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Texas Christian Group Burns 22 Pairs of Air Jordan's in Christ's Name
Youtube ^ | 1-8-2012

Posted on 01/08/2012 2:26:35 PM PST by My Favorite Headache

A group of "Christ Warriors" in Texas just outside of Dallas torched over 22 pairs of Air Jordan's (a lot of them the very ones people were rioting over during Christmas) on Friday night.

The video is just making the rounds today on the net but they intend on making bigger statements shortly..that this was just the start.

They are saying shoes and items like these are basically what is wrong with society in general and that at the end of the day they aren't worth anything without Christ in your life and at the gates of Heaven. Arguments have been made that they should have donated to homeless people...fact is...the group goes into the ghettos and bad areas of Dallas and help hands on and that the shoes would actually get some of them killed.

Video link: http://youtu.be/euYi7DEqtdA


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: christ; christians; insanity; jesus; soc
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1 posted on 01/08/2012 2:26:40 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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To: My Favorite Headache

Dumb.


2 posted on 01/08/2012 2:29:30 PM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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To: My Favorite Headache

re-post the link dude it did not take.

with that said I am glad they burned them. I saw the riots and that was going into the ground.


3 posted on 01/08/2012 2:31:16 PM PST by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: Utmost Certainty

And somewhere there are people without shoes...


4 posted on 01/08/2012 2:31:53 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: My Favorite Headache; verga; thesaleboat; Sick of Lefties; Chainmail; StrongandPround; ...
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5 posted on 01/08/2012 2:32:38 PM PST by narses
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There are people out there that are willing to suffer the embarrassment of wearing those shoes if they had them because they can't afford to buy good shoes.

What is wrong with these shoe burners?

6 posted on 01/08/2012 2:32:56 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: My Favorite Headache

What is the problem with these shoes? Why might they get you killed?


7 posted on 01/08/2012 2:33:57 PM PST by BlackVeil
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Seriously? This group paid $100+ for a pair of sneakers just to burn them? They could have burned the boxes as some sort of protest and given the sneakers to Salvation Army or some other charity to give away. Sounds pretty stupid to me if they really did burn the sneakers.


8 posted on 01/08/2012 2:35:16 PM PST by EDINVA
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You know, I am not a proponent of this sort of proselytizing, mainly because I came up through all of that in a simpler day, when it was done quietly, and with reasoned care mostly face-to-face one-on-one.

Leave the theatre and the theatrics to the muslims.

9 posted on 01/08/2012 2:39:06 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: My Favorite Headache

This is what gives Christians a bad name.


10 posted on 01/08/2012 2:39:34 PM PST by independent in tx
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If you watch the video...you will see them burning all of them...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euYi7DEqtdA&feature=colike


11 posted on 01/08/2012 2:39:34 PM PST by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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Might want to google air jordan riots christmas


12 posted on 01/08/2012 2:40:09 PM PST by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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It ain't just shoes folks - probably the best analogy out 'there' is the picture of Tebow in his familiar position of knee bent prayer before a game and the other picture showing hundreds of Muslims praying, bottoms up on a public street.

"Christ Warriors" don't need to burn shoes to make their point, they need to loudly fight back with pictures like the one described or stop the building of more mosques in American towns and cities. Our President needs to be reminded of our Christian faith with an 's' as in faiths...not kowtow to Islam for any reason.

13 posted on 01/08/2012 2:40:17 PM PST by yoe
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Idiots.
Why didn’t they spend the $100 + and buy six-seven pairs of reasonably priced shoes and donate them to homeless shelters or children groups or some other charity.


14 posted on 01/08/2012 2:40:35 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euYi7DEqtdA&feature=colike


15 posted on 01/08/2012 2:40:47 PM PST by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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BURN ALL SHOES! JESUS DIDN’T WEAR SHOES!


16 posted on 01/08/2012 2:42:27 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: My Favorite Headache

and did exactly what?
God instructed us as to how exactly to make burnt offerings and what to offer - air Jorden’s wasn’t part of of it.


17 posted on 01/08/2012 2:50:44 PM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen (I STAND WITH ISRAEL)
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To: My Favorite Headache
Buddha threw his begging bowl into the river. (I think it was to make the point that possessions are bad.)
18 posted on 01/08/2012 2:55:35 PM PST by Selmore (Except for ending Slavery, Facism, Communism, and Nazism, War never has accomplished anything)
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To: Utmost Certainty

And the ‘hood did not rise up in anger and cut Christian’s heads off or burn any churches.

Just goes to show the ‘hood is more civilaized than Islam.


19 posted on 01/08/2012 2:59:56 PM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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Despite the money they spent on the shoes, they are right about mad consumerism/ culture rot that drives people to kill and steal for a pair of shoes. The money spent on the shoes is irrelevant. The government spends trillions on poverty, so why are there still kids without shoes? Please don’t any one pretend that the couple hundred dollars is going to make a difference when churches are spending millions on their own churches instead of donating it to people in poverty.


20 posted on 01/08/2012 3:01:32 PM PST by InvisibleChurch ( go in peace , serve the Lord)
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