Posted on 06/08/2018 7:14:03 PM PDT by mairdie
Definitely not a picturesque butt. The sculptor must have been queer.
No, ma’am, they do not. Especially when it is based on blasphemous lies. That’s open worship of sin, period. It’s not Christian and they have no right whatsoever to call themselves that. Worse, they lie to their parishioners by giving them false hopes and assurances that their sinful lifestyles will have no bearing on their salvation and that this grievous and injurious behavior is something to be celebrated.
God spoke loud and clear on the subject.
Christian is as a denomination that centers on Christ defines it. Your congregation defines it one way. Another does another way. You believe you’re right. They believe you’re full of it and that your beliefs are blasphemous. That’s just the right of each person to their own beliefs. I’ll support your right to your own beliefs and I’ll support other denominations right to believe their own way. The only thing I won’t support is someone trying to force another person into their belief structure. That’s why I’m against much of the Muslim faith. It believes it’s their way or the highway. I’m against bigotry and forced beliefs in every religion, including Christianity. But once that church door closes behind a congregation, then their prejudices are their own business. They just can’t bring those prejudices into the town square and act on them.
Congregationalists = UCC = Unitarians Considering Christianity
From the looks of the flag hanging on the church, I see no way that the MM statue is in no way as offensive as what that church supports. Homosexuality is far worse than looking at MM’s panties.
I don’t get into silly sect wars/disagreements. Mild disagreements over this, that, and the other thing are bound to come up. But certain issues are basic, bedrock core principles. We know Satan hates the Church. But what better way to corrupt humans than by misdirection and telling people lies and getting his followers inside these institutions and telling them up is down, backwards is forwards, sin is not sin, and so forth. This is what is going on, and this is why it is evil. Again, you cannot call it a Christian anything when the WORSHIP of sin is right there marking the front door. There are two types of people that will attend said “church”: those that know it is sin and do not care and wish to corrupt the naïve or the weak, and those misguided that believe the lies being told are actually true. The first group are lost souls, but the second can be reached and should be warned as loudly as possible.
It’s very simple: either one believes in the truth as God spoke it, or one does not. I deplore lies and liars. I attended one church as a child that began to tell sinners that their sin wasn’t wrong, and eventually now, that entire sect has been corrupted and turned into that aforementioned den of sin worshipping and not worship of God.
I approach it the same way with politics. It’s why the left deplores true Christianity, because it gets in the way of their worship and proliferation of evil and destruction. They used to come out at election time (and now in our instant media age, every day in between) and lie to their constituents (even as it destroys them) that the Republican/Conservative agenda is harming them, accusing the opposition of every horrible thing that they themselves do on a daily basis. It’s the same thing with sin worship.
After all, you go back 50 years ago and the big issue was liberating sinners from conventional mores so they could “live their own lives/go their own way.” Fine. Except one problem, that wasn’t enough. Because so many leftists and “liberationists” suffer from malignant narcissistic delusions regarding themselves and their abhorrent lifestyles, they can’t just “live by themselves” with their sins. Tolerance isn’t enough. No, they must be forever worshipped for their lifestyles and choices. They can’t stand that sin is preached against, so using Satanic means of “a great lie”, they go sect by sect subverting the word of God and preaching lie as truth to accommodate this abomination.
And now it’s such that the civil rights of those who refuse to go along with this abomination are in serious jeopardy. A couple of black robed jurists away from a full-fledged homofascist tyranny against Christians and others of conscience.
As far as I’m concerned, and as far as God is concerned, what’s going on in these sodomy-worshipping dens of lies is pure evil, straight from Satan himself. The father of lies. And this garbage MUST be called out for what it is.
We differ. That’s fine. If we agreed on everything we’d bore each other silly.
“I’ve had a number of gay friends over the years who are deeply involved with their local churches.”
I’ve had to try to figure that out myself while attending college as several of my classmates were in the LGBT category. I find that those who are not LGBT, but sympathize with the movement, are the most hostile towards those who preach Christian morals.
As someone trying to follow the Bible I believe that Christians can befriend homosexuals with the purpose of sharing the Gospel. However, though it is a very difficult admonition to follow, Christians are supposed to separate from any other professing Christian who is known to be practicing certain sins. Among these is fornication / sexual immorality, which includes, as a subset, homosexual relationships.
I have much more of a problem with churches that claim to be Christian but embrace the LGBT agenda than any other part of our society that does so. The Christian and homosexual lifestyles are incompatible and mutually exclusive. Churches should be welcoming and loving to all people, but they are also supposed to call people to repentance and godliness, and warn them of God’s judgment. The message to “come as you are” is good. But the message to “stay as you are” is bad.
“Yale has a set of letters from Gov William Livingston to my minister g6gf mentioning how good it was that the minister was marrying a virgin so she wouldn’t be able to compare him with anyone else.”
May not be the sort of thing to say from the pulpit, but as a Christian it sounds like good advice more than a dirty joke.
Why “glorify” Marilyn Monroe?
The woman committed suicide.
Anyone see a sick culture here?
Maybe the sculptor is saying it for her ... the statue could have been turned the other way dontchaknow.
You might find H P Lovecraft’s ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth’ an interesting take on what happens to a whole New England town that makes a deal with the devil.
I cannot add a syllable to your discourse. I do remember Franklin Kamaney about 1960 saying all gays wanted was to be treated like every one else. Turned out to be a lie, didn’t it?
I’m 100% in favor of Marilyn Monroe’s butt and 100% opposed to “gay pride”. I don’t understand anyone being upset about the statue if they’re fine with the faggotry.
The use of the word “gay” is bad enough but how did we let queers co-opt the beautiful rainbow, a symbol of God’s majesty (and skittles candy)? It’s passed time to reclaim the symbol for the side of good. Homos can use Mr. Hankey as their new sigil.
Lucille Ball is in my family tree. Sorry, never had an opportunity to say that :) Found out about a decade ago.
Really? I grew up in churches and pretty sure there were gay people there even back then. No flags or other symbols were needed to especially “welcome” them.
Some folks couldn’t say “butt” if their lips were all over one....
It was appalling to me to see tourists taking photos of one another as they were posing in odd ways with the bull’s back end and genitalia. Gross.
Get over it. I have seen hundred of photos of people interacting with statues (youtube). Most are funny, some are risque, none pornographic.
There are two kinds of people, those with a sense of humor, and those without.
Me I find a lot of things funny but I don’t expect everyone to share my taste in humor so unless it is hurting someone one...I don’t worry about it.
What is your definition of a skank? I think was looking for love just like most of us.
What is indecent about it?
Her thighs are too fat also.
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