http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnmTiqEikg

I've been hugging my friends and family in sin all this time

5/7/2010 11:53:14 PM

5/7/2010 11:53:32 PM

I heard this song last year. Never in all my years in church has anyone ever told me I should side hug.

Also, someone needs to learn how to spell Ridiculous.

5/7/2010 11:56:27 PM

What's the best way to fuck girls?

5/7/2010 11:57:48 PM

from behind so you don't have to see them cry

5/8/2010 12:00:10 AM

5/8/2010 12:01:31 AM

^^ hahaha

5/8/2010 12:02:17 AM

Quote :

"Rediculous!"

5/8/2010 12:06:30 AM

5/8/2010 12:07:23 AM

5/8/2010 12:07:23 AM

^^, ^ Niiiiice

5/8/2010 12:07:55 AM

5/8/2010 12:22:03 AM

surely not even Optimum can object to that

5/8/2010 1:06:08 AM

hahaha

5/8/2010 1:06:20 AM

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5/8/2010 4:50:21 AM

My mother always told me to side hug any old man that tried to hug me. She said when old men go for hugs they just want to feel boobies on their chest!

5/8/2010 7:15:06 AM

your mother sounds like a smart lady

5/8/2010 7:18:04 AM

perhaps this is the sort of sensitivity training the Catholic clergy needs

5/8/2010 7:30:48 AM

That was the worst thing I've ever seen.

5/8/2010 10:29:37 AM

Hhahahahahaha....My old church used to to encourage this! I think it was bc no boobs or areas touched. Hugs are my favorite (when i'm comfortable with the person).

5/8/2010 10:34:59 AM

^ agreed

i couldn't even watch the whole video for fear that my eyes would seize up in the position. this is one of many reasons that i have given up on organized religion.

5/8/2010 10:37:28 AM

Haha they're even down on hugging what miserable fucking people

5/8/2010 10:37:44 AM

I couldn't watch the whole video, either. Blanketed christian rules keep me from being free. I understand the heart behind it but it is stupid.

5/8/2010 10:45:36 AM

live and let live, chickadees

5/8/2010 10:46:33 AM

Obviously their God is a God of love if he doesn't even permit dat 190% full-frontal

5/8/2010 11:07:58 AM

Why do you capitalize that word?

Stop giving that fool so much credit son!


I REFUSE TO CAPITALIZE THE "G" in "gOD" SON, EVEN IN ALL CAPS GENERALLY.

5/8/2010 11:09:01 AM

Once, I front hugged a chick, and a baby came out.

5/8/2010 11:23:51 AM

I consider myself classical in all things, son.

5/8/2010 11:26:44 AM

more like

Dat Homophobic Side Hug

[Edited on May 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM. Reason : (I think that's how it started)]

5/8/2010 11:29:37 AM

What in the hell? I've never heard of this.

I grew up in Southern Baptist churches, and I've never seen 95% of the crazy stuff that Baptists get associated with, much less any crazy stuff like this.

5/8/2010 11:30:00 AM

So some of yall have actually been to churches that encourage this?

I've been a regular attender of 4 different churches, and none of them do this. Sometimes the more conservative women will give you the "ass out" hug, but it's still from the front.

5/8/2010 11:32:08 AM

Hey EMCE! Your mom is such a MILTFH

5/8/2010 11:36:48 AM

Oh and it appears this was satire:

'http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-30/news/0911290214_1_hug-christian-fundamentalist

Christian side hugs: The joke's not on fundamentalist Christians
Rap video was a spoof, writer/performer says
November 30, 2009|By Steve Johnson, Tribune reporter

The joke, it turns out, is on the people who thought the joke was on fundamentalist Christians.

In recent weeks, the "Christian side hug" has become something of an Internet buzz item, propelled to viral status largely by a Christian rap video apparently extolling the virtues of the "side hug," a more chaste way for humans to greet.

"Because you will definitely go to Hell if your genitals get anywhere near other peoples' genitals," the New York Web site Buzzfeed said in putting up the video. Bloggers for alternative newspapers in Washington, D.C., and Denver also posted the video, along with commentary bordering on the derisive.
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"I think Christianity just jumped the shark," wrote a commenter about the video when it was put up on The Huffington Post.

But Ryan Pann, the 23-year-old Californian who wrote and was lead performer of the tune, the chorus of which commands, rather catchily, "gimme that Christian side hug," said he wrote the song as self-deprecating humor.

The line, "When I hug people, I leave room for the Holy Spirit," may have been the giveaway.

The side hug is a real practice, with people putting arms around each other's shoulders or waists, as if posing for a photo. But clearly, even some in the Christian community greet the concept with, well, a side hug.

"We think it's hilarious because some people think (the video) is serious," said Pann, reached at The Father's House, a Vacaville, Calif., church that sponsors the Encounter Generation Conference, an annual Christian youth gathering at which the video was shot.

"It's not a mockery of the faith," Pann emphasized. "It's a mockery of the act of the Christian side hug."

5/8/2010 11:40:35 AM

Maybe it is a church of christ thing. I totally grew up with the christian side hug.

5/8/2010 12:25:50 PM

side hugs are the awkward hugs.

5/8/2010 12:34:48 PM

5/8/2010 1:06:45 PM

5/8/2010 1:54:48 PM

so they were trolling

fundamentalist Christians were actually trolling

I'm not sure whether to be or or just

5/8/2010 2:39:38 PM

^ Either that or they're just saying they're trolling

5/8/2010 8:46:38 PM

ya. my first thought was "bullshit, you only say that now as youre getting called the fuck out"

5/8/2010 9:55:05 PM