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      AFA Pass Along Sheet

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      NBC, Madonna Mock The Crucifixion of Christ

      Program to air in November, Christians need to get involved

      Following the lead of Rosie O’Donnell and ABC saying radical Christians are equal to Muslims who fly planes into buildings, cut off the heads of humans and kill children with suicide bombs, NBC has decided to join in the bashing of Christians by airing a Madonna special in November. A specific date has not been released.

      In the show, Madonna, wearing a fake crown of thorns, descends on a suspended mirrored, disco ball-type cross. When some Christian leaders complained about the mockery, NBC ignored their concerns. A video and pictures of this mockery can be viewed online at www.afa.net.

      Making mockery of the crucifixion of Christ has been a trademark of Madonna for many years. In 1989 she had a video for the hit song “Like A Prayer.” The video featured burning crosses, statues crying blood and Madonna, representing Jesus, freeing a saint from his sexual repression by seducing him. This is the same Madonna who once said, “Crucifixes are sexy because there’s a naked man on them.”

      Kevin Reilly, an executive at NBC, said Madonna considered the scene mocking the crucifixion of Christ the highlight of her upcoming show. “We (NBC) viewed it and didn’t see it as being inappropriate.” Madonna considers mocking the crucifixion of Jesus the highlight of her show and NBC agrees.

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      You really are as worse as Muslims extremist. If people like you -religious extremist- keep growing like they have the last few years, both in the middle-east as in Christians countries, then I foresee great trouble for all of civilization.

      There is a very dark place you can put that spreadsheet of yours. I really hope madonna sells more albums becouse of idiots like you.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Neruo View Post
      You really are as worse as Muslims extremist. If people like you -religious extremist- keep growing like they have the last few years, both in the middle-east as in Christians countries, then I foresee great trouble for all of civilization.

      There is a very dark place you can put that spreadsheet of yours. I really hope madonna sells more albums becouse of idiots like you.
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      I think it&#39;s funny. I&#39;m not a fan of Maddonna, but I think she should have the right to her own religious expression....If people can be on TV and speak up for Christianity, shouldn&#39;t people be aloud to speak against it? I mean, who is anyone to say that someone doesn&#39;t have the right?
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      Woo-hoo&#33;Go NBC, go madonna&#33; (Actually, I hate madonna, but in this, I support her) YAYAYAY&#33;

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      Madonna never mocked Christ, she mocked the fact that people will respond like they did, and she showed she didn&#39;t care.

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      She can say what she wants. It doesnt make it right, and it doesnt mean I agree with her, but her opinion is her opinion.

      I far from agree with this choice, and do not see how Christianity is extremist. But, let her say what she wants. Her opinion, her choice.
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      Woo&#33; Go NBC&#33;
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      Someone show me one single Christian (a Christian who actually follows the Bible and doesn&#39;t just call themselves a Christian, but are REALLY Christians by life) who has chopped off someone&#39;s head, flew a plane into a building, who has killed thousands of people because of a religious disagreement, like the muslims have...just one. keep in mind that there are several people who call themselves Christians but are nowhere close to it.

      yea, everyone is given the right to say what they want and how they want, but what&#39;s going on here is far more than just an oppinion, it&#39;s a flat out mockery, putting down everything many people live their whole lives for. i can&#39;t see how anyone can even justify saying Christians are worse or even close to Muslims in the radical sense. i&#39;ve seen some people who would sit there and say, "You&#39;re going to hell for that&#33;"...well, that person needs to read the Bible about where it says not to judge, they don&#39;t know if that person is saved or not, and have no authority to say they&#39;re going to heaven or hell.

      i&#39;ve seen and heard of more Christians dying for their faith and having their families killed and being murdered right it front of them, moreso than any other religion. Muslims don&#39;t get their heads chopped off, Christians do, muslims don&#39;t get planes flown in their buildings, Christians do. and if you think that wasn&#39;t the motive for 9/11, it was, that&#39;s why they did it, because they look at us and they see Chrsitians, they don&#39;t see atheists and different races and religions in one country, they see a one-religion country, and they hate us for it. i&#39;m not saying all muslims do, but i&#39;m saying that that&#39;s the reason for 9/11, that&#39;s the reason for martyres (spl?).

