This week on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" on HBO Larry David's Character "accidentally" urinates on a portrait of Jesus. Later in the episode a woman mistakes the urine for tears and thinks she's witnessing a miracle. Not since " The Anti- Jesus Campaign" in the early 90's has there been such an outrageous form of public blasphemy. There is a part of me that rejoices; however, because we know that we should expect this from the hateful non-believer as we approach end-times also.
My goal is to get the word out to as many Christians as possible, so that we can vote with our dollars, cancel our subscriptions to HBO and send a clear message that Christians won't be mocked and insulted without repercussions.
I would also like to start a letter writing campaign to make the voice of the Christian heard by the executives at HBO. If you would like to participate, you can do so, the contact info is below:
HBO Consumer Affairs at 212-512-1208 between 9am and 5pm, Monday through Friday.
HBO Consumer Affairs
1100 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
I don't know to whose attention you send the letter, but if they receive enough letters, they will get the point. Also, if the letters are hand written they tend to be far more effective than typed.
Join me in this battle. This is spiritual warfare and it's time to use the sword of God's word and engage. With hate crimes legislation just passing illegitimately yesterday also, it's only a matter of time before it will be a crime to speak the truth of God's Word.
God bless you all!!!
Last edited by Forealzchola; 2nd November 2009 at 05:44 PM.
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hmmm if your goal is to put more money in HBO's pocket that's probably what will be accomplished by doing this.
tulc(just thought that should be pointed out)
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Meh, I think these so-called blasphemies show up more the daftness of dogma more than anything else, like thinking images of God (which, I'd like to remind people, are not exactly what we're supposed to be glorifying) can cry.
This sounds equivalent to the bit in Angela's Ashes where Frank is sick on the day of his first communion and proceeds to throw up in his grandmother's yard after the ceremony - he's then promptly beaten for throwing up Jesus on the ground.
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The fact that there is an outrage over this just makes the bit that much funnier.
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Unreal... The lack of outrage makes me sicker than the bit. This is clearly not a place to communicate with real Christians. We (real Christians) are called to be light in the darkness, if you want to continue in the darkness and label yourselves Christians, your reward will come. There was a time Christians were willing to take a stand for Christ. You fools stand for yourselves! It is this type of Christianity that makes those of us who love the Lord get the label hypocrite. I will pray for you, but I doubt it will do any good....
Unreal... The lack of outrage makes me sicker than the bit. This is clearly not a place to communicate with real Christians. We (real Christians) are called to be light in the darkness, if you want to continue in the darkness and label yourselves Christians, your reward will come. There was a time Christians were willing to take a stand for Christ. You fools stand for yourselves! It is this type of Christianity that makes those of us who love the Lord get the label hypocrite. I will pray for you, but I doubt it will do any good....
You are just as bad as the Taliban. You want us to get furious over someone pretending to pee on the almost certainty inaccurate PICTURE of Jesus?
It is comedy, get over it. Even if he was REALLY wiping his butt with the bible it is still just a piece of paper. Could you really see the prince of peace getting that angry over this? Jesus was a pretty mellow guy most of the time.
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War is God's was of teaching Americans geography.
-Unknown
You are just as bad as the Taliban. You want us to get furious over someone pretending to pee on the almost certainty inaccurate PICTURE of Jesus?
It is comedy, get over it. Even if he was REALLY wiping his butt with the bible it is still just a piece of paper. Could you really see the prince of peace getting that angry over this? Jesus was a pretty mellow guy most of the time.
Getting annoyed at an extremely insulting joke towards something you hold most dear -----> you're on the same level as an oppressive, authoritarian government run by terrorists.
Clearly, one and the same.
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I'll never forget the day I turned on Sunday morning television to find three of the most beautiful and glamorous women kicking tooshies and taking names....Charlie's Angels made me glorify in my blooming womanhood. I blew out my blond mane, reached for my bell bottoms and glossed my lips before strutting around singing I Am Woman Hear Me Roar and thanking God for giving me a vagina.
Not until today has a trio illuminated my existence quite like Charlies Angels....but here we have tulc, Cabal and ThankGod.....the new three wisemen.....infusing this thread with such glory and light that the OP pulled out the True Christian(TM) card in a few posts. I now want to blow out my now artifically blonde locks, pull on my cross necklace, gloss my lips and go strut around singing My God is an Awesome God and thanking God for giving them such insight.
Thanks guys....you made my day.
And thanks OP for reminding me to pay my cable bill so I don't have to go without my HBO. I used to have it just for Bill Mahr but now I need to keep it for it's courage.
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I'll never forget the day I turned on Sunday morning television to find three of the most beautiful and glamorous women kicking tooshies and taking names....Charlie's Angels made me glorify in my blooming womanhood. I blew out my blond mane, reached for my bell bottoms and glossed my lips before strutting around singing I Am Woman Hear Me Roar and thanking God for giving me a vagina.
Not until today has a trio illuminated my existence quite like Charlies Angels....but here we have tulc, Cabal and ThankGod.....the new three wisemen.....infusing this thread with such glory and light that the OP pulled out the True Christian(TM) card in a few posts. I now want to blow out my now artifically blonde locks, pull on my cross necklace, gloss my lips and go strut around singing My God is an Awesome God and thanking God for giving them such insight.
Thanks guys....you made my day.
And thanks OP for reminding me to pay my cable bill so I don't have to go without my HBO. I used to have it just for Bill Mahr but now I need to keep it for it's courage.
Hey now, don't forget Dark_Lite! 4 wise men here ftw.
Originally Posted by Dark_Lite
Getting annoyed at an extremely insulting joke towards something you hold most dear -----> you're on the same level as an oppressive, authoritarian government run by terrorists.
Clearly, one and the same.
Clearly you've never seeing "Peeing on Jesus" on Al-Jazeera.
(For those unaware that this is a joke....yeah, it's a joke.)
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Unreal... The lack of outrage makes me sicker than the bit.
So does that mean we get petitioned now, or what?
This is clearly not a place to communicate with real Christians.
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We (real Christians) are called to be light in the darkness, if you want to continue in the darkness and label yourselves Christians, your reward will come. There was a time Christians were willing to take a stand for Christ.
And we still are. Because quite frankly, Curb Your Enthusiasm is really not on the same scale as things like world hunger.
You fools stand for yourselves! It is this type of Christianity that makes those of us who love the Lord get the label hypocrite.
Far from it, actually.
Want to know what sort of labels you get for being exceedingly oversensitive and for thinking pictures of WASP-Jesus can cry?
If you set your dogma to silly levels like crying pictures and transubstantiation, you're far more likely to have them trodden on by people. Is that their fault or yours?
I will pray for you, but I doubt it will do any good....
Yeah, it's not like God's omnipotent or anything.
Oh wait.
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