Roll Call....

[BrotherEastman]

Originally Posted by OP_Carl

If this is your truth, I feel sorry for you. Even though I have attended UPC churches where facial hair was proscribed in the by-laws and written platform standards, and observed the "carrot and cudgel" approach to get a new convert to shave his beard (he couldn't be an usher until he complied), every pastor I have discussed this with has explained that it is cultural; beards are biblical; and it may change in the future.

I sincerely doubt that a mass exodus would occur over preserving a peculiarity that is an indirect consequence of a strict yet subjective interpretation of one scripture, when derivation of principle from a multitude of other scriptures yields the opposite conclusion. Your "movement" would consist of the illiterate and the stubborn.

One could plausibly make the argument that any groundswell of unswerving devotion that exists for this rule has probably already left the building and is on the bus for Tulsa.

But if it makes you, as a facial-hair-cultivator, feel more daring, dashing, swashbuckling, and cutting-edge to think this, go right ahead.

I still say your a moderate conservative conservative. LOL!