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Pole dancing for Jesus in Texas?From CNN Houston affiliate KTRK In the quaint turn-of-the-century community called Old Town Spring, Texas, where Victorian style shops line the streets, one business stands out - pole fitness for Jesus. There's no preaching, just teaching. Set to Christian music, church-going women spin and slither around poles. But the instructor and the students say it's not about sex. "This is my second class," student Tiffany Booth said. For them, this is about getting closer to God. "God gives us these bodies and they are suppose to be our temples and we are suppose to take care of them and that's what we are doing," instructor Crystal Dean said Booth was raised in church. Now, the pole is her temple. Read the full story about the Christian pole dancing class at KTRK.com |
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I'm so embarrassed for these women. No wonder hardly anyone visits Old Town Spring anymore.
Freaks.
Just to clarify a point, these women clearly worship something different than the God I believe in.
To those condemning the pole dancers:
But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy sister, but observest not the pole that is in thine eye?
Christians already mostly vote Republican. How much closer to the influence of Satan can they get?
I can only hope Jesus will have mercy on your soul. How can you be so nasty with regards to your body (the temple of the holy spirit) and a dancing pole which encourages lust, permiscuity, and sin?
Wow, got to please Jesus. After all, he is the only thing saving you from his daddy's temper tantrum
Hallelujah! I can feel the spriit move!
Now there's a worship service I would attend religiously.
And I'll briing a thick stack of ones and fives for the offering.
Come on over and shake it for jesus, baby.
Make this naughty little christian solder stand at attention....LOL!
/facepalm
show me the male pole dancers and you'll have my attention.
and the stilletos are just so they can be closer to god? cmon...
In other news church donations are up although they are now entirely in grimy one dollar bills.
This is sooooo humiliating! I live in this town and this is NOT what we are about. This "store" will close after the media hype dies down. This is just another gimmick to make money. The rest of the shops in the area are not going to be happy about this.
Get off your high horse lady. Just as a heads up, the store will go away if there is no money coming in (because that's how a democratic/commecially driven society works) sorry to burst your bubble. The news is good advertisement... and who are you to question how someone comes to the lord. If it brings people closer to the religion then how can it be bad. I mean... I'm all about pole dancers with a heart of gold. In other news... America's prudish and Politically correct Society is what is driving us to be worse. Also, didn't the bible say to hate the sin not the sinner. STFU and GTFO and take your fail with you.
I completely agree. Old Town Spring is a nice place with respectable businesses.
The dancers need to take their poles to New Orleans, Las Vegas....or a bar.
Maybe they can rent space from Priests that like to molest and leave everyone else alone.
This STUDIO is a respectful business. The media hype was unwanted. And the "Pole FITNESS for Jesus" was to have people see the pole class as nothing more than for FITNESS, which is what this STUDIO IS about, not stripping. One Sunday a month a special FREE class is held for LADYS only who bring a church program in. The media COMPLETELY took EVERYTHING that was said out of context! Just about everything that was on the videos was twisted so that the MEDIA could boost ratings! The STUDIO has nothing to gain or LOOSE, think about it, it's FREE!! Everyone is so quick to judge, call names and question our belief in GOD and Jesus Christ. People are just so mean. Calling us fat and talking about or families and marriages and tattoos. Shame on ya'll, we at least aren't calling names and judging. And we are idiots and stupid, Really, I am working on my masters degree in forinsic science....How about them apples!? OH, and "not marriage material!" I've been with my husband for 10 years, FAITHFULLY! I know I have a few pounds to loose, thats why I'm taking POLE FITNESS classes to loose the extra weight from my last kid. I have never stripped nor will I ever, it's just not for me. All who want to judge, go right ahead, but you should step back and take a VERY good look at yourself first. And @ Priscilla, the shops in Old Town Spring should be working together to bring/keep business coming in, not forcing them out. Just for those who may still be wondering, yes I was on the videos, didn't speek but was there. God Bless, Yes I said it, GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
I am not a religious person, but I would go to a church that had pole dancers performing in front of the choir. It would have to be a Protestant Church though. Catholic music doesn"t have a good beat.
EWWWWWWW!!!!!! The Pole and religious music – just no.
Awesome, next time my wife busts me going to the strip club, I'm pulling out the Jesus card. Nice work Texas.
Now, if CNN would do an article on "Pole Dancing, Tea Bagging Christians" my day will be complete.
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I was taught to jugde not cause I will be judge the way I judge. God said to know his word. If it is his word that tells you to do this then leave it to him to help you get through this. Many blessing my friend.
If these gals want to learn pole dancing so they can please their husbands, who cares? If they need to connect it somehow to their Christian faith then so what. I have to admit that watching a pole dance while listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford sing "In the Sweet By and By" would be surreal but not without a unique charm. It sounds like a wholesome activity that they enjoy and that harms no one.
The pole is her temple alright!!
So what is next? Dancing with the snake in the name of Jesus. Sound good to me. Whatever.
They already have the snake dancing/worship in the hill country of Texas. It's insane to me, but they still do it.
That is so stupid.
"I do feel a spiritual connection whenever you have the music on and it's singing about lifting you up and being closer to God. You do feel that," she said.
Apostle Eric says; For your exercise yes, for Jesus no! This is not a contact point for faith. Neither were the pillars of the Temple to be used for pole dancing. Maybe that is why Eli’s two sons sinned with the women in the temple. Lol http://apostlestoday.net/
The Apostles' Creed 2011: (updated based on the studies of historians and theologians during the past 200 years)
I might believe in a god whose existence cannot be proven
and said god if he/she/it exists resides in an unproven,
human-created, spirit state of bliss called heaven.
I believe there was a 1st century CE, Jewish, simple,
preacher-man who was conceived by a Jewish carpenter
named Joseph living in Nazareth and born of a young Jewish
girl named Mary. (Some say he was a mamzer.)
Jesus was summarily crucified for being a temple rabble-rouser by
the Roman troops in Jerusalem serving under Pontius Pilate,
He was buried in an unmarked grave and still lies
a-mouldering in the ground somewhere outside of
Jerusalem.
Said Jesus' story was embellished and "mythicized" by
many semi-fiction writers. A bodily resurrection and
ascension stories were promulgated to compete with the
Caesar myths. Said stories were so popular that they
grew into a religion known today as Catholicism/Christianity
and featuring dark-age, daily wine to blood and bread to body rituals
called the eucharistic sacrifice of the non-atoning Jesus.
Amen
@ Reality: That's YOUR reality and you will be the one to pay for it. I'm so sorry you feel that you need to denegrate other people's beliefs by such a heinous act as mocking The Apostle's Creed. Maybe when you are older and have lived and learned and experienced more you'll change your mind.
A good example of the hypocrisy of religion.
Saving 1.5 billion lost Muslims:
There never was and never will be any angels i.e. no Gabriel, no Islam
Saving 2 billion lost Christians:
There was and never will be any bodily resurrections i.e. No Easter, no Christianity
Saving 15.5 million Orthodox followers of Judaism:
Abraham and Moses never existed.
Added details upon request.
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