Re:You heretics (Score 1)

My (undisclosed) church is having a party tomorrow as well, and some football game may coincidentally be on at the same time. The idea behind such a party, at least at my church, is to build community and to bring people who aren't Christians in and show them that bible geeks actually do know how to have fun.

From our theological standpoint (Reformed/Protestant), having a party in a church building is not blasphemous because there's nothing inherently special about a pile of bricks. Indeed the Old Testament (for those of you who went to public school, after the big bang and evolution but before Jesus) says that God had the Jews set up the temple and respect it as a special place. After Jesus, however, the temple was destroyed, and the followers of Christ themselves now make up the "church" (1 Peter 2:1-5, also 1 Corinthians 3:16).

Whether you believe Christianity is a sack of lies or not, these are the reasons that a church needn't be stodgy and religious about doing something fun. And, honestly, isn't this better than churches condescendingly protesting, thinking people are listening? After all, America could use a break, or even a complete change... http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=4183635&page=1