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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
Wow, I guess these girls went to a school for the blind?
I cannot figure out how rolling up a long dress can look acceptable to the teenage population of a high school or Jr High. I mean, come on, these girls must of had to of rolled 15 to 16 inches of material under the dress (that is if they had those dresses down to their ankles). Isn't that a little odd just to show off their knee caps to the boys? I think they must of repelled more than they attracted.
Come to think of it, didn't it look kind of baggy? Like they were wearing patato sacks around their waste? Didn't teachers call home and try to find out why these children were commiting crimes against fashion?
Whatever.
Every religion has young people who are not into the religion, and that happens. Faith cannot be forced, and therefore if a Muslim girl doeesn't want to wear her hajib, or Jewish boy his kipa, then there is very little the parents can do about it. Children adopt the traditions of parents because of the parents true devotion to them. The parents showed love, true love of those traditions to their children. Those traditions were pleasant and not a burden for the children, and therefore the children kept those traditions for the rest of their lives. When traditions are made to be as hard to swallow as castor oil, then the child will abandon them as soon as possible.
In Jesus name
Brother Benincasa
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I didn't say my sisters were continuously bad. LOL!!!! It did happen a few times, though, because I heard them talk about it (I wasn't even born back then). Anyway, the skirts weren't very long--it was in the late 60's, and pretty much everything was short. I've seen lots of pictures of conservative church women from back then with skirts just to their knees. So I'm sure they didn't have to roll them up very far....
As for the rest of your comments...my sisters didn't grow up in a godly home. My Dad didn't get into church until he was 39 years old. HE was brought up in an Apostolic home, and completely abandoned everything as a teenager. He wanted nothing to do with church for a very long time. Their influences came mainly from my grandparents who pastored in SE Missouri, and my Grandma would take my sisters to church as much as possible. (As well as to campmeetings, and other functions) My Grandma also made sure that my oldest sister had nice dresses and suits to wear to church, because she started singing and playing the piano at a young age, so she was often up front.
Really, EB, I was just making a funny comment. Teenagers do silly things, and it's usually best to take it with a grain of salt. I certainly wasn't intending to make my sisters look bad. All of them have remained in church, and remained involved in ministry of some sort throughout the years, which is a miracle considering the type of home they came from. I had a totally different experience, because I was born after my Dad came back to God--and my Mom converted from being a "hard-shell" Baptist to Apostolic.
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