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.

I don’t like the idea of a pentecostal preacher promoting his church with social media by posting the altar show. It is disrespectful.

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.

And with that you get videos like this:

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.

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.