Open Question: My girlfriend is going to a church where they wash people's feet. What is this all about?

[feedcrawler]

I'm an atheist and have a very negative view of religion. In a cruel twist of fate, my girlfriend has wholeheartedly embraced Chrisitanity and fervently attends church, despite my efforts to stop her. She never went on to higher education and I think she uses religion to fill this void in her life. Also, I've been unfaithful to her a number of times and I've been told that her religious commitment is a reaction to this. She told me earlier this evening that tomorrow her church is going to have a "foot washing service." I was immediaely suspicious. What church is so concerned with its member's feet? She started to tell me something about a woman washing Jesus's feet with her hair. I told her she had best not put her hair on anyone's feet. She told me that wasn't it, but she'd explain later. It sounds like some bizarre fetish church to me. Why in the world would she get mixed up in something so odd? I was raised a Christian, but this is the first I heard of such a service.

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