Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Early Tongues
Yes, it is very obvious that persons who speak in tongues early in life have a definite advantage in the Pentecostal realm, especially if said early experience is recorded somewhere in great-grandmother's diary. So we see that my uncle early in life spoke in tongues and yet later in life became a disaster when he dumped his wife, married one of those Foursquare witches, left his own two daughters to wallow in stupid white-trash ignorance and spends most of the rest of his life with the Foursquare family that is not really his own except through divorce. Still, he spoke in tongues early in life so obviously he stands to inherit a bundle of Pentecostal cash perhaps and a life on easy street? No, obviously we see from the example of my own aunts and uncles that speaking in tongues early in life does not guarantee a stellar life to come. In fact, some people just never think about it again and forget almost everything they were ever taught in Sunday School, just like some Baptists that I can think of who believe that once saved always saved. So it's OK for the Baptists to live like hell on earth because they have a guaranteed ticket to heaven anyway but they really put us on a huge guilt trip because they were expecting something else. And the same to you Baptists, thanks anyway. So obviously these matters are often discussed among various Christian groups. Anyway, it it is better to speak in tongues early in life than to spend most of junior high camp evenings after chapel hanging out at the Pinecrest snack bar with trashy dancers Debbie Lange and Sherri Turnbull, but, anyway, it does not necessarily mean that you are going to win the lottery later either.