christian glurges
I have created a new category on signposts for glurges. The Urban Legends Reference Page defines glurges as:
Think of it as chicken soup with several cups of sugar mixed in: It’s supposed to be a method of delivering a remedy for what ails you by adding sweetening to make the cure more appealing, but the result is more often a sickly-sweet concoction that induces hyperglycemic fits.
In ordinary language, glurge is the sending of inspirational (often supposedly “true”) tales that conceal much darker meanings than the uplifting moral lessons they purport to offer, and that undermine their messages by fabricating and distorting historical fact in the guise of offering a “true story.”
Many of us, it seems, cannot overcome the urge to glurge.
Every now and then someone sends me one of these based around some stupid story showing how we have to be more christian - like this one that I posted recently. Anyway, I have decided to pluck some of these more memorable (and theologically questionable) tales from the depths of my inbox and share them with you. Feel free to discuss the theological implications in the comments.
November 10th, 2005 at 12:48 pm
[…] ael Card is endorsing Lights of Christmas, which leads me to believe it’s not just a glurge.
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November 29th, 2005 at 12:01 pm
[…] Easy v Hard Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 11:59 am by dan under glurge Another christian glurge from my inbox [text in bold mine] Why is it so ha […]