Religious pet peeves?

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What are some of your pet peeves in the religious realm?

I believe my main one would be when preachers use the word amen in the form of a question. Evangelists are pretty bad about it, but missionaries are the worst!

And stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down......
 
One thing that really used to bug me, back in my hobo days, at homeless shelters, most of the preachers, when giving an invitation at the end of the sermon, would say that you could walk out that door and be run over by a bus. Statistically you're more likely to be killed by a stray bullet than be run over by a bus, so why did they always use that as an example?
 
Three pet peeves regarding the Lord's Supper:

The instruction to "examine yourselves to see if you have any unconfessed sin" before taking the Lord's supper.

The "synchronized swimming" way of eating the cracker, drinking the grape juice.

The fact that it's a cracker and grape juice. 
 
Saying "In the Greek it says...."  or this should be translated blah, blah, blah.  They might as well say.  "You people are so stupid that you need me to tell you what the Bible says because even though you have an English Bible it needs corrected."
 
Calling the song leader a worship leader.  I need that bald headed man with a goatee to worship God? 
 
being as no translation is perfect, all of them need corrected at one time or another, so appealing to the Greek and Hebrew originals doesn't bother me in the least.
 
I don't care for the worship terms myself. Praise and worship, worship service, worship leader/pastor. I guess I'm old fashioned.
 
Great congregational singing followed by an excellent special then to kill it all and take your mind and heart off of God - The Handshaking - then followed by finding the hand sanitizer.
 
Bro Blue said:
I don't care for the worship terms myself. Praise and worship, worship service, worship leader/pastor. I guess I'm old fashioned.
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Personally don't have as much a problem with those terms as I do "Reverend".
 
wheatpenny said:
being as no translation is perfect, all of them need corrected at one time or another, so appealing to the Greek and Hebrew originals doesn't bother me in the least.
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It can be very useful unless the appeal (usually to the Greek) is based on a logical fallacy.  For example -- The Greek word for "works" in this verse is "energeo," which is where we get our word "energy".  Therefore the verse "It is God who works in you" means "It is God who energizes you". 

The "dynamite" one is also a pet peeve.
 
Mathew Ward said:
Teaching the traditions of men as the Word of God...like KJVOism
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And pants on womins!!!! ;D
 
wheatpenny said:
being as no translation is perfect, all of them need corrected at one time or another, so appealing to the Greek and Hebrew originals doesn't bother me in the least.
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yea but how do you know if they are correct or not?  :P
 
I really don't care what women wear but sometimes the lack thereof or the tightness thereof has caused eyes to wander.  "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" 
 
Mathew Ward said:
T-Bone said:
And pants on womins!!!! ;D
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It's all them NIV totin', pant wearin' feminazi's  that are ruining Christianity today  ;D
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Can I get an "Amen" or is it "O-me"? :)
 
Ironman said:
I really don't care what women wear but sometimes the lack thereof or the tightness thereof has caused eyes to wander.  "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
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Well then maybe you need to do what the Bible says and stop blaming the womins...just gouge your eye out! 8)
 
Asking for an amen all the time just seems like the preacher has any confidence in the people to ' get' anything without them prompting. Plus, it's just plain annoying!
 
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