- Joined
- Jan 15, 2006
- Posts
- 122,824
- Reaction score
- 4,067
- Points
- 113
Re: Funny anti-religious Internet pics
You have no idea just how accurate the "telephone game" is as a description of what passes for "teaching" in many so-called non-denominational churches, especially the big ones. Without naming names... I visited one and learned that the structure for teaching is absolutely like "telephone": pastor gives assistant pastors a "teaching", assistants pass it to the elders, elders pass it to teachers, teachers pass it to group leaders. And at every step it's filtered as described by Simon and Garfunkel: "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest".
I learned from a Lutheran pastor, Fr. Evanson, that whenever you study a passage or section, pay the most attention to what you don't want to hear -- because you'll have little trouble remembering the parts you already like.
So it's no surprise that many discussions between Christians look like this:
or that they think of their Bible as this:
Well, in his last post/s he was just exposing the logic of Christian theology. In other words, he was reminding everybody of the original message of the Christian Chinese whispers/telephone game.
You have no idea just how accurate the "telephone game" is as a description of what passes for "teaching" in many so-called non-denominational churches, especially the big ones. Without naming names... I visited one and learned that the structure for teaching is absolutely like "telephone": pastor gives assistant pastors a "teaching", assistants pass it to the elders, elders pass it to teachers, teachers pass it to group leaders. And at every step it's filtered as described by Simon and Garfunkel: "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest".
I learned from a Lutheran pastor, Fr. Evanson, that whenever you study a passage or section, pay the most attention to what you don't want to hear -- because you'll have little trouble remembering the parts you already like.
So it's no surprise that many discussions between Christians look like this:
or that they think of their Bible as this:

