Posted on 08/24/2005 2:59:33 PM PDT by Crackingham
I'm shocked
What can you say? It's something that has to be dealt with.
If true, that's an astonishing figure.
I'm curious to see what the website is. Is it just a cute name or is it actual porn?
"I'm not telling why this made me think of you two" - ping
bttt...don't tell my girlfriend I bumped this thread.
If we could bottle and distribute self-control, we'd be billionaires.
Just think what the figures would be without Free Republic soaking up so much bandwidth!
You're only human. Congregations are human. Pastors are human. We all have to deal with natural urges, some of which are self-destructive. In a way, it's good that they're not trying to sweep the problem under the rug and pretend it doesn't exist. Too many churches today refuse to deal with the problem at all.
It is duly noted who went jumping on this thread first!
And 100% are addicted to oxygen. A happy medium has to be found, human beings have innate sexual desires. Maybe an pill can be developed that limits the desire.
Despite Algores contribution, the Internet was built by porn!
15 I do not understand my own actions.For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
17 So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
18 For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
Romans 7:15-21
Same as it ever was....
My problem with porn is that it takes too long to download
I told my preacher never to confuse me with a good Christian. I told the preacher that at best I was a struggling one.
I have plenty of mean and nasty vices that I will admit to but none that I inflict on others.
I figure that my religion is between me and the big guy.
I am in the minority as 99% of my church claims to be good Christians.
Yeah. If we were really good we wouldn't need Christ....
Do they count DU as porn, is the big question...
The sad thing was, he was a really good leader, and a wonderful speaker!
Now we have pastors who are squeaky clean, but couldn't teach there way out of a paper bag. There sermons are so lame I hate going to church anymore. The Sunday comics have more substance than what is currently passing for sermons in my church. It's a lose/lose situation.
I'd leave the church tomorrow, but my wife and children are so socially connected that leaving the church is out of the question for them. They don't care about the lack of teaching, they just don't want to say goodbye to their friends...
Sometimes, life really sucks.
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