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MurphyLong said:
Lots of places are...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker
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Evidently, your understanding of Christian principles is a little skewed. None of those four are based on the teachings of Jesus Christ, which is the definition of Christian. The first two, in particular, are classified as cults. Maybe three...in some ways, Westboro is cult-ish.
 
Chicl fil la does well because of sound business principles.

I, too, had a hard time believing this could happen. And I have zero hope for people.
 
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Brought some sorghum baked beans to work today. Then I get fussed at fer using my mason/candy jar to eat some outta. Apparently that's redneck.
 
NKD said:
Chicl fil la does well because of sound business principles.
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Agreed - But the Founder credited: "Cathy attributed his material success to a mix of customer service, hard work and Christian values - values which drove him to keep all Chick-fil-A restaurants closed on Sunday. It was a company policy that he steadfastly defended and justified."

I had the opportunity to hear Mr. Cathy (Founder's son) at a leadership conference at our chuch last year - He still follows his father's values.


http://www.npr.org/2014/09/08/34687...-credited-his-success-to-christian-principles
 
bspitt said:
Agreed - But the Founder credited: "Cathy attributed his material success to a mix of customer service, hard work and Christian values - values which drove him to keep all Chick-fil-A restaurants closed on Sunday. It was a company policy that he steadfastly defended and justified."

I had the opportunity to hear Mr. Cathy (Founder's son) at a leadership conference at our chuch last year - He still follows his father's values.


http://www.npr.org/2014/09/08/34687...-credited-his-success-to-christian-principles
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I think he'd be even more successful if he was open on Sundays, lol.
 
NKD said:
I think he'd be even more successful if he was open on Sundays, lol.
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Shush yo mouth. I am quietly buying up all the commercial land next to Chik-fil-a's and planning a new restaurant chain. It is going to be open only on Sundays and and be staffed by heathens. The name will be very similar, but have some secret devil code in it so all the Wiccans, Satanists, agnostics, atheists and similar folks will come too.

And we are going to have booze dammit. after Noon of course. Beer, bourbon and shine right out of the soda machine. :D
 
CZfool68 said:
Shush yo mouth. I am quietly buying up all the commercial land next to Chik-fil-a's and planning a new restaurant chain. It is going to be open only on Sundays and and be staffed by heathens. The name will be very similar, but have some secret devil code in it so all the Wiccans, Satanists, agnostics, atheists and similar folks will come too.

And we are going to have booze dammit. after Noon of course. Beer, bourbon and shine right out of the soda machine. :D
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Genius!
 
NKD said:
Genius!
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I have had lots of brilliant ideas in my life. Just never the stones or money to act on them. I invented the video screen over the urinal for TV and ads in the mid 80's. Had a professor tell me it was a dumb idea. Got a B or something on that project. I cringe every time I am in a sports bar and see the screens. There was money to be made there for someone. Just not me. :(
 
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MurphyLong said:
Lots of places are...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker
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The mere mention of Jesus, does not make one a Christian.
Waco? Really?

I think you are confused about what a Christian is, and isn't.

No the Bible is not open to private interpretation. What that litterally means, is that it interprets itself through cross reference within the tome.
Professing and possessing are two different verbs, and mean entirely different things.
 
CZfool68 said:
I have had lots of brilliant ideas in my life. Just never the stones or money to act on them. I invented the video screen over the urinal for TV and ads in the mid 80's. Had a professor tell me it was a dumb idea. Got a B or something on that project. I cringe every time I am in a sports bar and see the screens. There was money to be made there for someone. Just not me. :(
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Ask your professor how much he made off that idea.
 
MurphyLong said:
Lots of places are...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker
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The fact that you could rustle up the most contemptible examples of religious folks who co-opted the term "christian", and compared it to a wildly successful commercial enterprise that happens to be run by Christians makes not one wit of sense. Chikfila does one thing, and one thing well, and that is sell chicken sandwiches, with courtesy, to the general public. I ate my first one around 1970 and they haven't changed a thing, except to add items to the menu.

Why on earth would you compare them to that list above? o_O
 
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I think you guys missed his point:

Calling yourself Christian and claiming to do business based on "Christian priciples" doesn't make you successful at business. It doesn't even make you a Christian.

In the bible I read, Jesus would have given all the chicken away to poor people. As far as I can tell, he didn't do a whole lot of business at all!
 
trcubed said:
Ask your professor how much he made off that idea.
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He was partially correct since the small TV and monitors were costly back then. But once those prices dropped, predictably, it became a no brainer. The professor was actually pretty good, but it was in the 80's and his background was in the restaurant business so his view was skewed by that world.
 
NKD said:
I think you guys missed his point:

Calling yourself Christian and claiming to do business based on "Christian priciples" doesn't make you successful at business. It doesn't even make you a Christian.

In the bible I read, Jesus would have given all the chicken away to poor people. As far as I can tell, he didn't do a whole lot of business at all!
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You mean Murphy Long's point? It was the worst comparison imaginable.
 
NKD said:
Calling yourself Christian and claiming to do business based on "Christian priciples" doesn't make you successful at business. It doesn't even make you a Christian.
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Actually.....that is EXACTLY what makes you a Christian. Actually acknowledging Christ in every facet of your life, including your business dealings.
 
Look we get it, the world hates God and godly principles. This world is Lucifer's kingdom.....for now.
There have always been just two teams.
 
MurphyLong said:
MY point wasn't to attack Christians, or simply compare them to the worst of the worst, but by the logic in your post, that validates that my references were Christian. Nonetheless, my point was that doing something in the name of Christ, or with Christian values doesn't automatically make it "a good thing."

Besides, I left out The Crusades!
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The crusades were actually a defensive action in response to the massive slaughter by mudman people. In fact it was a fairly small action compared to the calibrate driven slaughter of the then non madman world.

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fieldgrade said:
You must not have seen the news some years back that the president of SCNB was sexually harassing his male executive assistants.

He's a dirtbag. It goes much beyond his diddling preferences.
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It wasn't just harassing them. When they didn't comply, he tricked the employee into signing a check for him, then had the employee arrested for forgery.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1836733/
 
Just read the story... Sad. Now there's another precedent set that cops can't be trusted...
 
MurphyLong said:
I don't think it conveys that, considering it was someone OTHER than the cop who started the social media mess.
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Maybe not to you, but that's not how it plays... The optics suck. A police org posts publicly on their facebook starting a media/internet shitstorm about an offense that turns out to be a bold-faced lie? How else can it be taken?
 
ARM said:
I could see it going both ways. It does make it seem like the police community jumped on the news without facts due to a social media post. This is why I don't have or care for social media.
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That's how everyone acts these days. Once it's posted on social media it takes off like wildfire. It's really impossible to have an informed opinion with everything spreading rapidly through social media with out facts or confirmation.
 
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