{"id":1315,"date":"2013-02-09T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T00:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2013-02-09T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T00:04:59","slug":"chastised-from-the-altar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/02\/09\/chastised-from-the-altar\/","title":{"rendered":"Chastised from the altar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This happened in a church I once attended. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepowerteam.com\/\">Power Team<\/a> had just finished smashing a ten foot tower of ice with their foreheads and had launched into the preaching. A poor dude in our vicinity had the temerity to head out for a bathroom break (we&#8217;d been sitting for over an hour at that point) when the HUGE thug on stage yelled, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you DARE leave. We performed, now you listen. Ushers, stand by the doors and don&#8217;t let anyone exit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man sat down in shame. I decided I didn&#8217;t want to attend any more Power Team events.<\/p>\n<p>What gets me in this vid is the preacher&#8217;s creepy smile, surrounded by a version of, &#8220;I love you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arugh!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Larry Smith Stops A Talker\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sBU6JFjSL3Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This happened in a church I once attended. The Power Team had just finished smashing a ten foot tower&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}