Baptist @ MindSay

Ready to start my new JOB in the morning!
The "Big Event" at Center Grove Baptist church today was wonderful! Almost 1000 in attendance! Had 3 overflow rooms full plus sanctuary! The new lobby area is wonderful ,so open and greatly expanded! Love it!  Sanctuary was painted and all new chairs brought in too!Lunch on the grounds was good too! Lots of fellowship going on!
Next few weeks will be busy!
Dixie Classic Fair coming in 3 Fridays! Oct.2-11th!!
Morgan, if you read this...are you coming home that first weekend to go to fair??

The Internet was created by the United States of America - a Christian nation [ref. 1, 2, 3] - and should not be used to spread anti-Christian, secular, or non-Christian propaganda and hatespeech. This is our Internet, and we should exercise our position as its owners and as the guardians of civilization to stop its misuse.

For this reason, this website was created to try and stop one of the more vile and dangerous misuses of the Internet: using it to mock Our Lord Jesus Christ, His teachings, and His followers. And one site in particular stands out in need of stoppage: Landover Baptist.

Landover Baptist claims to be a church. Moreover, they claim to be the only church in America that understands the Bible! In fact, neither is true. Landover Baptist is a fraud. A joke. Their true purpose is not to spread the Gospel of our Lord, but to trick people - especially those who have not received the Word and Salvation or have been programmed by secular culture to distrust Christianity - into believing that Christianity is evil and rejecting it.

For this blasphemous atrocity, the Landover Baptist website must be removed from our Internet.

About "Landover Baptist":

Landover Baptist is run by an organization that calls itself - no doubt in gleeful mockery of Our Lord - Americhrist Ltd. Its leader is a shadowy figure named Chris Harper who apparently has a history of anti-Christian bigotry. Although Landover Baptist claims to own vast properties and have thousands of members, in reality it exists only on the Internet and it's membership is quite small.

Their modus operandi is simple: post articles that take good Christian values and twist them - beyond recognition - such that they look arrogant, hateful, or just idiotic. To this they add a continuous mockery of The Lord and Salvation, such as portraying Jesus Christ as the captain of a decadent cruise ship or offering a free cellphone as a reward for those who become saved - demeaning the value of Salvation to that of some material trinket!

Landover Baptist also targets our youth. They regularly do articles about some pop-culture entertainment that has a loyal teen or preteen following (such as the singing group In Sync, who are in fact Christians) that contain intentional lies and slanders designed specifically to cause those youthful and naive fans to consider the authors of the articles to be either idiots or evil or both - and they do this in the appropriated name of our Lord! This predictably causes the fans to come to the site (Landover's followers make sure to notify fans of the atrocity by placing forged announcements on their fansite message boards); view the many inappropriate, hate-filled articles; and come away infected with anti-Christian propaganda.

All of this has the result of replacing, in the minds of hapless non-Christian visitors, the teachings of Our Lord with the false and purposely distasteful teachings of Chris Harper and his band of hatemongers. Those who do not end up rejecting Christianity because of this site will end up accepting evil lies in Christianity's place. Either way, the devil wins.

Furthermore, it is clear that they do not want people to know their true goals. For example, their guestbook is set to asterisk-out words like "joke", "satire", "parody", "anti-christian", and - most tellingly - "Satan" so that any Christian who tries to inform naive visitors of the truth ends up sounding like a foul-mouthed, raving loon. They also filter out "Americhrist", obviously to keep their connections to Atheist militants a secret!

NEWS FLASH! If you had any doubts as to the affiliation of the creator of Landover Baptist check out this link which shows pictures from an Atheist convention that "Reverend" Chris Harper was a key speaker at with other anti-Christian blackguards such as Douglas Adams and Dave "Mephistopheles" Kong!

Take Action:

Our cause is in its infancy and we are still growing. So far we have a membership of over 100 concerned and motivated Christians who are willing to do whatever it takes to shut down Landover, but we still need your help. Please take the time to join our cause and show the world that intolerance and hatred towards Christianity will be met with determined resistance!

