{"id":486,"date":"2010-04-23T15:12:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/04\/holy-ghost-hokey-pokey-shoot-me-now.html"},"modified":"2010-04-23T15:12:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T15:12:38","slug":"holy-ghost-hokey-pokey-shoot-me-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/04\/holy-ghost-hokey-pokey-shoot-me-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Holy Ghost Hokey Pokey? Shoot me now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adventures in modern Christian piety. At the two-minute mark, things really get rolling:<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/31ZXliHbo5Q&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/31ZXliHbo5Q&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object>On second thought, maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada\">Torquemada <\/a>was onto something&#8230;<b>UPDATE:<\/b> Seriously, though, I honestly don&#8217;t understand the appeal of this kind of religion. I am not a charismatic, nor do I find charismatic religion appealing, but I absolutely understand the craving for charismatic experience, and I honor it. In fact, a religion that has pushed all its charismatic elements to the margins is a religion that is not going to last. So, three cheers for charismatics! But this hokey-pokey charade undertaken by actual adults is something else. I don&#8217;t understand why anyone over the age of eight finds it appealing. If I walked in and saw this (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K6bTBN6kdGw&#038;feature=related\">this<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rh_nqtp3VrU&#038;feature=related\">this<\/a> in liturgical churches, to be fair), I&#8217;d run find Richard Dawkins and ask him to show me the light. (H\/T:<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/04\/the-holy-ghost-hokey-pokey.html\"> Sullivan<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adventures in modern Christian piety. 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