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[gatorback]

Our children's service has an easter egg hunt during Easter service with real easter eggs and real easter bunnys.  I know, I helped make a basket for that day we auctioned some off for charity.  I like the ears mostly.

[Charleston native]

Do the kids pray to the Easter bunny? Do they take the Easter eggs and put them on top of the church steeple?

[gatorback]

 Who didn't pray for lots of candy from the Easter bunny when they were growing up.

[Lunican]

Do the kids pray to the Easter bunny? Do they take the Easter eggs and put them on top of the church steeple?

They would if their parents told them to.

[Charleston native]

Keep on legitimizing this religion, Stephen; your example is blatantly false while there are archaeological finds and studies that show Allah did come from the moon god.

[gatorback]

Do the kids pray to the Easter bunny? Do they take the Easter eggs and put them on top of the church steeple?

Not every church could afford a nice steeple, ours was mostly a flat roof but we did God's work from it.   I've been reading...easter eggs go back further then even Easter itself.  That's Wacked!
In fact, some even make Easter egg rolls.  Even Allah had Easter Eggs.



So what's everybody doing this Easter?  Anybody celebrating the The Season of Lent.

[fhrathore]

What I do not understand is this. Let's say Allah comes from the Moon God, so what? What does this prove? Actually, the word Allah is a generic arabic word used to describe god. It is a gender neutral word that any arab, Muslim or otherwise, would use to describe God...

[buckethead]

Last time I checked the Baptist Church still taught to "hate the sin but love the sinner," For those who take the scriptures as fact without flaw, their teaching is often quite deep and thoughful. However, when the Bible labels something as wrong or as a sin, so will the Baptist Church, sadly, this is often taken as a personal attack from the pastor, rather then the source.

Dr. Vines was entitled to his opinion of Mohamad, as are the rest of us for better or worse...

Mohamad called all of the Jews and Christians "People of the Book", until he gained enough military power, then changed that to "Devils".

The Mormon Church, says that all other churches are wrong, their leaders corrupt, they have a form of godlyness and draw near with their lips but are far from him with thier hearts.

The Watchtower claims that the prophets of old appeared and made a survey of all churches, finding that only the Jehovahs Witnesses were the keepers of truth. They even built an estate for the "prophets" in Southern California, which their leader lived in (to keep it) for the angelic beings.

The Catholics, though liberal in this Country, haven't given an inch in the rest of the World, they still teach, "On CHURCH, one faith, one baptism" meaning of course their own. They alone are the keepers of all truth, and light, Gods representatives on Earth, and have the dogma to back it up.

Bottom line as I see it, we spend a great deal of time on these forum pages crying over the sins, real and imagined of FBC Jacksonville. Then spin on a dime and whine over why there isn't more to our downtown urban core. Wake up folks, here we have a "club Baptist" that is active almost every day of the week, and it brings 10-20,000 people downtown 1-5 times a week. It's as good as having a professional basketball team playing nearly every night 365. Perhaps we should see these folks as customers for Transit, Restaurants, and Retail, rather then ranting on about their personal beliefs.

Ocklawaha

Heckuva post. never before had I considered this aspect.

Having attended Trinity Christian Acadamy in my junior high years, I still have little love for FBC. I will not live under their dogma, and they are as much a political force as they are religious.

[Dog Walker]

First Baptist categorizes gay people, masturbaters, and wet dreamers under the category 'sexual brokenness'.

They have a class for it.

Wow, Stephen!  That would be an interesting one to attend.  When is it offered?

[Dog Walker]

The mind boggles!  What a fantastic play it would make.  Can't you just imagine some of the opportunities for a good writer?

[Dog Walker]

Why is it that religious people, except for maybe Jews, are so afraid of sex?

[braeburn]

Get a taste of religion - lick a witch!