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Uh Midi, how many ministers, preachers and openly professed God fearing 'christians' have been involved in and prosecuted for cases of 1. child molestation 2. prostatution or 3. murder just in the last few years nationally?
A very very small percentage of the total.
No matter what group you look at, you will find that some ringers have slipped into the crowd. So this argument is really a red herring - an attempt to sidetrack the issue.
1. Don't count Catholics and Protestant Christians in the same group. Catholic priests are under extra celibacy rules which are NOT in the Bible.
2. The fact that someone SAYS he is Christian doesn't mean that his beliefs are really Christian:
- There are many charlatans who pretend to be Christians for various reasons.
- Some college students choose ministry as a profession to avoid working for a living (usually true Christians leave their congregations quickly).
- Some people pretend to be Christian to please a significant other, but don't really understand Christianity.
- There are newbies who haven't read enough of the Bible to know what they are doing. They base their wrong actions on a few isolated verses taken out of context.
- There are too many who say they are Christian, but who are really obeying the religion of Political Correctness instead. They were taught this aberrant belief in government schools.
3. Note that many in the news media want to discredit Christianity. Many journalists are liberals, and want the anti-war religion of Political Correctness to become the state religion. So they amplify these incidents to discredit Christianity.
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To those outside this Messiac belief see a seriouse problem, it appears the worship has shifted from focus on the Messiah, rather than his teachings.
What??? This sentence doesn't make any sense. Please POOFREAD!
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Im not trying to convince you or anyon else that theres a problem, its on the news all the time so theres nothing to discuss as far as I can see.
It's on the news, because the liberal news people WANT it to be on the news. They grab every little instance and magnify it out of proportion.
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The mother who hung her children and herself, the mother who drownd her children in the bathtub, the father who shot his wife and son, ... the asian student who shot fellow students after videotaping himself saying he was "LIKE CHRIST"
I have noticed that many mentally-ill people blame Christianity for their wrong actions. But they usually do this out of their own hatred for Christ (not in obedience to Him). They open their mouthes and blather, and the clowns doing the news take it at face value, rather than for the hatred it is.
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the ministers doing drugs and hiring prostetutes
This is a very tiny minority of ministers, but if you listen to the news, they make it sound like all ministers do it. And undoubtedly some of those are among the charlatans mentioned earlier.
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I find myself sad to see the loudest voices tend to be those who trust the Lord our God the least.
That makes sense. The true Christian is NOT supposed to announce good deeds with trumpets and fanfare. The faker does that. The believer is supposed to do his good works in secret, so nobody can boast.
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The facts are the facts, we don't see horror stories about Buddists, Muslims, or Wiccans killing their 'beloved' family members in this country. If they are, it certainly got past the media.
The news media suppress some of them. I had to use other sources to find out about a homosexual who was angry at Christians and committed a massacre in a Texas church. It received all of 4 lines in the local paper, because the story wasn't Politically Correct.
There were several cases where Muslims killed their women for "fornication" or "Sharia violation" (wearing Western clothing.) You didn't mention those. But the news media didn't cover them for extended periods either. They got a few lines on the morning after the event, and then disappeared into a black hole of non-coverage.
Satan-cult members do some of these awful things you mention, and then claim that Christ made them do it. They are also responsible for most of the cattle-mutilation cases.
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But you should keep in mind that there are people, such as the Pope, who recently formally announced all churches EXCEPT Roman Catholics are 'lacking' and therefore unsaved by Christs blood, irregardless of being extentions of their church and based on the same beliefs. He says he is the 'authority' on such matters..... but thats just his feelings, thoughts or words right? It means NOTHING in the broader scope of religouse matters of the Christian kind.
I agree with that. The Catholic church added a lot of stuff which is NOT taught by Christ or included in the Bible. That's why Martin Luther and the Protestants left Catholicism.
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Now, if it was a Muslim or Wiccan group who were getting plates at a discounted price from the state... I wonder how that would go over here?
What discount price? The price is the cost of a license plate.
The other special plates have an extra charge, because part of that charge is used to support the group the plate is for. The School plate sends some money to schools. Christian groups can't get such funding, but want their beliefs represented anyway. So the extra charge can't be put on the God plates.
The Ham Radio and Disabled Veteran plates also have no extra charge. Any ham radio operator can have his callsign as his license plate number. So it is not just Christians who get special plates with no surcharge.
I'm trying to decide which to get this time - I can't put my ham callsign on the God plate.
Environmentalism is a religion, so there shouldn't be an extra-cost special funding plate for the environment.
The vanity plates (e.g. "VW WABIT"
DO cost more to use, because the plates have no normal county-of-origination info coded into the license number. So the state has to run a special database for them. Normal license plates, and the other specialty plates, do have county-of-origin info coded into the plate numbers, as do the "In God we trust" plates and the ham plates (the FCC callsign itself has base-station location encoded into it), so the database charge does not apply.
... Life is a dirty trick, but government is a dirtier one....
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