I-35 is road to salvation, say some Christians

this is an approach to infrastructure that i think we should consider

How do they reconcile this batshit insanity with the bit of 35 that fell into the river?

I was on I-35 this afternoon and consider myself blessed to have made it home alive.

xpost Dan, didn't you read the article: they didn't start praying until October!

Anyway, my point was that basically, the Sunday drivers seemed to be out to get us.

Churches in 17 cities along the interstate participated, praying along with a guide that outlined "sins" to address, including poverty, racism, abortion and homosexuality.

Poverty is a sin now?

"But Judge Whitey, the jails are all full ever since you declared being poor a crime!"

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2007/12/road-to-ruin.html

The part of 35 that runs through Central Texas is actually pretty OK. Been driving on it regularly for 5 years without so much as a pothole.

that doesn't sound very holey

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that doesn't sound very holey

Roffles =)

I don't know which end of 35 is supposed to lead to salvation, but I've been to the end in Duluth many times, and I can tell you that it ends at a McDonalds.

Well, their fries are heavenly.

the I-35 bridge collapse, the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy in Dallas and a spate of kidnappings and murders in Laredo.

Along with Whitman in Austin, the guy who shot up the Luby's in Killeen as well as Koresh in Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing, Kansas City insisting that their bbq is equal to Memphis, the birthplace of John Wayne, Buddy Holly RIP, and the fact that it's pert near impossible to get on I-94 from the MPLS junction of I-35.

What about the parts where it is I-35 and another interstate at the same time? Does that mean I-35 is carrying the other one? I drive on the stretch that's both I-35 and I-80 all the time so this just creates more questions.

the merged highway theory of salvation

There was a reason why you only saw one set of interstate footprints...

thefact that it's pert near impossible to get on I-94 from the MPLS junction of I-35

JESUS JUST GET OVER IN THE FUCKING LANE IT'S RIGHT THERE HAVEN'T YOU DRIVEN IN THIS TOWN BEFORE OR AT ALL HAVE YOU SIGHT SIR MOVE MOVE MOVE

before this disappears into the strib's archives:

In the beginning

Three years ago, self-described prophet and God Channel regular Cindy Jacobs was preaching in a Texas church when she said she made the first public connection between the interstate and Bible verse.

"It's amazing that there's a scripture that talks about the highway of holiness and there's an actual one," said Jacobs, who co-founded Generals International ministry in Red Oak, Texas, which led the Light the Highway movement.

She referenced a number of incidents along the interstate as a sign of its biblical ties: the I-35 bridge collapse, the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy in Dallas and a spate of kidnappings and murders in Laredo.

"Isaiah 35 talks about a highway of holiness and so we were reading this and felt that in our hearts, just like any Christian would, that it pertained to us," Jacobs said.

The interstate isn't currently holier than any other roadway, she said, but will become so through continued prayer. Churches in 17 cities along the interstate participated, praying along with a guide that outlined "sins" to address, including poverty, racism, abortion and homosexuality.

Jacobs and some participants said it's too soon to expect benefits of the mass prayer, but she predicted that crime will decrease and that government and religious corruption will be exposed.

Coon Rapids resident Tom Gibson is a believer. In the summer of 2005, he and his wife drove the entire stretch of I-35 in 14 days, stopping at churches along the way.

"I felt it wasn't a coincidence," Gibson said. "It is a cry. There has been a lot of repentance."

Downtown Exits? Where am I? How do I get to Loring Park?

^^ interesting article meta-politically, since the star tribune is widely hated by minnesota conservatives (very common to see a bumper sticker derived from the poison-pukey-face w/ text "Star Tribune Bias".) this has been enough of a 'problem' that they've hired a conservative columnist, katherine kersten, formerly of some righty think-tank.

so this article reads to me like snide little effort (in a good way!) to ahem 'report on people of faith' by finding the nuttiest and most unsympathetic ones available. plust their's a bridge hook, always surefire for local media. hurrah!

xp lol

"plus there's a bridge hook"

How can conservatives hate a newspaper that employs James Lileks?

he saves his latter day culture warrior garbage for the internet. his column is sort of like jerry seinfeld via dave barry.

Whoa. I'll take the Democrats Want Another 9/11 over that.

http://www.lightthehighway.org/en/index.php/Purity_Sieges

Fifty or so young people have gathered on Oak Lawn Avenue, positioning themselves on the sidewalk outside of JR’s Bar and Grill, one of many nightclubs found in this neighborhood, which is well-known for it’s large population of homosexuals.

Unlike a political protest that is against something, a purity siege is for something... holiness.

for all you people wondering what having a broken education system does, here you go

yeah that 'spiritual combat' stuff is some real-deal witch burning fantasy shit

omg Tracer

And ye will truly spread the Gospel of His Good Works and Love for All by hatin' on faggits as much as possible, to point of completely rejecting all that other shit He was talking about, like feeding hungry people and healing sick people or even, y'know, actually giving a fuck about what happens to folks worse off that ye.

yeah that 'spiritual combat' stuff is some real-deal witch burning fantasy shit

for realz, "spiritual warfare" translates into "culture warfare" and then into "actual warfare" real quick for some people, who embrace just a bit too eagerly.

> The part of 35 that runs through Central Texas is actually pretty OK. Been driving on it regularly for 5 years without so much as a pothole.

WTF, dude? The express lanes are on the RIGHT! That's fucking insane.

recalling all copies of my 2/19 release to be retitled PURITY SIEGE unless I decide to start a whole spinoff genre based around the concept

"What kind of music do you guys play?"
"Purity Siege & Western. Why?"

Explain to me why God would place the road to salvation in fucking TEXAS!