If you have any more information that can help us in our cause or wish to join, you may contact OBJECTIVE: Landover Baptist Shutdown at:

Things we can do:

• Prayer. It is our best weapon against the anti-Christian forces. We must pray not only that the Lord will intervene on behalf of the unsaved who are being damaged by Americhrist Ltd., but also for the souls of those same unsaved. Furthermore, we must pray that Chris Harper and his fellow hatemongers will themselves be saved and cease in their evil actions.
• Contact the webhost of Landover Baptist and inform them of what they are hosting. Clearly they are unaware of the contents of this site, or else it would have been deleted. If the webhost is part of the anti-Christian agenda, then we must contact any other of their service providers - including the phone company, domain name service, etc. - that are unknowingly being used to further hatred and inform them of Americhrist Ltd.'s true intentions.
• Next, we should bring the site to the attention of the makers of Internet filtering and blocking software. Ultimately, Landover Baptist is much more dangerous than any pornography site since it leads people to reject their only hope for salvation!
• Petitions!
• If none of this works, we must inform the authorities of this obvious instance of anti-Christian hate crime, which is illegal in most areas. If it isn't illegal, we must pressure our congressmen to make it so!
• Also, you should inform the pastor of your church so that he may inform the congregation, allowing our grass-roots campaign to grow. Chris Harper and his cowardly supporters are no match for the determined will of good Christians when they join together for a righteous cause!

Complaints can be sent to Americhrist Ltd. (though I doubt they will respond) at:

Okay I haven't commented on one of the most devestating things that happened to my fantasy sex life. Heath Ledger Oding. Simply beause what is the use of bemoaning the fact the man ODed and is gone. What makes his life any better then the countless ppl who do the same thing. Stressed out, aren't sleeping, and accidently or on purpous take too many of their pills and boom are dead!


Anyway what I am posting about finally is Fred Phelps and his Inbreed gang from KS the Westboro Baptist Church of wack jobs, have announced they are going to protest Mr. Ledger's funeral because he protrayed a Homosexual Man in Brokeback Mt. To be honest I haven't seen the movie not because I don't want to but because I am a Mamma and movie times around here are more like question and answer time. My kids are now to the age that we REALLY have to be choosy on what they watch otherwise we might have to go into far more detail then we are ready for them to have on certain issues.

Isn't it bad enough that Phelps and his inbreed Gang harrase and terrorize Military Families grieving the lost of love ones far from home but now they are going to protest an actor's funeral and harrase and terrorize his family and friends. Ledger's daughter is ten to one going to be there and trust me she may not be old enough to understand things but stressful situations do make themselves known to lil ones!

May the Light Shine Brightly on the Ledger Family primarily his daughter to get through this situation and to grow up in a loving home known that her Daddy did love her.

So it is 8 am and my kids aren't at Mass with Grandma.  Why?  A) The kids don't know how to put their coats and snow pants up on the rack and threw them right next to the cat box.  Can you say soaking in oxiclean and soap before being washed! B) Kids are now cleaning said mudporch

 

I was out side at 10 after 7 this morning.  I woke up at 7.  I was scopping my small lil piece of sidewalk that leads to my van.  After I got that scopped, got a path all around the van scopped; I then threw out salt on the sidewalk.

 

Called my mom and said I could crawl right on out of the lane with the van and I am goign to have to because Randy and I stupidly forgot the no gel for the diesel tank for the truck.  I need to pick some of that up and put in before I start the truck up.  But the boy spawn of mine doesn't have a coat till I get it washed.  She told me not a problem and don't worry about it, the kids will be at church Wensday twice no less.

