Jesus Christ, you people are noisey
I was out running an errand on my bike the other day, and noticed a strong police "presence" - as in bikecops on a few corners (more so than usual). On my way back i found out what it was all about.
Turns out it's this "Jesus in the City" shindig, that apparently includes a half-assed, albeit noisey-assed parade that takes up one-way traffic down Yonge to College and over to Queen's park. There were floats blaring indecipherable music, people waving signs naming the books of Old and New Testament, and other confusing banners:
Seeing the folks in their "biblical" garb, it just reminded me that I still had to check out AJ Jacob's "A Year of Living Biblically"
A quick poke around the JitC website, and you find some interesting tidbits about their "Vision" including:
- To restore the cultural relevance of music and the arts to the church.
I'm not sure what the plan is there - to entice the church to be more compatible with art or vice versa? I wonder what the paradetheists would've thought of some actual current and relevant art happening just down the street at the Queen West Art Crawl?
I have to admit that I found it odd to see such a "godly" prescence in downtown Toronto, not only because Jesus-freaks tend to only sport goiters and yell at people from Dundas and Yonge, but also because christianity is being marginalized in this neck of the woods. Perhaps they see it as a challenge? WWJD?
Personally, I can't wait for the Godless in the City Parade. When is that happening?
Originally published at v01d.
Turns out it's this "Jesus in the City" shindig, that apparently includes a half-assed, albeit noisey-assed parade that takes up one-way traffic down Yonge to College and over to Queen's park. There were floats blaring indecipherable music, people waving signs naming the books of Old and New Testament, and other confusing banners:
Seeing the folks in their "biblical" garb, it just reminded me that I still had to check out AJ Jacob's "A Year of Living Biblically"
A quick poke around the JitC website, and you find some interesting tidbits about their "Vision" including:
- To restore the cultural relevance of music and the arts to the church.
I'm not sure what the plan is there - to entice the church to be more compatible with art or vice versa? I wonder what the paradetheists would've thought of some actual current and relevant art happening just down the street at the Queen West Art Crawl?
I have to admit that I found it odd to see such a "godly" prescence in downtown Toronto, not only because Jesus-freaks tend to only sport goiters and yell at people from Dundas and Yonge, but also because christianity is being marginalized in this neck of the woods. Perhaps they see it as a challenge? WWJD?
Personally, I can't wait for the Godless in the City Parade. When is that happening?
Originally published at v01d.