legislators pray in tongues

[Aletheia]

[MonarchMom]

This should be National news. Voters should know just where our government is heading if we continue to let personal religious beliefs determine our laws.

[mommy_jules]

https://religionnews.com/2024/04/04/the ... tionalism/

ETA:

Charismatic Christians are those who are trying to restore the more supernatural dimensions of early Christianity — speaking in tongues, performing miracles and believing in modern prophecies. This is the world of next-gen televangelism, ecstatic megachurches and itinerant prophets. Nondenominational charismatics are the energetic, tech-savvy, insurgent populists of American Christianity. Many of these nondenominational charismatics eagerly embraced the Reconstructionists’ dominion ideas (if not their formal Calvinism), giving rise to the populist charismatic style of Christian supremacy. At the front of this pack is a pastor (sometimes referred to as prophet) named Lance Wallnau, who has taken some of these dominion theology ideas and rebranded them as a prophecy called the Seven Mountain Mandate.

[AZOldGal66]

Speaking in Tongues is an old religious practice that is believed to be several things: That it's a conversation not with those praying around you but with God directly. That it's the Holy Spirit speaking through the one speaking this old world language. Or that it's simply an ability to communicate God's words.

It can almost be frightening to those who witness it for the first time.

But prayer itself is not unusual or alarming on a Congressional floor.

[AZOldGal66]

I personally find this interesting.....

"Speaking In Tongues: The Language And Practice Of Glossolalia" https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/spea ... lossolalia

[Della]

These people are speaking gibberish. None of them understand the other.

[Aletheia]

These people are speaking gibberish. None of them understand the other.

RIchard Feynman didn't know Italian. But he did listen to radio broadcasts in Italian as a child, and could copy the rhythms and intonation of impassioned Italian speech.

Later, when an adult, he had cause to make a speech in this pseudo Italian. Many of the listeners, who themselves did know Italian, would later swear that they hadn't quite been able to make out the words, but were sure he was speaking their language.

The mind fills in the blanks.

[Della]

These people are speaking gibberish. None of them understand the other.

RIchard Feynman didn't know Italian. But he did listen to radio broadcasts in Italian as a child, and could copy the rhythms and intonation of impassioned Italian speech.

Later, when an adult, he had cause to make a speech in this pseudo Italian. Many of the listeners, who themselves did know Italian, would later swear that they hadn't quite been able to make out the words, but were sure he was speaking their language.

The mind fills in the blanks.

I grew up listening to my father's side of the family speaking Arabic. I only remember a few phrases, but I can hear a conversation and understand parts.

I don't see them the same. And believe me, I've been in a number of charismatic churches. It's nothing more than extreme emotions.

Besides, according to the Bible, those things have passed away.

[WellPreserved]

It always sounds like Gregorian chanting to me. That and a scene from 70s movies like the Omen or Exorcist.

[Della]

It always sounds like Gregorian chanting to me. That and a scene from 70s movies like the Omen or Exorcist.

You have the chanting and I keep thinking about Kenneth Copeland, lol.