      You find me one SINGLE Chritian who has chopped off someone&#39;s head, who has purposely flown a plane into a building simply to kill muslims or people of different religion, who has gone on a rampage, killing hundreds of thousands of muslims or other religions simply because of their religious stance. find me just one, true, Christians who has done this, and i&#39;ll drop the subject entirely.

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      Quote Originally Posted by cd27 View Post
      Someone show me one single Christian (a Christian who actually follows the Bible and doesn&#39;t just call themselves a Christian, but are REALLY Christians by life) who has chopped off someone&#39;s head, flew a plane into a building, who has killed thousands of people because of a religious disagreement, like the muslims have...just one. keep in mind that there are several people who call themselves Christians but are nowhere close to it.[/b]
      Ok, so, they didn&#39;t had planes and WTC&#39;s during the Crusades and during the Spanish Inquisition. Yet I am quite sure Alot of heads where chopped off. And hey, there were just following the old testament by every word: Kill the unbelievers. If following the bible doesn&#39;t make you a true christian, what does?

      yea, everyone is given the right to say what they want and how they want, but what&#39;s going on here is far more than just an oppinion, it&#39;s a flat out mockery, putting down everything many people live their whole lives for. i can&#39;t see how anyone can even justify saying Christians are worse or even close to Muslims in the radical sense. i&#39;ve seen some people who would sit there and say, "You&#39;re going to hell for that&#33;"...well, that person needs to read the Bible about where it says not to judge, they don&#39;t know if that person is saved or not, and have no authority to say they&#39;re going to heaven or hell.[/b]
      Yes indeed. You shouldn&#39;t judge. Well how about you people (christians) set the right example by not judging madonna and other athiests. She did it just Becouse she knew what the reaction would be. While actually christianity wasn&#39;t even the point, it was aids or poverty or something.

      (btw I agree with TBM: Madonna sucks, but if I had to choose between her as president or cd27... hell yeah, madonna. )

      i&#39;ve seen and heard of more Christians dying for their faith and having their families killed and being murdered right it front of them, moreso than any other religion. Muslims don&#39;t get their heads chopped off, Christians do, muslims don&#39;t get planes flown in their buildings, Christians do. and if you think that wasn&#39;t the motive for 9/11, it was, that&#39;s why they did it, because they look at us and they see Chrsitians, they don&#39;t see atheists and different races and religions in one country, they see a one-religion country, and they hate us for it. i&#39;m not saying all muslims do, but i&#39;m saying that that&#39;s the reason for 9/11, that&#39;s the reason for martyres (spl?).[/b]
      I once again refer to the crusades and the spanish inquisition. Funny allso how you seem to... judge muslims. Didn&#39;t you just tell me judging people was bad? You are generalising muslims too, most muslims don&#39;t want to kill innocent people. Allso, about -what- 90% of the innocent people that died in afganistan and iraq were muslim? I can quite honestly say it is certain that christians killed more muslims then muslims killed christians. Not just in the last 6 years, but allso in all of history.


      You find me one SINGLE Chritian who has chopped off someone&#39;s head, who has purposely flown a plane into a building simply to kill muslims or people of different religion, who has gone on a rampage, killing hundreds of thousands of muslims or other religions simply because of their religious stance. find me just one, true, Christians who has done this, and i&#39;ll drop the subject entirely.[/b]
      Geogre W. Bush ( oh yes)

      if you just replace &#39;chopping a head of&#39; with &#39;years of torture of people (most innocent) without trail&#39; and &#39;flying a plane into a building&#39; to &#39;bombing the shit out of residential area&#39;s with lots of planes&#39;. In that case Good ol&#39; Geogre furfills all your needs.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Neruo View Post
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      Someone show me one single Christian (a Christian who actually follows the Bible and doesn&#39;t just call themselves a Christian, but are REALLY Christians by life) who has chopped off someone&#39;s head, flew a plane into a building, who has killed thousands of people because of a religious disagreement, like the muslims have...just one. keep in mind that there are several people who call themselves Christians but are nowhere close to it.[/b]
      And? Show me a "true" Muslim who has flown a plane into a building, or cut off somebody&#39;s head? What? Those terrorists? They weren&#39;t true Muslims.
      See why your argument is flawed?

