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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 7/10/2008 10:51:49 AM   
miasma


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WWJD is exactly how we should live our lives. I think it'd make a great inscription. I just don't think it's appropiate it use it to make a buck.

I'm not presuming anything, just reading the Bible. Christ makes his feelings on exploitative consumerism, greed and selfishness pretty clear. You can't really think He'd be OK with the hyper-materialistic society America has become?
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 7/10/2008 9:28:57 PM   
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I'm not saying Jesus loves consumerism. I just highly doubt He is busy hating malls, WWJD bracelets, and crosses.

The problem is that most of us hate something, see the excess in it, and start declaring a word from the Lord. I see the same word of the Lord's coming down about drinking, women's clothing, whatever.

I'd be very happy to see any scriptures you have--not on greed or Jesus breaking up the temple sellers (which was about people cheating in the name of God)--but on Jesus hating the mall (the Marketplace He often frequented) and t-shirts, jewelry and large concerts.

I bothers me when we decide what God hates based on what bothers us.

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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 7/11/2008 1:52:30 PM   
miasma


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quote:

but on Jesus hating the mall (the Marketplace He often frequented) and t-shirts, jewelry and large concerts.




If you'll re-read the original comment, what it says He would hate is things that:

quote:

uses Christianity as a demographic/marketing tool.


Not piles of bricks with windows and pieces of cotton with pictures on them.

The objection is to:

quote:

exploitative consumerism, greed and selfishness


I don't know if you're deliberately playing devil's advocate/pretending to be obtuse/nit-picking to make a point, or trying to bait me into something, but I do know you're entirely too intelligent and knowledgable to expect me to show a Bible verse involving 20th century paraphenalia.
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