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> <channel><title>Comments on: A Dirty Tampon by the Side of the Road</title> <atom:link href="http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/02/a-dirty-tampon-by-the-side-of-the-road.html/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/02/a-dirty-tampon-by-the-side-of-the-road.html</link> <description>Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America</description> <lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:37:15 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>By: Ashton Stevens</title><link>http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/02/a-dirty-tampon-by-the-side-of-the-road.html#comment-44967</link> <dc:creator>Ashton Stevens</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 15:03:33 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/02/a-dirty-tampon-by-the-side-of-the-road.html#comment-44967</guid> <description>Thank you Leta. Excellent comment.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Leta. Excellent comment.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Ashton Stevens</title><link>http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/02/a-dirty-tampon-by-the-side-of-the-road.html#comment-44966</link> <dc:creator>Ashton Stevens</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 12:58:23 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/02/a-dirty-tampon-by-the-side-of-the-road.html#comment-44966</guid> <description>Miss, reading your post here has made it clear to me that you are deeply confused spiritually. I will pray for you. I fear you have lost touch with the meaning of Christ&#039;s mission on earth. You are JUDGING people. Are you really so confident in your own righteousness that you do not fear the warnings of Matthew 7 : 1-5 ? Do you not know that the words you have written here on the web can only influence your brothers and sisters to seek lives littered with intolerance for humanity?
I am begging you. Please search your heart and find the forgiveness and tolerance that god has placed there. Stop losing sleep and stressing yourself out. You are wasting energy that could be better spent loving and caring for each other. You are contributing to the very lack of spirituality which you criticize. In the time you spent writing this hate speech you could have planned something special and exciting for you and your son to do together.
Let God do God&#039;s job so that you can focus on doing your job. Remember to read your Bible for guidance before you post proclamations and religious doctrines. Re-read Job 38 and consider the questions that God asks Job. Can you answer them without help? Be wary of preaching without the force of God&#039;s word to support your own. Perhaps instead of killing yourself attempting to discern the reason why our world is the way it is, you can redirect your gifts towards planning ahead for the inevitable &quot;birds and the bees&quot; talk with your child. I hope that once you have prepared a plan you won&#039;t dread the idea as much.
God bless and good luck!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Miss, reading your post here has made it clear to me that you are deeply confused spiritually. I will pray for you. I fear you have lost touch with the meaning of Christ&#8217;s mission on earth. You are JUDGING people. Are you really so confident in your own righteousness that you do not fear the warnings of Matthew 7 : 1-5 ? Do you not know that the words you have written here on the web can only influence your brothers and sisters to seek lives littered with intolerance for humanity?</p><p>I am begging you. Please search your heart and find the forgiveness and tolerance that god has placed there. Stop losing sleep and stressing yourself out. You are wasting energy that could be better spent loving and caring for each other. You are contributing to the very lack of spirituality which you criticize. In the time you spent writing this hate speech you could have planned something special and exciting for you and your son to do together.</p><p>Let God do God&#8217;s job so that you can focus on doing your job. Remember to read your Bible for guidance before you post proclamations and religious doctrines. Re-read Job 38 and consider the questions that God asks Job. Can you answer them without help? Be wary of preaching without the force of God&#8217;s word to support your own. Perhaps instead of killing yourself attempting to discern the reason why our world is the way it is, you can redirect your gifts towards planning ahead for the inevitable &#8220;birds and the bees&#8221; talk with your child. I hope that once you have prepared a plan you won&#8217;t dread the idea as much.</p><p>God bless and good luck!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Onward, Forward, Toward...</title><link>http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/02/a-dirty-tampon-by-the-side-of-the-road.html#comment-35229</link> <dc:creator>Onward, Forward, Toward...</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:17:23 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/02/a-dirty-tampon-by-the-side-of-the-road.html#comment-35229</guid> <description>Dan:
Very insightful article as usual.  What you stated is 100% true
I thought about this article for a couple of days because in my part of the country, you would be very surprised at who would be the culprits that would throw out used condoms and dirty tampons from their car windows...
Christians
We got the Christians who are so &#039;rapture-ready&#039; that they believe that Jesus will take them away before the environmental consequences of the dirty condoms/tampons take place. So why care?
We got Christians who believe that not littering is &#039;a hippy thing&#039; and according to them, all hippies are into environmentalism, pagan gods, legalization of drugs, etc. they will show their &#039;separatist&#039; mentality of God by not worrying about litter because to them, worring about litter makes you a ungodly hippy.
We got Christians who threw out used condoms, dirty tampons and leftover marijuana residue at 4:20 from the 1960&#039;s flower power Volkswagen bus of &#039;free love&#039; before they became Christian who never got firmly grounded and still to this day do not think that it is wrong to litter even though there are laws against it. When they get caught, it&#039;s a &#039;conspiracy&#039; from the &quot;establishment&quot;.
We got Christians who would throw out used condoms and dirty tampons on the road because there will be a criminal who got a &#039;community service&#039; sentence to pick the trash up once a month and also because it&#039;s so gross, &#039;punish&#039; him some more because the judge let him off too easily and God needs to do something about that.
We wonder why we can&#039;t reach the ones with seared consciences when it appears many within the church have the same thought processes of carlessness, recklessness, disdain, and apathy about their own spiritual well-being. Church to them is insurance from hell and also a chance once a month to win a XBox or Wal Mart gift card as part of the seeker-sensitive promotional drawing.
I too wonder what will happen to these types of Christians at the Great White Throne of judgment thinking that the outcome won&#039;t be pretty. It may be uglier....</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dan:</p><p>Very insightful article as usual.  What you stated is 100% true</p><p>I thought about this article for a couple of days because in my part of the country, you would be very surprised at who would be the culprits that would throw out used condoms and dirty tampons from their car windows&#8230;</p><p>Christians</p><p>We got the Christians who are so &#8216;rapture-ready&#8217; that they believe that Jesus will take them away before the environmental consequences of the dirty condoms/tampons take place. So why care?</p><p>We got Christians who believe that not littering is &#8216;a hippy thing&#8217; and according to them, all hippies are into environmentalism, pagan gods, legalization of drugs, etc. they will show their &#8216;separatist&#8217; mentality of God by not worrying about litter because to them, worring about litter makes you a ungodly hippy.</p><p>We got Christians who threw out used condoms, dirty tampons and leftover marijuana residue at 4:20 from the 1960&#8242;s flower power Volkswagen bus of &#8216;free love&#8217; before they became Christian who never got firmly grounded and still to this day do not think that it is wrong to litter even though there are laws against it. When they get caught, it&#8217;s a &#8216;conspiracy&#8217; from the &#8220;establishment&#8221;.</p><p>We got Christians who would throw out used condoms and dirty tampons on the road because there will be a criminal who got a &#8216;community service&#8217; sentence to pick the trash up once a month and also because it&#8217;s so gross, &#8216;punish&#8217; him some more because the judge let him off too easily and God needs to do something about that.</p><p>We wonder why we can&#8217;t reach the ones with seared consciences when it appears many within the church have the same thought processes of carlessness, recklessness, disdain, and apathy about their own spiritual well-being. Church to them is insurance from hell and also a chance once a month to win a XBox or Wal Mart gift card as part of the seeker-sensitive promotional drawing.</p><p>I too wonder what will happen to these types of Christians at the Great White Throne of judgment thinking that the outcome won&#8217;t be pretty. It may be uglier&#8230;.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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