      Next:
      For future reference.
      [2:23] And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
      [2:24] And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.[/b]
      So here, Elisha, by the power of the Lord, causes that 42 children are violently mauled and ripped apart by two bears. This is a prophet, mind you. Hard to get more Christian than that. And all they did was make fun of his bald head...
      If I made fun of YOUR bald head, I certainly hope you wouldn&#39;t try to smite me with the wrath of gawd. Moreso, I hope that gawd wouldn&#39;t listen.
      See, that&#39;s a major flaw with your religion: Apparently your gawd listens to Elisha, and kills 42 innocent children by causing two bears to rip them to shreds, but he WONT listen to the prayers of millions of starving people in the world. Seems like he&#39;s got his priorities bungled somewhere.

      Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." (Numbers 31:17-18)[/b]
      Kill all the women and children, unless they&#39;re young virgins, in which case you can keep them for sex slaves. This particular bit is gawd commanding Moses: Again, it&#39;s hard to get more Christian than a prophet. And here he is, commanding us to kill everybody except the virgins, because they make nice plunder.

      And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him. (Leviticus 24:16)[/b]
      Here&#39;s a passage telling you that you really ought to be out stoning us atheists. And Christians who&#39;s tongue has ever slipped.

      Here&#39;s a small list of other things that you should kill people for:
      (9) For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him. (10) And the man that committeth adultery with another man&#39;s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour&#39;s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. (11) And the man that lieth with his father&#39;s wife hath uncovered his father&#39;s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. (12) And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. (13) If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. (14) And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. (15) And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. (16) And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them... (27) A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.[/b]
      And another classic:
      The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. (Psalms 58:10)[/b]
      So don&#39;t give me your "True Christian™" crap.
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      Many people seem to forget (or they simply just don&#39;t know for lack of reading the Bible) that before the New Testament only the Jews were considered God&#39;s people, thus the rest of human civilization, to God, were considered less equal. it wasn&#39;t until Jesus came that he made all men equal to one another, including the Jews. Yes, there have been several times in the Bible where the Jews were either commanded or used the power invested to them by God to kill or drive out other races of human civilization. this never ONCE happened in the New Testament, not one single time. why? because the bridge had been crossed, Jews and Gentiles were now equal. thou the Jews are still God&#39;s chosen people, they are no more important to God than anyone else in this world. the crusades, those were not Chrsitians, those were idiots, those were complete and absolute hyporytes. they were not commanded by God to kill anyone, they were commanded by the Church, full of selfish and greedy officials. the church isn&#39;t as powerful as it was back then today, so they are no longer able to pull of such a horrific stunt. nothing about the Crusades is Christian, neither is any other person SINCE THE NEW TESTAMENT who has killed or done wrong &#39;in the name of God&#39;.

      How can you tell me that those who flew the planes into the twin towers or chopped off the heads of people, or are STILL TO THIS VERY DAY killing hundreds of Christians (try some research on the sudanese [spl?] Christians); how can you tell those people are not true muslims? the muslims declared a Ji-had (spl?) which is a holy war, which means anything goes, including flyin planes into buildings and cutting off ppl&#39;s heads. that&#39;s part of their religion, and you can look it up in the Quran yourself. you won&#39;t find a single Christian who is true to the word of the Bible that would do as the muslims who are true to the word of Quran are doing right now, killing inocent Christians, and attacking nations (including their own) for power and control. i&#39;m not single handedly judging the muslims, as i said, not all of them are like this, but there are a group of them, several groups, who are and who would kill in a hearbeat and be justified by their religious text to do so, unlike the Christians. if a Christian kills in cold blood then they are guilty of murder, just like any other. they then have put down the name of Christ and the name of fellow Chrsitians who ARE living by the word.

