jGd1r4561ho1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>What more can you ask for? Nice ad! via - Imgur</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/16366686594http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/16366686594Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:39:26 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly9b1oB0Eh1r4561ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I really wish the church would stay out of our bedrooms.</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/16349566950http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/16349566950Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:01:00 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly1plr1CjB1r4561ho1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Well played…</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/16112643046http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/16112643046Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:34:39 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxya67J1g31r4561ho1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.” - Imgur</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/16009728403http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/16009728403Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:08:31 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx8se5jY7f1r4561ho1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I searched “Deer Lord” on Google. I wasn’t disappointed. </p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/15257167836http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/15257167836Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:28 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lugf2xL6zW1r4561ho1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>No one ever reads the fine print - Imgur</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12602149254http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12602149254Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:56:57 -0500photoschristianhumor<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lugbmybXnx1r4561ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Have you found Jesus?</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12600302682http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12600302682Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:42:34 -0500photos“When it comes to bulls**t, big-time, major league bulls**t, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bulls**t story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man - living in the sky - who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ‘til the end of time … But he loves you, and he needs money!”<br/><br/> - <em>George Carlin</em>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12597850131http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12597850131Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:36:28 -0500religionwords<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lubknk61gw1r4561ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Rick Rolling Jesus FTW</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12494855699http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12494855699Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:09:20 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lub8enWSMm1r4561ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>i see what you did there Colbert. - Imgur</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12481540414http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12481540414Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:44:47 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltzm8tZLHu1r4561ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Saw this online.  What do you think?</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12197790918http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/12197790918Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:12:29 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltd8r56kn51r4561ho1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>It feels like we’re saying this sometimes.</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11692178536http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11692178536Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:13:53 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltc2agbrCQ1r4561ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Behold, the angel came to him. - Imgur</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11667344391http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11667344391Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:56:39 -0400<p>Last year my wife and I attended a local church to satisfy a neighbor who was concerned for our soul. Nevermind that I had told him about my life filled with ministry; he felt that since my church didn’t meet on Sunday I should go to his. Or it didn’t count.</p> <p>He is a nice old man so we went to see him sing in the Christmas choir. This church is a church I would have been happy with years ago, but these days the place seems a little to trendy. It is like they read a church growth manual and are following it to the letter.  The folks there are great and pastor is nice, but the place isn’t for me.</p> <p>But these church leaders are like the guy who won’t take no for an answer.  As normal, we filled out an information card.  Now we get invitations to special events and other things.</p> <p>The problem I have; the place where they went out of control is adding us to their automated invitation phone calls.  They have a special event, we get a phone. At 10:00pm.</p> <p>I understand keeping people informed, but this is intrusive. You hate to call some nice folks and ask them to remove you from a call list. They’re just working for Jesus and such.</p> <p>The best way to handle this is to allow people to choose what kind of messages we receive. Facebook Fan Pages, Twitter, Newsletters are just fine. They are passive. I can easily ignore them if they get intrusive. But phone calls, which I rarely take from people I like at late hours.  Entirely too much. So if you ever think of doing this…DON’T! It is not a good idea.  It will actually sour someone and they will not want to be a part.</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11594746514http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11594746514Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:11:54 -0400churchchristianpromotionchurch growthwords<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/11575914394/tumblr_lt815rIE7d1r4561h&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>Occupying Wall St. and  Posting Pentecostals, Recorded October 14, 2011. We apologies for the constant reminder that this is a Ustream Producer demonstration. We were trying something new.</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11575914394http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11575914394Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:41:00 -0400podcastpentecostaloccupy wall streat<p>I don’t like the idea of a pentecostal preacher promoting his church with social media by posting the altar show. It is disrespectful.</p> <p>Many readers will think the videos we find online are hilarious, ridiculous, or creepy.  I don’t care about that so much. Pentecostalism works for some people and good for them. The problem comes when these folks are having a very intimate moment in the best way they understand it with God and some jerk is shoving a camera in their face. That would be enough to irritate most people.However, in the pentecostal world, it seems this would be even worse because the nature of what they are doing is full of snot, tears, running make-up, sweat, falling down. Embarrasing moments if they are taken out of context.</p> <p>And with that you get videos like this:</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/07cmMhQxjfg" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe></p> <p>Some very funny person put this together with video from a pentecostal service. I don’t blame the person; penetecostals do hilarious stuff. The people I blame for this are those who record it and post it to begin with.  These are church members, pastors, and staff that have the audacity to point a camera and someone having a moment and exploiting it to promote their church or ministry.</p> <p>A pastor friend of mine did this earlier today. I felt bad for the people. It isn’t the thing you want floating around the internet out of context.</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11362112781http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11362112781Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:08:26 -0400wordspentecostal<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lspvvvrnqA1r4561ho1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>An interesting pieces of vinyl found in an antique store.</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11155290520http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11155290520Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:31:07 -0400<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/11148412312/tumblr_lspnffuTxA1r4561h&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>Our first podcast in a while, and we’re rusty. Hear about where we’ve been, guilt ridden worship music, the problem with inclusivity, holding a community together, and your personal relationship with Jesus and talking to yourself.</p>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11148412312http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11148412312Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:28:00 -0400podcast““Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.””<br/><br/> - <em>Steve Jobs (via <a href="http://blua.tumblr.com/">blua</a>)</em>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11125109586http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11125109586Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:59:48 -0400steve jobs““I have NO tolerance for assholes of any belief system…””<br/><br/> - <em>@ericbrooklyn </em>http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11041328809http://cultureversuschristian.com/post/11041328809Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:30:00 -0400words