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Mandatory Wednesday Malloy Truthseeker Check In!! Church Night!!Gods and Monsters
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Church Night, Truthseekers!
Did you know monster energy drinks were tools of Satan? Well, just look at the name! It’s a monster, right? And the logo looks like a demonic claw mark, so . . . . obviously the beastly brew is actually the devil’s attempt to infiltrate Christian homes.
Raw Story has more:
WATCH: Christian woman explains that Monster Energy drinks are the ‘work of Satan’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/watch-christian-woman-explains-that-monster-energy-drinks-are-the-work-of-satan/
In a viral video elaborating upon a long-held belief by some Christians that Monster Energy drinks are somehow affiliated with the work of Satan, a woman explains the clues the manufacturer of the popular energy-boosting drink have hidden on the can.
Beginning with breaks in the letter ‘M,’ the woman explains that it symbolizes the Hebrew letter vav — the sixth letter in the Hebrew alphabet — as she maintains that the three now-broken bars of the ‘m’ stand for 666, the Sign of the Beast. She later notes how this ties in with the drink’s advertising slogan: Unleash the beast.
Turning to the ‘o’ in the word ‘monster’ she draws attention to a cross piercing it and poses the question as to what Christ, as symbolized by the cross, has to do with an energy drink company. She then notes that the can has the letters ‘BFC’ at the base which she explains stands for “Big f*cking can,” while she draws attention to to size of the 24 fl. oz can
After displaying the bulk packaging for the drinks, she notes the promotional copy which states, “MILF’s dig it, and you will too,” before concluding, “This is not a Christian company.”
She goes on to state that the manufacturers are using the popularity of the highly-caffeinated drinks to enter into Christian homes.“This is how clever Satan is. And how he gets into the Christan home, and a Christian’s life, and it breaks God’s heart,” she explains.
Oh no, God is heartbroken because we’re slurping demonic energy drinks. This poor dear has been listening to too many backwards Beetles albums.
Is the Lord also crestfallen about Mozilla’s Chrome Browser? GASP – our computers are carrying demon seeds! We knew the NSA was buried in our hard drives, but Beelzebub, too?
I remember the campaign to boycott Proctor and Gamble products in the 1980’s because the moon and stars logo was purportedly another one of Satan’s signatures.
I’ve often wondered about the kooks who see spooky symbols hiding everywhere (Glenn Beck comes to mind), be they the Holy Virgin in a piece of toast, or Jesus on a billboard advertising spaghetti and meatballs, or Satan in a soft drink, why do they think these powerful supernatural beings need to stoop to such mortal lows as to engage the advertisers in their magical works?
Why would God – or Satan – need graphic artists and copy writers to deliver their metaphysical messages? Why not a thunderbolt, or a rain of fire and brimstone, or burning bush, a seven-headed beast, or fiery wheel in the sky? Or at least a vomiting Linda Blair . . . . heck, even Mel Gibson?
Ah, we are not to understand the mind of God, or the tools of the Dark One either. But we can join together on a thrilling theme-park ride that celebrates the power of the Almighty, can’t we? Find Jesus on the great Ferris Wheel in the sky? Ken Ham, the creative Christian genius behind the Creation Museum is praying you will.
Ham has plans for a Christian Theme park based on Noah’s Ark. Wouldn’t that be a zoo? Sadly, God has not blessed his plans by anointing him with sufficient riches to breathe life into his dream. Uh-oh, did Ham do something to fall out of favor? Slate offers this:
For a man who constantly touts his plans to build a creationist empire in the United States, Ken Ham is surprisingly bad at his job. The professional charlatan’s greatest success, his mind-boggling Creation Museum, faces a serious decline in attendance. His next boondoggle, a Noah’s Ark–themed creationist amusement park, was so woefully underfunded that Ham began selling junk bonds to keep it from going under. Initial construction on the dramatically scaled-back “ark park” is barely underway. And now Ham has already run into legal trouble. His utterly predictable offense? Using taxpayer money to discriminate on the basis of religion.
The trouble began when the park, officially called Ark Encounter, listed its employment opportunities in August. Nestled among the requirements for all job applicants were three troubling obligatory documents: “Salvation testimony,” “Creation belief statement,” and a “Confirmation of your agreement with the AiG statement of faith.” (AiG is Answers in Genesis, Ham’s ministry and Ark Encounter’s parent company.) These first two requirements are problematic enough: The park is quite openly instructing all applicants to pledge that they personally believe in creationist Christianity. If an applicant has other beliefs, her application to Ark Encounter isn’t welcome.
But the third requirement is far, far worse. AiG’s statement of faith is no mere loyalty oath: It’s a four-part theological declaration mandating that all signatories accept dozens of fundamentalist Christian principles. Employees at Ark Encounter don’t just have to believe in God; they have to believe in Christ, the Holy Spirit, Satan (as “the personal spiritual adversary of both God and mankind”), Adam and Eve, “the Great Flood of Genesis,” a 6,000-year-old Earth, and the eternal damnation of “those who do not believe in Christ.” All employees must follow “the duty of Christians” and attend “a local Bible believing church.” Just for good measure, employees must oppose abortion, euthanasia, gay rights, and trans rights.
Were Ark Encounter merely a ministry, the First Amendment would protect its discriminatory employment practices. If it were a privately funded company with an explicitly religious purpose, the law might still permit it to hire based on its prejudices. But Ark Encounter isn’t privately funded; the citizens of Kentucky have been roped into paying for it, whether they like it or not. Earlier this year, Kentucky’s Tourism Development Finance Authority gave preliminary support for $18.25 million in tax credits for Ark Encounter, citing Ham’s promise that the project would create 600 to 700 jobs. And that’s just for the first phase of construction; ultimately, the state could grant Ark Encounter up to $73 million in tax breaks.
Wisely, the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, which oversees the dispersal of tax incentives, halted its funding after it saw Ark Encounter’s employment application. Bob Stewart, secretary of the cabinet, wrote to Ham that “the Commonwealth does not provide incentives to any company that discriminates on the basis of religion and we will not make any exception for Ark Encounter, LLC.”
Once again, wouldn’t an all-powerful deity just make a magic rainbow in the sky and- poof – rain down some manna for Ham’s Ark Park? No? Why is God forcing Ham to run a scam?
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Hi cal04. Hello Everyone.
Thanks for the kittehs.
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they are adorable
What kittehs! Must snorgle. 
It ended up on the dinner table. 
LOVE church lady