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      Quote Originally Posted by cd27 View Post
      Many people seem to forget (or they simply just don&#39;t know for lack of reading the Bible) that before the New Testament only the Jews were considered God&#39;s people, thus the rest of human civilization, to God, were considered less equal. it wasn&#39;t until Jesus came that he made all men equal to one another, including the Jews. Yes, there have been several times in the Bible where the Jews were either commanded or used the power invested to them by God to kill or drive out other races of human civilization. this never ONCE happened in the New Testament, not one single time. why? because the bridge had been crossed, Jews and Gentiles were now equal. thou the Jews are still God&#39;s chosen people, they are no more important to God than anyone else in this world. the crusades, those were not Chrsitians, those were idiots, those were complete and absolute hyporytes. they were not commanded by God to kill anyone, they were commanded by the Church, full of selfish and greedy officials. the church isn&#39;t as powerful as it was back then today, so they are no longer able to pull of such a horrific stunt. nothing about the Crusades is Christian, neither is any other person SINCE THE NEW TESTAMENT who has killed or done wrong &#39;in the name of God&#39;.

      How can you tell me that those who flew the planes into the twin towers or chopped off the heads of people, or are STILL TO THIS VERY DAY killing hundreds of Christians (try some research on the sudanese [spl?] Christians); how can you tell those people are not true muslims? the muslims declared a Ji-had (spl?) which is a holy war, which means anything goes, including flyin planes into buildings and cutting off ppl&#39;s heads. that&#39;s part of their religion, and you can look it up in the Quran yourself. you won&#39;t find a single Christian who is true to the word of the Bible that would do as the muslims who are true to the word of Quran are doing right now, killing inocent Christians, and attacking nations (including their own) for power and control. i&#39;m not single handedly judging the muslims, as i said, not all of them are like this, but there are a group of them, several groups, who are and who would kill in a hearbeat and be justified by their religious text to do so, unlike the Christians. if a Christian kills in cold blood then they are guilty of murder, just like any other. they then have put down the name of Christ and the name of fellow Chrsitians who ARE living by the word.

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      Put it this way every faith has it&#39;s bad seed in some form of fashion. I like to actually see a True Christian somewhere on this Rock. All I see are Hypocrites’. So maybe it doesn&#39;t favor well in individuals who are supposed to be so Righteous on how Muslims express their faith, but Mockery plays on several different levels. It&#39;s not about just Murder, you have Pastors fondling little boys and you have Preachers getting their grove on with the church choir members. It seems like we put Murder at the top of all things being evil and there is no real weight to it when you Mock the Father in Heaven, it&#39;s no different. If you ask me a lot of individuals proclaiming righteousness are just as guilty the only difference is it&#39;s not as publicly known.

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      Quite true, quite true.



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      And the old testament still is in the offical bible, so &#39;true Christians&#39; should still follow it. Yet they don&#39;t.

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      take action? last i checked freedom of expression was still in the Bill of Rights/Ammendments. There is nothing you can do.

      Do you believe there should be freedom of speech and expression?

      And why focus on jesus&#39; death anyway? That is another thing that bugs me about most Christian sects. They focus more on the death of Jesus than what he taught. In my opinion, it is an intricate idea that began centuries ago to GUILT TRIP people into Christianity.

      Jesus "dying for your sins" means nothing. It doesnt give you a free ticket into heaven. Do what Jesus taught, and dont focus your faith on a morbid death.
      The truth is somewhere in the middle

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      Quote Originally Posted by Hard View Post
      And why focus on jesus&#39; death anyway? That is another thing that bugs me about most Christian sects. They focus more on the death of Jesus than what he taught. In my opinion, it is an intricate idea that began centuries ago to GUILT TRIP people into Christianity.

      Jesus "dying for your sins" means nothing. It doesnt give you a free ticket into heaven. Do what Jesus taught, and dont focus your faith on a morbid death.
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      you seem to miss the point. Jesus&#39; death is only one part, his ressurection is the most amazing part. so, in truth, he didn&#39;t &#39;die&#39;. and as i&#39;ve stated many times, "Jesus not only gave us a door into Heaven to spend eternity with God, but he gave us his life to spend the time here on this Earth with God. Jesus was the closest being on the Earth and in Heaven to God, he was closer to God than we&#39;d ever be, how much closer can we get by following Jesus&#39; life and teachings?"

      And no, we don&#39;t focus on Christ&#39;s death more than we do his teachings. reading the Bible and applying its values isn&#39;t just something we do once and a while, it&#39;s something we do everyday all day long...those &#39;things&#39; in the Bible are Jesus&#39; teachings (i.e. New Testament).

