A place to snark and vent about CoC doctrine and/or our experiences in the CoC. This is a place for SUPPORT and AGREEMENT only, not a place to tell someone their experience and feelings are wrong, or why we disagree with them.
margin overa wrote:And if usin' a pitch fork is wrong, I don't wanna be right!
Did the cofc lady of legend who demolished the piano use a pitchfork? Whatever
it was (mallet, shovel, hammer) she had no scriptural authority to do it.
margin overa wrote:And if usin' a pitch fork is wrong, I don't wanna be right!
Did the cofc lady of legend who demolished the piano use a pitchfork? Whatever
it was (mallet, shovel, hammer) she had no scriptural authority to do it.
She used an ax Ivyrose. An ax.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.----Karl Marx
I think the legend got its start from an incident that happened back in the 1800s. It seems that a CoC in Kentucky tried to introduce a melodeon in their worship service, due to what was described as "deplorable singing". One of the elders was strongly against the instrument, so one Saturday night he and his slave removed the melodeon from the church building. They then proceeded to chop the melodeon to pieces on the front lawn of the church building and left it there for everyone to see on Sunday morning.
According to the story, a second melodeon was then introduced in another attempt to help improve the terrible singing. However, the same elder reportedly removed (stole) the melodeon from the church building one night and hid it in his barn. This second melodeon was discovered hidden in the elder's barn some years later by some folks who were cleaning it out after the elder had died.
"If I had to define my own theme, it would be that of a person who absorbed some of the worst the church has to offer, yet still landed in the loving arms of God." (From the book 'Soul Survivor' by Philip Yancy)
