"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 12/23/2014 9:03 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> "Bruce" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:24:00 -0800, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> behavior. Just doing the opposite. Such as not drinking alcohol,
>>>> eating
>>>> meat, listening to rock and roll music, etc.
>>>
>>> Are you saying there's a church that tells the flock to drink alcohol?
>>> And then the flock leaves the church and doesn't?
>>
>> I said that they said *not* to drink. But the people do drink.
>
> I had a friend who was a home economics teacher. She was raised Catholic
> (can't say she was devout). The only decent paying teaching job she could
> get was at a private Baptist school in Mississippi. She had to sign a
> paper stating she wouldn't drink, smoke or *dance* before they would
> employ her.
>
> This was at least thirty years ago. She was 25 years old and she
> certainly *was* out drinking and dancing. She didn't expect to run into
> the older parents of her students (or faculty!) from the school in a club
> . Of course she did. Hypocrites.
>
> She signed that piece of paper to get a job. They actually pretended they
> followed all those rules, putting on a face for the community.

My parents did that weekly at our church in Wichita. My dad smoked. My mom
was always trying to smoke but just couldn't do it. They drank. They went
out dancing and I took dance lessons. So for me? Religion made no sense.