      Being a Christian isn&#39;t easy, no one ever said it was, yet many people think it is. Christianity has been around so long that the words that are used so often are well overused and have lost their meaning. When we hear the word &#39;saved&#39; it doesn&#39;t come with that same awesome power and joy that it used to. when we hear the word &#39;ressurection&#39; we don&#39;t have that same feeling of the power of God and his willingness to physically live a life for us and to die and then raise again for us, all for us. Many new Chritians claim to be christians but are no where close to being a Chritsian. i&#39;m not going to sit here and tell you what you have to do to be a Christian, but there is a way to act, and when you step out of those bounds, you don&#39;t just make yourself look bad, you make all of us look bad, and you make Jesus look bad, which is exactly what&#39;s happened in the past fifty years.

      Yea, there are lots of &#39;Christians&#39; who do things wrong, who mess with other women, who mess with kids, who do things that are wrong, but am i going to say they&#39;re not saved? no, that&#39;s not my decision, and it&#39;s not my place to say they aren&#39;t, am i going to say they&#39;re perfect? no. and i&#39;ll tell you right now, being a Christian DOESN&#39;T mean that you&#39;re perfect in any way, and those who think this (Both non-Christian and Christian alike) are sorely misinformed. the Bible speaks completely against that, in fact that is WHY Jesus died and rose again for us, because we were IMPERFECT, therefore keeping us out of Heaven because God, being perfect and Holy, cannot associate with sin and disobedience. God cannot commune with something that he exist completely against. The human race at one time WAS perfect, Adam and Eve, but they stepped out of bounds, which has sent us spiralling down into a pit of sin that we cannot get out of.

      Being a Christian means you GIVE UP your life and follow Jesus, you give up the things that are between you and God and you follow the teachings and life of Christ. no Christian can do this completely, and no Christian can be perfect. All a Christian can do is try, and try hard they must. we can&#39;t rely on our own strength, because it will fail us (i know, i&#39;ve lived it), you have to rely on God&#39;s strength, his power, and you have get rid of things that are disobedient to God. God&#39;s not trying to control your life, he&#39;s trying to make it better. you can choose not to follow Christ&#39;s teachings and not to accept Jesus&#39; gift of eternal life with God, or you can choose to accept his gift and follow his teachings with all your might and get as close to God as you can. you won&#39;t ever be perfect, and your life will be full of mistake after mistake and problem after problem, but these mistakes and problems are meant to teach us, for us to use them to get closer to God. we aren&#39;t meant to sit here and say "Oh look at me, i&#39;m a Christian and i&#39;m holy", no, because number one, that&#39;d be showing off, and number two, that&#39;d be a complete and utter lie.

      Christians are not perfect, and cannot be perfect, and those who think they are, they&#39;re lieing to themselves. now let&#39;s learn the definition of a hypocryte: Someone who acts like they are someone/something else that they are not. Christians who say, "I don&#39;t cuss" and then turn around and cuss, they are hypocrytes, but Christians who say, "I don&#39;t cuss" and accidentally make a slip up and pray to God to forgive them and ask those around them to forgive them, they are not hypocrytes, they are Christians.

      nothing negative about that. but the biggest part is that most Christians leave out section B of the situation. asking forgiveness is part A, part B is about repentence, or turning AWAY from our mistakes. it won&#39;t be easy, and it&#39;s often the hardest part of being a Christian, because we have to change the ways we LIVE and ACT completely, not just say i&#39;m sorry and keep making the same mistake over and over again. Does this mean a murderer should get away with murder? absolutely not, but whether you judge them or not isn&#39;t the matter, if this person asks God to forgive them and turns to God and away from their sin, they are forgive, nothing you can do about that. you can hang him, shoot him, let him rot in prison, but if he asks for forgivness and changes his ways and is saved and you aren&#39;t, you&#39;ll be the one facing God on judgment day, not him.

      cd
      <div align="center">But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
      Eph. 5:3-4 (NKJV)
      "Wisdom Does not come with Age, yet is Gained through life."-Eric Wright
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