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Jesus is the work of Satan, so it's right that they did this. Also, Joy Behar is a big loud fat balloonhead woman with a big fat balloon for a head. And she is loud.
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BWC
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How do you sign? How do you get past the ads?
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Both sides have waaaaaaaayyyyy too much time on their hands.
ABC wasted its' time editing out the "Jesus".
People are boring enough to catch that mistake, and wrote a response on it.
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BWC, there isn't a link to the petition from Snopes. In my opinion, there isn't much of a reason for there to be a petition at all other than Jerry Falwell getting his Holy Boxers in a bunch again. ABC bleeps out "Jesus Christ" and its derivatives when it feels that it is being used in a profane manner. The censors obviously felt that this was one such case (although I disagree with that view, I can understand the rationale... somewhat). It's not ABC going anti-Jesus, it was a rather oversensitive attempt to protect His good name.
Oh, and Snopes is notoriously bad about those pop-up ads. Yuck.
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Da_bang80
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Jeez, all this religous crap now adays, with the thinb about the pledge in america, makes me glad i'm total athiest. Anyways what's the deal censuring out "Jesus"? it's not like his name is some swear word. It's just a name.
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Huh. That's much the same reaction I get from my mother and grandmother when I say "Judas Priest" in front of them. It's immediately followed by:
"Christopher! Don't curse!" "What!? All I said was Judas Priest!" "Jesus knows what you're saying!" "Then he must agree with me that they were a kickin' band since I haven't been struck by lightning yet!"
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The funny part is that no-one who is venerated by Christians was ever named "Jesus", or anything sounding remotely like it.
And any appeals to Exodus 20 don't work either. How can the supposed "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain" refer to Jesus in any way when it actually translates to "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your god in vain"? Just because all those "the Lord"s are scattered throughout the bible, that doesn't mean the original document wasn't very specific about naming which "lord" was being talked about.
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quote:And any appeals to Exodus 20 don't work either. How can the supposed "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain" refer to Jesus in any way when it actually translates to "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your god in vain"? Just because all those "the Lord"s are scattered throughout the bible, that doesn't mean the original document wasn't very specific about naming which "lord" was being talked about.
tell that to Falwell, may he get a homocide bombing up the ass.
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At least it'll unbunch his Holy Boxers.
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Shik
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At times like this, I think it's usually a good idea to quote The Mole.
"'GOD?' He is the biggest bitch of them ALL...!!" "WHY? Because God HATES me, that's why! He has made my life a living HELL!! So I call him a cocksucking ASSHOLE!" *coughcough* "Where is your God NOW, eh? Where is your beautiful merciful FAGGOT when you need him? C'mon God...come & GET me, you fucking rat bastard!"
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