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Nom · 02-13-2004, 06:08 AM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...n_billboards_1

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Almost 18 percent of people who called themselves born-again Christians admitted visiting Internet porn sites, according to a 2000 survey of 1,031 adults by the evangelical group Focus on the Family. In a 2002 Pastors.com survey, more than 50 percent of responding pastors reported viewing pornography in the previous year

Y'know, when you think about it, it really explains a lot...

Jayjay · 02-13-2004, 07:50 AM

Perhaps they should call themselves "porn-again Christians"?

Starboy · 02-13-2004, 08:26 AM

I guess it all depends on what you call pornography. As far as I am concerned they are all porn addicts.

Starboy

Plognark · 02-13-2004, 08:29 AM

Stuff like this makes me feel good about not having the heavenly smite-stick hanging over my head when my hormones start raging. Poor sods.

Postcard73 · 02-13-2004, 10:30 AM

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more than 50 percent of responding pastors reported viewing pornography in the previous year

I went to a xian college, and my old roommate went on to become a Southern Baptist minister. He got fired from his first position because he got busted looking at porn on the computer in his office at the church!

Nom · 02-13-2004, 10:50 AM

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Originally posted by Plognark
Stuff like this makes me feel good about not having the heavenly smite-stick hanging over my head when my hormones start raging. Poor sods.

And that's the bottom line. Those hormones are gonna start raging; it's in our genes (no pun intended). Set that against a philosophy that says even masturbation is cause for eternal damnation, and bizarre neuroses become the least of your worries...

Bumble Bee Tuna · 02-13-2004, 11:23 AM

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Originally posted by Plognark
Stuff like this makes me feel good about not having the heavenly smite-stick hanging over my head when my hormones start raging. Poor sods.

I'm quite glad my heavenly smite-stick hangs where it's supposed to as well.

Deacon Doubtmonger · 02-13-2004, 11:53 AM

Oh, how this puts me in mind of George Carlin's classic gem about how you can get an idea of a person's character from the words he uses to argue (it's either on FM & AM or Class Clown). Remember his hypothetical politician's anti-porn speech?

"Our thrust is to prick holes in the stiff front erected by the smut dealers. We must keep mounting an offensive so we can penetrate any crack in his defenses. We want him hung and we want fast action, so we can lay to rest his dominant position. Let's get on him! Let's ram through a stiff bail law, so it'll be hard for him to get it up! We've got to come together so we can whip this thing into submission! IT'LL BE HARD ON US, BUT WE CAN'T LICK IT BY BEING SOFT!!!"

Aravnah Ornan · 02-13-2004, 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by Plognark
Stuff like this makes me feel good about not having the heavenly smite-stick hanging over my head when my hormones start raging. Poor sods.

Especially when the Deity wielding the heavenly smite-stick would be the same Intelligent Designer Who had put those hormones there in the first place. I wonder how many of them are into BDSM; it's a good fit with their faith.

Greger · 02-13-2004, 05:51 PM

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Originally posted by Jayjay
Perhaps they should call themselves "porn-again Christians"?

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Jayjay Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Finland Posts: 6,261	Perhaps they should call themselves "porn-again Christians"?

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Starboy Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Tallahassee, FL Reality Adventurer Posts: 5,276	I guess it all depends on what you call pornography. As far as I am concerned they are all porn addicts. Starboy

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Plognark Contributor Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 14,952	Stuff like this makes me feel good about not having the heavenly smite-stick hanging over my head when my hormones start raging. Poor sods.

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Deacon Doubtmonger Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Level 6, Inside a Burning Tomb Posts: 1,494	Oh, how this puts me in mind of George Carlin's classic gem about how you can get an idea of a person's character from the words he uses to argue (it's either on FM & AM or Class Clown). Remember his hypothetical politician's anti-porn speech? "Our thrust is to prick holes in the stiff front erected by the smut dealers. We must keep mounting an offensive so we can penetrate any crack in his defenses. We want him hung and we want fast action, so we can lay to rest his dominant position. Let's get on him! Let's ram through a stiff bail law, so it'll be hard for him to get it up! We've got to come together so we can whip this thing into submission! IT'LL BE HARD ON US, BUT WE CAN'T LICK IT BY BEING SOFT!!!"

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