Bishop backs panty parties to spread Church message

[emad]

By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent
(Filed: 29/09/2005)



Evangelism and erotic underwear are rarely linked outside the tabloid newspapers. But a new book backed by a Church of England bishop urges Christians to spread the message to their friends and neighbours by hosting lingerie parties.

The book, Open the Door, argues that in an age when more people know their zodiac signs than the Ten Commandments, Christians have to use unconventional methods to reverse the decline in churchgoing.

It says: "What a tragedy that we are surrounded daily with television programmes, art, film and even real-life stories sold to magazines and newspapers that champion casual sex and pornography, yet as Christians we often have so little to say about it."

The book, produced by the charity Activate, which is primarily aimed at women, also recommends murder mystery evenings and "pamper" parties as ways to break the ice with non-churchgoers. Other opportunities to spread the faith include knitting groups and book clubs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/29/nchrist29.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/29/ixhome.html

[LiberalVoice]

1. "Other opportunities to spread the faith include...

...orgies, swinger parties, and beastiality."

:D

Zak

[tanyev]

3. You can sprinkle holy water on them during the orgy!

That will turn them all into Christians, right?

[LiberalVoice]

6. I think they have to say "I'm sorry for that sin thing" first. nt

[emad]

4. How about religious condoms with images of the patron saint of

family planning.....er, nominations for that post still pending, maybe JP2?

[emad]

2. Papal sewers turn altar cloths into thongs:

Pope's altar cloth makers turn to a more profitable line - thongs
By Hilary Davies in Koniakow, Poland
08 August 2004


The Polish village of Koniakow is not its former serene self. Is the reason bitter wartime memories or the legacy of 50 years of Communist rule? No. It is underwear. Very skimpy, very tight underwear.

For hundreds of years the local lace-making grannies have been crocheting altar cloths and Roman Catholic vestments, including one altar cloth for the Pope. But some have switched production in rather a dramatic fashion. They have started making thongs - and the Church is not happy about it. So unhappy, in fact, that the local priest has even been naming and shaming the thong-makers in church on Sundays.

Traditionalists agree with this tough line. At the village's one-room lace museum, Mieczyslaw Kamieniarz fumed: "All of Koniakow is ashamed." He points to the walls of the museum, which are papered with the awards his wife's lacework has won. "Just think, we've made Koniakow lace for altar cloths, priests' robes, even the Pope himself. And now people are going to wear Koniakow lace on their arses," he said.

The makers of the stringi, as they are known, are unabashed. After all, business is booming. Malgorzata Stanaszek, a lace maker in her twenties, set up a production company and its website now has orders flooding in from as far away as the US and Japan.

http://www.koniakow.com/prasa_en.php

[oneighty]

5. Yea! Verily yea!

I shall erect a shrine to sexy underwear.

Yes indeed.

anon.

[zbdent]

7. Ugh - this just made a new definition of the GOP "Big Tent"

thinking of all those large evangelical women in their "Granny panties" . . .