Your reaction if you went to a church and the preacher wore pre-torn jeans

[Lief 🗽]

I think there was a Wonder Years (??) episode about that, but with football helmets.

[Torie]

If in a pew, showing up in torn jeans if just ducky. If invited to hold forth at the podium, seeking their rapt attention, doing it in torn jeans, particularly if it "under-dresses" the congregation, is a sign of disrespect. Call me old fashioned.  Maybe it is in the gay in me, but sartorial presentation matters.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If in a pew, showing up in torn jeans if just ducky.

There are no pews in this church.

If invited to hold forth at the podium, seeking their rapt attention, doing it in torn jeans, particularly if it "under-dresses" the congregation, is a sign of disrespect. Call me old fashioned.  Maybe it is in the gay in me, but sartorial presentation matters.

Hahahaha. Not a problem believe me.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Call the Fashion Police

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I don't go to church so it's an immaterial question.

[tik 🪀✨]

If in a pew, showing up in torn jeans if just ducky. If invited to hold forth at the podium, seeking their rapt attention, doing it in torn jeans, particularly if it "under-dresses" the congregation, is a sign of disrespect. Call me old fashioned.  Maybe it is in the gay in me, but sartorial presentation matters.

I doubt at brtd's church that that's under-dressing the audience. I wouldn't be surprised if people there made it a point to be as casual as possible to undermine the idea that God expects you to wear your "best" clothes, which is something I've always agreed with. Respect for your God, your pastor, your congregation, that's something proven with actions that reflect your faith, not the objects you literally use to hide yourself from the outside.

In conclusion, BRTD ought to start a nudist church.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Wouldn't care one bit.

So we have yet another "tell me... which is cooler? Something I like or some hyperbolic version of something else?" poll.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If in a pew, showing up in torn jeans if just ducky. If invited to hold forth at the podium, seeking their rapt attention, doing it in torn jeans, particularly if it "under-dresses" the congregation, is a sign of disrespect. Call me old fashioned.  Maybe it is in the gay in me, but sartorial presentation matters.

I doubt at brtd's church that that's under-dressing the audience. I wouldn't be surprised if people there made it a point to be as casual as possible to undermine the idea that God expects you to wear your "best" clothes, which is something I've always agreed with. Respect for your God, your pastor, your congregation, that's something proven with actions that reflect your faith, not the objects you literally use to hide yourself from the outside.

I don't think that's actually true (the first part at least), it's more like "this is how I normally dress, and there's no reason to dress any differently to church" plus the fact that many are going to coffee shops and bars before and after church too. And you don't dress any differently for church than you do for those things.

But the second sentence, yeah no one would disagree.

[Mr. Illini]

Well that would be pretty weird, since when I do go to Church it is a Catholic one.

[politicus]

Sticking it to the Fashion Police = FF.

[politicus]

Being used to ministers looking like this:



I would be rather surprised if a preacher wore pre-torn jeans in church and I doubt I would be able to take her/him seriously.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What's with the weird frilly thing around her neck?

[Simfan34]

What's with the weird frilly thing around her neck?

They're Northern European Lutherans. But then again it is a woman.

[TDAS04]

Somewhere in between options 2 and 3.

[politicus]

What's with the weird frilly thing around her neck?

It is a ruff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruff_%28clothing%29

They're Northern European Lutherans. But then again it is a woman.

No difference. Ruffs were always a gender (and age) neutral attire.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I've never sseen an American Lutheran minister wear one of those and kind of assumed they went extinct in the 18th century. I have seen Lutheran ministers at church in jeans though (not torn granted). In North Dakota too.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Ruffs were always a gender (and age) neutral attire.

Somehow I highly doubt that, at least in practice...

[politicus]

Ruffs were always a gender (and age) neutral attire.

Somehow I highly doubt that, at least in practice...

Used by children as well back when they were fashionable.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Ruffs were always a gender (and age) neutral attire.

Somehow I highly doubt that, at least in practice...

Used by children as well back when they were fashionable.

Sure, but the people who were children when it was fashionable are probably either dead or very old today.

[politicus]

I've never sseen an American Lutheran minister wear one of those and kind of assumed they went extinct in the 18th century. I have seen Lutheran ministers at church in jeans though (not torn granted). In North Dakota too.

They where used by Danish and Norwegian ministers in America back when they had their own churches, but The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America joined the Lutheran Church in America in 1962 (already renamed AELC in 1954). The old style clothing did not survive the merger. Not sure about the Norwegians. I guess it is a similar story.

The Church of Norway abolished ruffs in 1980, so only a few conservative ministers still wear them in Norway.

[Sopranos Republican]

Everyone knows that a real church service in The One True Church centers around absolute boredom, and thus cannot involve sexual stimualtion.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Everyone knows that a real church service in The One True Church centers around absolute boredom, and thus cannot involve sexual stimualtion.

You have a torn jeans fetish?

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

If invited to hold forth at the podium, seeking their rapt attention, doing it in torn jeans, particularly if it "under-dresses" the congregation, is a sign of disrespect. Call me old fashioned.  Maybe it is in the gay in me, but sartorial presentation matters.

This.

I have no problem if people, including the pastor, wear jeans to church. Non-baggy, non-athletic shorts won't turn me off as long as you aren't on stage. But when it comes to torn jeans, evidently stained clothing, or clear evidence that you don't care about basic hygiene, that's where I draw the line and call it blatant disrespect for god and the conregation,  especially if you're on stage.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Everyone knows that a real church service in The One True Church centers around absolute boredom, and thus cannot involve sexual stimualtion.

You have a torn jeans fetish?

[RI]

I would be wondering why they weren't wearing an alb.