 

In college, friends and I would talk about faith and money all the time.  See my b/f at the time, his best friend, and I were non practicing Catholics.  I was starting to really study the Celtic Spiritualities at that time and D and Mike just never went to church unless one of their mothers guilted me into making them go.  My mom stopped badgering my brother and I after we were confirmed to go to Mass.  Anyway, D, Mike, and I rarely put any money in the gift basket.  And the few times our Baptist friends would come with us they were shocked and appalled that we never put money in the basket.  All three of us, even though raised in totally different areas of the midwest, we raised by women who were very Devout Catholic but ALWAYS put family first.  Meaning, if you were broke and struggling to pay your bills, you do NOT give to the church.  You only put money in the basket if your bills were paid and you might have a few bucks in your wallet or purse.  Well the three of us were broke ass college students.  D and Mike's family's out in Shy Town and my family 4 hours to the south.  Not like we could call the parental units up and ask for money and have them just hand it over to us.  We tried explaining this to our friends.  We had one friend T1 (three of our friends names started wtih T so thus 1 and such) gave all his cash to the gift basket even after we told him NOT to!  He said that it was going in and staying in.  We were boggled.  The Priests don't shake us down at Church to give and give and give.  Especially knowing that a lot of parishners are broke ass sturggling middleclass folks!

 

The three Ts, and N explained that you walk into any Baptist Church and the preacher knows you, they will pin point you and basically bagger you to give as much as you can during the service.  Even knowning you might be broke ass!  Tried explained to the three of us, that their churchs and preachers expect a certain amount of their parishner's income each year.  D, Mike, and I were flabbergasted!  That isn't how it works for a LOT of people.  I do know some of the richer parishners and even D said is Granny and Step Grandpa put massive amounts of money into the gift basket, but usually how Catholics divy out their money to their Church is this:

 

1.  They give what they can while living.

2.  They get old, make out a will.

3.  And no matter what money they get a 1/3 of that money from their Will goes to their parish.

 

This is exactly what my grandpa that I didn't get to meet did.  Even though he still had one of my uncles home in jr high.  Out of the money left in the Will, a 1/3 of it went to the Parish and the rest went to my Grandma and Uncle.  When my Granny died last year at Thanksgiving time, 1/3 of her inheritance went to her Parish and then the rest was divied up between my Mom and her brothers.  A lot of small town and rural area Christians no matter what faith does this.  After they die a 1/3 of their inheritance goes to their church.  Even if they only have 100 dollars!  A 1/3 goes to their church!  My dad is livid because my parents made out their wills after my dad was dignosied with Guillium Barrers Syndrome.  To be on the safe side.  My dad is a non practicing protstant and will NOT give to his Church because he doesn't go and he doesn't like anyone at the Church.  The reason why he is livid is because my mom has specificated a 1/3 of her money that is left after burial expensese and such (which really isn't that much) will go to her Church and if her Church is shut down by the time she dies, it goes to the Mission School were my kids go to.  My dad doesn't want her to give any money to the church, he says they don't need it and the family does. 

 

Which brings me to what I really wanted to blog about and got off topic!  Do you give to the church when you die or even while alive?  Do you buy religious items even knowing that there is a good chance they aren't really religoius?  Do you buy items that may be blessed but are kind of shady?  A lot of people do!  Just last month, my kids and my mom bought a few wood carving items from a gentleman after Mass.  The reason why I didn't get to bent out of shape with my kids spending their 5 bucks was because this gentleman was known by the main Mission Priest and it was verified that the wood and the gentleman are from the Middleeast and is raising money for his Parish back home in the "holy land".  Plus DeLaney bought a couple of broach type wooden doves (not necessarily a Christian thing) and Coltin choose out a cross and handed it over to Grandma to have.  DeLaney is keeping the doves to give to Randy's mom next time we see her. 

