Arizona church is house of prostitution, police say - By Michael Martinez, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/09/arizona.church.prostitution/index.html?iref=NS1
The Church has been getting a bad rep a lot in the past year. The predicted "end of the world" on May 21th by Harold Camping, the constant protests of Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka, Kansas, have both contributed to the de-popularization of the Christian Church. This story only adds to the poison.
Under the mask of a church, people are committing crimes. Falsely hiding behind the name of God there is an organization making an illegal profit. This is selfish, cowardice, and wrong. It is selfish because they only are thinking about themselves and not all the families and the religion that they are hurting. It is cowardice because they won't call what they are doing its actual and proper name, prostitution. It is wrong because of the reasons previously stated.
This crime is worse than the "normal" prostitution, if you can call prostitution normal. I mean normal as in being honest about and naming it what it actually is. A hurting young woman standing on a street corner, looking to pay for the previous month's rent is better off than this bastion of evil. I pray for the deliverance of the young women on their own that feel that prostitution is an acceptable means of providing the essentials of life. I cannot say the same for this "church" in Arizona. I pray that they be publicly exposed as wrong and that the press extricates this event from the Christian circle. Putting the Christian tag on this story was a wrong thing to do. The author of this article, though, did do a good job of portraying this crime as separated from the capitol "C" Church.
Please do not read this story and think less of the Christian Church. And there is some reason for this current event.
The Church has been getting a bad rep a lot in the past year. The predicted "end of the world" on May 21th by Harold Camping, the constant protests of Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka, Kansas, have both contributed to the de-popularization of the Christian Church. This story only adds to the poison.
Under the mask of a church, people are committing crimes. Falsely hiding behind the name of God there is an organization making an illegal profit. This is selfish, cowardice, and wrong. It is selfish because they only are thinking about themselves and not all the families and the religion that they are hurting. It is cowardice because they won't call what they are doing its actual and proper name, prostitution. It is wrong because of the reasons previously stated.
This crime is worse than the "normal" prostitution, if you can call prostitution normal. I mean normal as in being honest about and naming it what it actually is. A hurting young woman standing on a street corner, looking to pay for the previous month's rent is better off than this bastion of evil. I pray for the deliverance of the young women on their own that feel that prostitution is an acceptable means of providing the essentials of life. I cannot say the same for this "church" in Arizona. I pray that they be publicly exposed as wrong and that the press extricates this event from the Christian circle. Putting the Christian tag on this story was a wrong thing to do. The author of this article, though, did do a good job of portraying this crime as separated from the capitol "C" Church.
Please do not read this story and think less of the Christian Church. And there is some reason for this current event.
Michael—I agree with everything you say here. Using someone's faith in ANY way as a tool other than to find one's self and relationship with the world/God is incredibly devious and evil. Imagine how so many Muslims must feel because they are "represented" by extremists who make them all out to be psychopathic murderers. It shows how many people in the world really DO lack faith in anything, no?
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