Christianity encourages immorality

[arcticpenguin]

OK, the thread title is misleading. Here's the story:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1451/3719826.html

Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA

Man steals credit card from church, uses it to buy books at a Christian book store.

The books? Ten copies of "Making Peace With Your Past" and "Moving Beyond Your Past"

[Akots]

So the purpose of his criminal activity was the purchasing of books to help reform the criminal activity of illegaly aquiring the books?

:eek:

[Skeptical Greg]

Hey, you gotta start( stop?) somewhere....:D

[Akots]

Yes, but stopping in the same exact place you started immediately BEFORE you start...? I guess, sometimes, the path of life is a mobeius strip.

I wonder if the church got enough cash for the sold books to replace the... uh... books? Wait... :confused:

[arcticpenguin]

Originally posted by Akots

I wonder if the church got enough cash for the sold books to replace the... uh... books? Wait... :confused:
I don't think the bookstore was affiliated with the church where the credit card was stolen.

The credit card belonged to a church member, not to the church itself.

A suspect is in custody, the books, receipts, and change were found in his car.

So when a theist does something wrong it is because of their theism...but when an atheist does something wrong it isn't because of their atheism?

[Skeptical Greg]

Originally posted by Whodini
So when a theist does something wrong it is because of their theism...but when an atheist does something wrong it isn't because of their atheism?



There you go again...

No one said ... " ...when a theist does something wrong it is because of their theism... "


Is this what you believe?


How about .. " In spite of it ".. ??


Which is an observation of why anyone does anything, that is apparently contrary to the tenants of a given belief system..

In case you missed it, this thread is about an ironic series of events; and no, it has nothing to do with the
virtues of 'permanant press' fabrics...

[Crossbow]

Who did this business with the credit card is in the Minor League!

Just remember a few of the Major League examples:

Jim Bakker,
Jimmy Swaggert,
Oral Roberts,
Pat Robertson,
Jerry Fallwell,
and several Catholic Preists (who are sworn to poverty, chasity, and obiedence)!

[arcticpenguin]

Originally posted by Crossbow

and several Catholic Preists (who are sworn to poverty, chasity, and obiedence)!
Different orders take different vows. I recall one Caddy-driving priest who insisted he had not taken a vow of poverty. I don't know which order he belonged to.