From CNN via Oyster, via Atrios:
DALLAS, Texas (CNN) -- If you turn to the Bible -- Isaiah Chapter 35, Verse 8 -- you will see a passage that in part says, "A highway shall be there, and a road, and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness."
Now, is it possible that this "highway" mentioned in Chapter 35 is actually Interstate 35 that runs through six U.S. states, from southern Texas to northern Minnesota? Some Christians have faith that is indeed the case.
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Churchgoers in all six states recently finished 35 days of praying alongside Interstate 35, but the prayers are still continuing.
Cindy Jacobs, the Texas minister who received the revelation after reading Isaiah 35:8, says she's not absolutely sure that Highway 35 is the actual highway mentioned in Isaiah.
Now, it's only fair to say most people, the religious and the non-religious alike, don't buy any of this, but none more than the owners of some of the adult businesses along I-35.
No kidding.
Is there no end to stupidity? I suppose not. Remember the folks who drank Jim Jones' Kool-aid in Guyana? This is a minor absurdity.
12-19-07
wow, this IS weird. I haven't seen any pray-ers up in my section of 35, but maybe I'm not looking hard enough.
ReplyDeleteon the other hand, it's pretty cold up here. maybe they're just sending their prayers in.
Oh dear. My blogfriend Larry from Let's Talk God posted the Pat Robertson video about this a week or so ago and I just about flipped.
ReplyDeleteThen TomCat at Politics Plus posted about it and that is how I got into my recent bout of "PA" (pedantic a**holery) that I mentioned on my Christmas post.
I am so easily agitated, I must calm down!
Diane, please report any sightings however.
LOL, you two. I think the vigil may have ended, and perhaps it did not extend to the colder portions of I-35.
ReplyDeleteI figure we Christians might just as well get ahead of this kind of story, but I'm late on this one. They give us all a bad name - well, not bad exactly - just a place in the lunatic fringe.
I think that there may be something in this - so I have forwarded this item to the Diocese of Wenchoster Social Awareness Sub-Committee. They usually send a research team and report back ...
ReplyDeleteRR, so you think there could be something to this? Well, I suppose there could be. I can't prove that I-35 is not the Highway to Holiness. An investigation could be in the interest of everyone. I'm glad you're on the case, RR. We'll see if the Diocese sends a research team.
ReplyDeleteI'm keeping watch along my stretch of I-35, too, but so far no sign of anyone on his or her knees in the snowdrifts and ice.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to laugh at this absurdity, but when you consider the destructive activity afoot in the Anglican Communion right now, all in the name of God of course, this seems mild by comparison. THAT I have more trouble laughing about.
Hi Frank, welcome. I visited your blog, and I know a good bit about you already. Congratulations on your award from the Arts Council.
ReplyDeleteI have eaten Amish-grown corn, picked off the stalk as we purchased it, and it was the best corn I have ever eaten. We were in Kansas Amish country, I believe.
A good friend of ours served in Vietnam. He was thinking of making a career of the Army, but he changed his mind.
Keep a-watchin' I-35, and let me know if you spot something, but I doubt you'll see anyone kneeling in a snowdrift.
What's going on Episcopal-Anglican Land is not one bit funny.
Frank may be right to connect I-35 with our Anglican difficulties. After all, doesn't it run right through the Diocese of Fort Worth? And they do not want us "unclean" folk anywhere around them. And, if they extend the highway, it could go straight to Southern Cone! I do think that Wenchoster needs to investigate this carefully....
ReplyDeleteJohn, I admitted that I have no proof. Someone in the press should keep in touch with those folks to see if their prayers got results.
ReplyDeleteThat's a long trip down to the Southern Cone, but it could be done.
I suppose there are no "unclean" in the Southern Cone.
Don't worry Grandmère Mimi. I drive on the 35 all the time and, so far, I'm still gay.
ReplyDeleteRowan, the prayers seem not to have been effective in your case. That's good, because I like you the way you are.
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