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Originally Posted by timlan2057
Remember in the late seventies when "granny" dresses with their mid-calf length came into style?
This was when mini-skirts went out.
The first thing as an enthusiastic young pentecostal convert that I questioned in the back of my mind about these "standards" was this:
I thought, well fine, now the girls can wear what's in style and still be "holy."
I was rather taken aback when the granny dresses were preached against for being "worldly fashion."
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As a young person, I always had a problem with the "unwritten" rules.
For instance, it was just fine to have the latest model of automobile, with all the bells and whistles, it was just fine to wear fancy, expensive suits with silk ties, it was just fine for the women to dress up like they were going to the Queen's ball, you could live in a fancy house, but yet you couldn't wear a wedding ring!
I've never quite understood why our Articles of Faith have absolutely NO wording about facial hair, but if a man grew a mustache, he was backslidden. Unless, of course, it was Christmas/Easter play time, and the beard and mustache were fake. If it's a sin, isn't it a sin to fake it too?
I couldn't understand why we couldn't have TV or go to the "picture show", but it was ok to bring a 16mm projector into the church and show the "End Time" movies.
Couldn't understand why it was wrong to play sports in school, but it was fine to get the whole church group together to fight it out on the football field on a Sunday afternoon. Of course, some of our best services on a Sunday night were caused by the young men repenting for beating the tar out of each other and cussing on the field that afternoon!
In case any hasn't noticed, one of my hobby horses is the propogation of incosistencies in the way we were raised, and I apologize if I'm being a "Bore", lol. (For those of you who read the UPCI Needs a Healer thread, you'll know what I reference)
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