 

If I get too lazy and need to bless or cleanse my house and I don't want to bless my own water, I go into the Catholic Church and take a small bottle from their holy water stash that sits in the back of all Catholic Churchs for the parishners or anyone who wants some.  My mom keeps a few bottles at all times as does a lot of the older Indian folks.  I actually have two bottles of holy water from the Mission.  One my mom gave me and one that F. Mike gave me when DeLaney told him we are getting ready for Winter Solstice and Feast of Fionn.  I have no problem using holy water blessed by someone outside my faith.  Doesn't mean it is straight Christian, just means that it was blessed and has protection in it.  I have seen ppl take gallons of holy water to drink even.  This really shocked a D and Mike when they came home with me one time!  D called his mom and told her and she started laughing and told him that it was and is still common in areas that a lot of old customes survived.  And told him to talk to my mom about it.  Now mind ya D was already a bit nervous because he had a city boys tude about coming to a rural area and he kept claiming to be a lone black man in the country(which he promptly found out he wasn't and that there were a few black families in the area and the city has a large black population!  That was fun rubbing his face in that one!) and now he had to go have a religious talk with his g/f's mom!  My mom explained that water is a basic healing, cleansing, and blessing element amoung many tribal and older cultures so it is just natural that people would take the holy water to drink and to bless their homes with.  A lot of the peyote ceromonies with older people are done with the peyote in water.  It gives it a double blessing and makes it easier for the older people to consume the peyote and ten to one they use either blessed water from one of two churchs in the area.  Either the Catholic or the NA Indian Church.

 

Which now finally brings me to what some companies are doing!  Sorry it took me a bit to get to this!  Some water bottling companies are selling "Holy Water"!  I am not shitting you!  They are bringing in Roman Catholic and Epsicpallion Priest and blessing the water, bottling it, and then slapping Christian pictures on the bottle and selling holy drinking water!  To me this is going a bit far in the commercialism of our society!  some of the advertising is not only is it good for you but it will make you a good person!  PLEASE!

 

At first I was like oh that isn't to bad, but then it got me thinking about how a lot of Chruchs bagder their parishners in giving money they don't have, how everytime you turn around when you go to church they are asking for money to be sent here, money to be sent there, money for their parish, money for that parish and when something terrible does happen people are so tired of handing out money they don't want to give when it is needed!  And now a companies not even apart of a Chruch are realizing the money potentional out there by decent Christian people and marketing "holy water".  I feel bad for these people.  They are buying water that has been blessed by a priest so a company NOT a church can make money!  They can easily go into a church and get their on holy water with out paying for it or heck even ask their local preist/preacher to come bless their sink if they wanted!  A lot of people around my area have that done on their wells!  My mom did!  When my folks had to have their well pump redone and put in a different spot, my mom asked her Priest to come out and bless the well!  When older Indian folks have their homes recedard and saged they ask their Holy Men to bless their wells or their water lines!  Why spend good money that can be given to other causes or used for household goods on "holy water" that your local or national church affilation isn't making any money on!

 

It is bad enough that Chruchs and Parishes shake down families and individuals for more and more money but now you have Christian based companies doing it to them also!  This really irritates me and makes me 100% glad that I am no longer a Christian!  A lot of "pagans" may be broke ass individuals but we don't care what faith organizatoin is in charge of something, if it is a good cause we give to them.  Only after our families are taken care of!  It makes no sense to be selling blessed water when a person can go to their local priest/preacher/holy person and have their own water blessed!  But it also does show why Pagan organizations usually don't last the course also!  We don't give to our organizations because we have our own families to take care of and if there is already an organization out there doing what we suggest it makes more sense to give to that organization instead!  Counting that the Christian Org will take our money!  Which is usually our problem, our money isn't good enough to a lot of Christian Orgs!  Oh Well. 

 

So if you are one of these people that are thinking about buying the Blessed Drinking Water, Stop!  Think about the money you are wasting and could possibly give to your own Chruch and just have your preist/preacher/holy man come out and bless your water lines in stead!

 

It's been a good day so far.

 

At Church there were two baptisms into Baptist Christianity. I've been baptised Catholic, and since that's my upbringing I'm going to keep it, as my sister says, doesn't matter which Christian/ Catholic church you go to. So long as it's got good values and nice people does help.

 

But it's always good to see people showing their commitment. Whether it be the first time, or again after being baptised as a baby. I'm friends with one of the guys who was baptised, the other I didn't really know, but it's still good to hear his story as well.