cydonia

I'm sure most of you are probably familiar with TBN, trinity broadcasting network. Being a totally weird 26 year old I was hoping to find some neat cartoons like I used to watch as a child, but these exist no longer.

But TBN has filled the void. To me, the messages in these kid programs are sickening. Teaching children at the youngest age to be brainwashed, with cute songs helping the process. Kids have no ability to really think for themselves at such a young age. And they get no chance to. "We are Jesus' sheep, and we listen to his voice" says a CG animated little angel boy character. A story about sheep and playing follow the leader. Sheeps singing and jumping and loving the Lord. It's disgusting.

It's hard to unbrainwash yourself. And I think of my niece and nephews, young kids who will be brought up this way by fundamentalist parents. Only now can I even watch a jesus-kiddie cartoon and not feel guilty for mocking the Lord. They will be brought up the way I was, and it's not fair to them.

This really just makes me sick.

CaptainOfOuterSpace

I agree entirely. We can only hope that your niece and nephews will be strong-minded enough to follow your example.

Spaz

Lol, everything on those channels makes me sick. I think there are two jesus channels here (not counting PAX, which is semi-jesus) and they're mostly preaching. One of them has a game show for teenagers or somethin with bible trivia, it's hilarious because they have all this jesus merchandise that they advertise before the commercial breaks ya know, jesus shirts and shoes and all kinds of shit. Nothing like profiting off religion eh?

lpetrich

In effect, a "Christian" version of mainstream culture, just like so many other fundie things, nowadays.

I keep on wondering when the "Christian porn" will come out.

AquaVita

I can see the titles now..

"The second coming"

"On bended knee"

"The Ejaculate conception"

Muffinstuffer

*LOL* I decline to comment on the Christian porn thing.

As far as TBN goes, trust me, it ain't just non-Christians who find it offensive. Every time I flip past it and see that purple haired woman sitting in a golden chair with lots of rings on....hmm, it just sort of turns my stomach.

And you know something? I can honestly say that the place on this Earth where I've seen the largest amount of 'riches' gathered in one place, was the Vatican. It was ridiculous. You've never SEEN so much gold/silver/jade/burnished wood, etc. All this from an institution professing to be THE institution of a Man who said that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter Heaven.

Lobstrosity

Well I know back in the day rich men could buy their way into heaven. The Vatican actually sold "get into Heaven free" passes, but they cost quite a bit.

sphinx wui

i have it on disk from a site called stupid Jesus tricks.


NSTRUCTION AND ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE On the Conduct and Procedure of the Intimate and Personal Relationships of the Marriage State for the Greater Spiritual Sanctity of this Blessed Sacrament and the Glory of God by Ruth Smythers beloved wife of The Reverend L.D. Smythers Pastor of the Arcadian Methodist Church of the Eastern Regional Conference Published in the year of our Lord 1894 Spiritual Guidance Press New York City

INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE
FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE

To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and most terrifying day of her life. On the positive side, there is the wedding itself, in which the bride is the central attraction in a beautiful and inspiring ceremony, symbolizing her triumph in securing a male to provide for all her needs for the rest of her life. On the negative side, there is the wedding night, during which the bride must pay the piper, so to speak, by facing for the first time the terrible experience of sex.

At this point, dear reader, let me concede one shocking truth. Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure! Beware such an attitude! A selfish and sensual husband can easily take advantage of such a bride. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.

On the other hand, the bride's terror need not be extreme. While sex is at best revolting and at worse rather painful, it has to be endured, and has been by women since the beginning of time, and is compensated for by the monogamous home and by the children produced through it.

It is useless, in most cases, for the bride to prevail upon the groom to forego the sexual initiation. While the ideal husband would be one who would approach his bride only at her request and only for the purpose of begetting offspring, such nobility and unselfishness cannot be expected from the average man.

Most men, if not denied, would demand sex almost every day. The wise bride will permit a maximum of two brief sexual experiences weekly during the first months of marriage. As time goes by she should make every effort to reduce this frequency. Feigned illness, sleepiness, and headaches are among the wife's best friends in this matter. Arguments, nagging, scolding, and bickering also prove very effective, if used in the late evening about an hour before the husband would normally commence his seduction.

Clever wives are ever on the alert for new and better methods of denying and discouraging the amorous overtures of the husband. A good wife should expect to have reduced sexual contacts to once a week by the end of the first year of marriage and to once a month by the end of the fifth year of marriage.

By their tenth anniversary many wives have managed to complete their child bearing and have achieved the ultimate goal of terminating all sexual contacts with the husband. By this time she can depend upon his love for the children and social pressures to hold the husband in the home.

Just as she should be ever alert to keep the quantity of sex as low as possible, the wise bride will pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of sexual contacts. Most men are by nature rather perverted, and if given half a chance, would engage in quite a variety of the most revolting practices. These practices include among others performing the normal act in abnormal positions; mouthing the female body; and offering their own vile bodies to be mouthed in turn.

Nudity, talking about sex, reading stories about sex, viewing photographs and drawings depicting or suggesting sex are the obnoxious habits the male is likely to acquire if permitted. A wise bride will make it the goal never to allow her husband to see her unclothed body, and never allow him to display his unclothed body to her. Sex, when it cannot be prevented, should be practiced only in total darkness. Many women have found it useful to have thick cotton nightgowns for themselves and pajamas for their husbands. These should be donned in separate rooms. They need not be removed during the sex act. Thus, a minimum of flesh is exposed.

Once the bride has donned her gown and turned off all the lights, she should lie quietly upon the bed and await her groom. When he comes groping into the room she should make no sound to guide him in her direction, lest he take this as a sign of encouragement. She should let him grope in the dark. There is always the hope that he will stumble and incur some slight injury which she can use as an excuse to deny him sexual access.

When he finds her, the wife should lie as still as possible. Bodily motion on her part could be interpreted as sexual excitement by the optimistic husband.

If he attempts to kiss her on the lips she should turn her head slightly so that the kiss falls harmlessly on her cheek instead. If he attempts to kiss her hand, she should make a fist. If he lifts her gown and attempts to kiss her anyplace else she should quickly pull the gown back in place, spring from the bed, and announce that nature calls her to the toilet. This will generally dampen his desire to kiss in the forbidden territory.

If the husband attempts to seduce her with lascivious talk, the wise wife will suddenly remember some trivial non-sexual question to ask him. Once he answers she should keep the conversation going, no matter how frivolous it may seem at the time. Eventually, the husband will learn that if he insists on having sexual contact, he must get on with it without amorous embellishment.

The wise wife will allow him to pull the gown up no farther than the waist, and only permit him to open the front of his pajamas to thus make connection. She will be absolutely silent or babble about her housework while he's huffing and puffing away. Above all, she will lie perfectly still and never under any circumstances grunt or groan while the act is in progress.

As soon as the husband has completed the act, the wise wife will start nagging him about various minor tasks she wishes him to perform on the morrow. Many men obtain a major portion of their sexual satisfaction from the peaceful exhaustion immediately after the act is over. Thus the wife must insure that there is no peace in this period for him to enjoy. Otherwise, he might be encouraged to soon try for more.

One heartening factor for which the wife can be grateful is the fact that the husband's home, school, church, and social environment have been working together all through his life to instill in him a deep sense of guilt in regards to his sexual feelings, so that he comes to the marriage couch apologetically and filled with shame, already half cowed and subdued. The wise wife seizes upon this advantage and relentlessly pursues her goal first to limit, later to annihilate completely her husband's desire for sexual expression."


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Omar

cydonia

oh, man.

Sassenach

What does it mean if that kind of turned me on?