{"id":2295,"date":"2019-03-24T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T19:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndturner.com\/gracePlus\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2019-08-11T17:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T23:38:17","slug":"ymca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ndturner.com\/gracePlus\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"YMCA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Y logo.<\/p><\/div>\n

I usually get accused of being stodgy or negative, but generally reality is worse than I think.\u00a0 I assume things are better than they are not worse.\u00a0 The \u2018Y\u2019 logo was like this.\u00a0 It has bothered me for a while that the \u2018Young Men\u2019s Christian Association\u2019 has been turned into\u2014just\u2014\u2018young\u2019.\u00a0 I think it is very fitting.\u00a0 The Christian part obviously has been removed from our culture.\u00a0 And referring to or organizing something around men is also out, thank you feminists.\u00a0 And even the association is mostly gone.\u00a0 Young people don\u2019t form associations or become members of churches, because then they might be associated with the negatives of any human collaborative effort.\u00a0 We are not joiners.\u00a0 We do worship youth, however.\u00a0 We love youth, anything youth do is good, correct, right, moral.\u00a0 Parents go to the churches their kids like.\u00a0 Parents let their kids dictate everything, because they know how to work technology.\u00a0 And most of the people in those \u2018Y\u2019 gyms are there pretending they are a lot younger than they really are.\u00a0 Worshipping youth.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then on looking into the history of the YMCA logo, it\u2019s even worse.\u00a0 The original logo contained a Bible verse and a Bible. Oh my.\u00a0 Long before the days of multiculturalism, it was a verse about bringing the world together under the Gospel.\u00a0 John 17:21.\u00a0 It was in Roman numerals! Who knows what those are anymore?\u00a0 This verse is Jesus praying for his disciples in the garden sweating blood.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Original 1871 Crest.<\/p><\/div>\n

What a beautiful, sentiment, goal, war cry!\u00a0 The old logo reiterates the importance of this plea by calling out all the populated continents.\u00a0 And in the background is the \u2018chi-rho\u2019.\u00a0 The first two letters of \u2018Kristos\u2019, \u2018Christ\u2019 in the Greek alphabet \u2018X\u2019 and \u2018P\u2019.\u00a0 This monogram was one of the earliest symbols of the Christian.\u00a0 You find it carved all over ancient caves and rocks in Turkey to this day.<\/p>\n

What a shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I usually get accused of being stodgy or negative, but generally reality is worse than I think.\u00a0 I assume things are better than they are not worse.\u00a0 The \u2018Y\u2019 logo was like this.\u00a0 It has bothered me for a while that the \u2018Young Men\u2019s Christian Association\u2019 has been turned into\u2014just\u2014\u2018young\u2019.\u00a0 I think it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t