Subject:
|
Re: One more reason why I'm refusing to shop in Wal*Mart
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Wed, 7 May 2003 09:14:46 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
168 times
|
| |
|
|
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
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
Message is in Reply To:
24 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
