What does it take to be Charity? As requested by a reader
The Charity Movement is open to anyone who would like to join it. Due to the lack of church membership, if you want to join them, just start going to their churches until you feel like you belong. However, if you would like to know if you are specially suited to this group, then ask yourself these questions.
1) Was your father abusive or a Class A Hypocrite in your opinion?
2) Were you raised in some kind of Mennonite church, but never fit in?
3) Have you attended at least four churches from various denominations?
4) Are you dissatisfied with every church you have ever attended?
5) Do you have a deep-seated aversion to any form of church standards?
6) Do you like to dress in an extremely casual manner?
7) Do you prefer the cloth veiling to the traditional cap-style covering?
8 ) Do you believe that the straight-cut suit and the cape dress are to be shunned as the “traditions of man”?
9) Do you feel that the large majority of Mennonites and Amish in the world are unsaved?
10) Do you work in a tire shop, or some other occupation which causes you to get filthy?
11) Do you have a penchant for wearing bill caps, especially camoflauge bill caps?
12) Do you feel that you ought to have a family in excess of fourteen children?
13) Do you drive a van with more than two rust holes in it?
14) Do you believe that God’s plan is for a man to wear a beard which reaches, at minimum, the third button on his shirt?
15) Do you wear cowboy boots?
If you have answered yes to at least ten of these questions, than you are a prime candidate for the Charity church. I hope this helps all the dissatisfied Beachys out there who are weighing the cost of joining the “remnant.”
Score bonus points if you believe that Denny Kenaston is the best preacher and theologian since Menno Simons.
Score extra bonus points if you believe Denny Kenaston is the best preacher since the Apostle Paul.
HBB
x amish wrote,
Its good to have a funny blog again!!
Link | April 30th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Thebeachcomplexrabblerouser wrote,
Nice! lol!
Link | May 2nd, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Ivan Y wrote,
thanks for linking my article about beards.
Link | May 8th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Lonny90 wrote,
time for another post….
Link | May 17th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
x amish wrote,
what happened to the stories?? I need a funny!!
Link | May 23rd, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Jake M wrote,
Just read your post on what it takes to join the charity remnant. From the looks of things, I would question whether you have ever even set foot in a charity church. I would also , question your (SANITY). But I suppose the world needs losers like you to balance the rest of us that DO know anything about matters?!!! Have a good one
Link | May 25th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
RagPicker wrote,
Blech to you too Jake M.
BTW, one minor pick. Charity DOES have standards. Big time. They also have written standards.
Link | June 14th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
HC wrote,
Don’t lump all Charity churches in one lump, please…They have written standards,believe me, and most of the churches have member ship.
Link | August 1st, 2007 at 12:16 am
Eldub wrote,
lol that is some serious mud throwing. super hilarious though. u must have been burned by some charity peepz somewhere along the way
Link | August 1st, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Rocknmenno wrote,
Just read your post on what it takes to join the charity remnant. From the looks of things, I would say you have often set foot in a charity church. I would also say you have great insight and discernment. I suppose the world needs sharp minded guys like you to balance the rest of us that DO get hoodwinked by religious BS?!!! Have a good one
Link | August 7th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
HC wrote,
HBB & Rocknmenno, I really don’t appreciate the original post or the approving comments on it. And no, I am not a Charity church member. However, I do have a question for you…If someone posted something similarly deriding about your church, would you think it was funny? I think it’s high time the rest of we Plain people stop looking down our noses at the Charity churches. I totally agree with Jake M’s post…
Link | August 8th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Quinjotta wrote,
HC & Jake M, just calm down! If you are looking for a serious discussion on Beachys, Charitys, or any form of Mennonites or Amish in general, you are visiting the WRONG site. It’s satire. HBB has similarly derided the Beachys anyway. This entire site seems to deride the Beachys. If you don’t like it, don’t read it.
P.S. Have a good one.
Link | August 11th, 2007 at 11:39 am
The Baritone wrote,
You guys (or maybe you’re girls, I don’t know) are so funny! Y’all are rebuking each other up and down the river, and then a lot of you close your post with “have a good one.” Ha ha!
By the way, have a good one. Heeheeheeheehee!
Link | August 12th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
The Bass wrote,
I think this is hilarious! Finally someone who “gets it.” It’s not an attack on Charity or Beachy, just a funny website that’s pretty true. Have a good one.
Link | August 14th, 2007 at 3:00 pm