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Re: One more reason why I'm refusing to shop in Wal*Mart
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Wed, 7 May 2003 09:14:46 GMT
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A search for "Wal*Mart" & "Christians" led me to this:

Like Jesus in the Temple, Furious Pastor Flips Display Tables and Destroys an
Entire Wal-Mart
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0503/damning.html
[it may offend some readers]

Scott A


In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/06/news/companies/walmart_mags/index.htm
> 
> "
> The Times said that the company's standards and the magazines' content have
> not changed, but the firm has been under pressure from Christian groups in
> the past for its sale of certain magazines.
> "
> 
> Another reason why these "Christians" are not my idea of Christianity.  I
> was looking for an opportune time to throw in a Sorkin quote, and here it is...
> 
> "...It was very easy for me to think, as it is very
> easy for a lot of people to think..., that most often
> one should be suspicious of [religion]. That most often
> it's an instrument of hypocrisy or, worse yet, of bullying:
> 'You're not living your life the way I would have you live it,
> the way God would have you live it. Therefore, God is going to
> punish you; you are somehow less in God's eyes.' Obviously, that
> kind of thing is insidious and terrible."
>              - Aaron Sorkin - Executive Producer - The West Wing
> 
> 
> Hey you pseudo-Christians--Go back to your Bible and read the *entire*
> thing--don't go admonishing others about their lack of values when you are
> supposedly professing to be Christian and not getting that you're not
> suppose to do that--You're all Pharisees! To you I say, "Take a
> seat"--You're not helping.
> 
> And to Wal*Mart, who succumbs to this type of 'peer-pressure'--well, your
> decision--my decision is to not shop where I'm going to be 'protected' from
> life.
> 
> Dave K



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(...) Why post stupid things like that? You leave the impression that that actually occured. JOHN (24 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(URL) Times said that the company's standards and the magazines' content have not changed, but the firm has been under pressure from Christian groups in the past for its sale of certain magazines. " Another reason why these "Christians" are not my (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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