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Pyro or Porno - which is worse?
#9116514 - 10/22/08 03:56 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Florida Church Burns X-Rated Film Reels
Members of Christ Church Anglican in Jacksonville, Fla., unravel X-rated films and gather them in a pornography-burning ceremony Sunday. The aim, says pastor Mark Eldredge, was to move land the church recently bought from "unholy to holy."
Members of Christ Church Anglican in Jacksonville, Fla., gathered Sunday for an unusual religious ceremony that involved torching X-rated old movies in a fire pit.
The 300-member congregation recently bought the former Playtime Drive-In movie theater to develop as their meeting place, and it held a bit of a surprise for staff members when they closed on the sale: cases and cases of pornography from the 1970s and 1980s.
"Obviously, we knew the right thing to do would be to destroy it, and not let it ever be out on the market, so to speak," senior pastor Mark Eldredge tells NPR's Melissa Block.
So the congregation gathered up the movie reels, unraveled the movie tape and hung it over the sides of the pit, poured lighter fluid on it and set it on fire. The Jacksonville fire department oversaw the ceremony, which Eldredge jokingly referred to as the "holy water hose-down."
The aim was to "consecrate that land as new holy ground for our church," Eldredge says.
The ceremony was a symbolic measure for the congregation, "a sign of moving from that past and taking the land from unholy to holy," Eldredge says.
"What are we going to do with pornography?" he says. "You certainly don't want anyone to ever look at that."
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Icelander
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Depends on if you sniff the fumes.
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Sleepwalker
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The world unholy is pretty heavy to apply to porn.
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: Sleepwalker]
#9116549 - 10/22/08 04:00 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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I get it.
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: Icelander]
#9116552 - 10/22/08 04:00 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Don't you dare get my thread closed, you - you - flamer, you!
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: Sleepwalker]
#9116579 - 10/22/08 04:04 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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I hope they burned a truckload of Bibles as well. Did you know that a passage from the Bible was once banned as pornographic (in Denmark?) before the censors discovered the source?
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The bible is pretty gritty.
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so tthey bought the porn right?
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OrgoneConclusion said: Don't you dare get my thread closed, you - you - flamer, you!
           I hope V don't ban me for flamin like this.
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: nonwo]
#9116611 - 10/22/08 04:08 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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I can see the headlines now:
"Tax-exempt church funds used to purchase pornography"
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: nonwo]
#9116647 - 10/22/08 04:13 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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nonwo said: so tthey bought the porn right?
Yup. And they could have sold the films to help the poor with the proceeds, but that would be a rational act.
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so they funded the next big porno and kept a porn store open for business these Christan's are clever
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OrgoneConclusion said: The 300-member congregation recently bought the former Playtime Drive-In movie theater to develop as their meeting place, and it held a bit of a surprise for staff members when they closed on the sale: cases and cases of pornography from the 1970s and 1980s.
"Obviously, we knew the right thing to do would be to destroy it, and not let it ever be out on the market, so to speak,"
To be fair, porn from the 80s is pretty bad.
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: zouden]
#9116739 - 10/22/08 04:25 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes, it clearly fell under the category of "community service" to eliminate 70's and 80's porn.
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: Veritas]
#9116747 - 10/22/08 04:26 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Behind the Green Door
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: Icelander]
#9116755 - 10/22/08 04:27 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sorry, hon, but it was lame.
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: Icelander]
#9116758 - 10/22/08 04:28 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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80's porn was awsome when i was 13 what ever happend to bellie necklasses
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: Veritas]
#9116881 - 10/22/08 04:44 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Veritas said: Sorry, hon, but it was lame.
Not when you're repressed and 18
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: Icelander]
#9116918 - 10/22/08 04:50 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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18?! Damn - and I am only 11.
Oh wait, you were talking years... nevermind.
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You made me laugh Swami.
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OrgoneConclusion said: I hope they burned a truckload of Bibles as well. Did you know that a passage from the Bible was once banned as pornographic (in Denmark?) before the censors discovered the source?
Was it this one?
23:1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. 3 They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms [1] handled. 4 Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
5 “Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors 6 clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. 7 She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted. 8 She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her. 9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. 10 These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.
11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister [2] in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. 12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. 14 But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, 15 wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. 16 When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust. 18 When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. 19 Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt 20 and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. 21 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed [3] your young breasts.”
22 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side: 23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. 24 And they shall come against you from the north [4] with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments. 25 And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire. 26 They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels. 27 Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.
28 “For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust, 29 and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring 30 have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols. 31 You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand. 32 Thus says the Lord God:
“You shall drink your sister's cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much; 33 you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria; 34 you shall drink it and drain it out, and gnaw its shards, and tear your breasts;
for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. 35 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.”
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Porno for Pyros was awesome
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Re: Pyro or Porno - which is worse? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#9118414 - 10/22/08 09:36 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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WhiskeyClone said: Porno for Pyros was awesome
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