Posted on 12/09/2014 12:22:08 PM PST by Brother Cracker
The media frenzy exposing Bill Cosby's sordid sex life is deeply disturbing, but Bill Cosby has an opportunity to use this nightmare for America's benefit.
In the final years of his life, Bill Cosby can choose to live in disgrace. He can look forward to every gory detail of any misdeeds becoming the subject of books and television specials. He can stew in bitterness and regrets, watching his fame as a comedian surpassed by detailed accusations of him being a rapist.
But, he has another choice—a truly amazing one.
The Apostle Paul once sought to wipe out Christianity. By God's grace he became its greatest evangelist. In his first letter to Timothy, he wrote, "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, first, Jesus Christ might show all patience, as an example to those who were to believe in Him for eternal life" (1 Tim. 1:15-16).
Bill Cosby is a famous enough celebrity to take on misdeeds still prevalent in the entertainment industry. From a position as repentant sinner, he can speak out in opposition to the philosophy that led to his shame.
We now learn that, while Cosby played a model father on television, he hung out with Hugh Hefner off the set. The man given the title, "America's Dad" was allegedly forcing himself on other father's daughters.
Fathers raising daughters live in fear because of the philosophy promoted in Playboy and practiced by some in Hollywood. Imagine Bill Cosby, with true humility and remorse, calling on Hollywood to reject the philosophy of Hugh Hefner.
Playboy is not interested in the fatherly role of protecting daughters. It's interested in exploiting them. Teenage and 20-something girls are presented as sex objects. Stars, producers and directors are constantly around vulnerable young women. There is a temptation to see them not as someone's daughter but as sex objects.
The Playboy philosophy is all about male stimulation and gratification. This requires daughters. Hugh Hefner wants other men's daughters to pose naked for photos and to become party favors for his houseguests. His philosophy is not reserved for those who visit the Playboy mansion. It's promoted in every small town in America.
Today's fathers must worry about every boy or man who comes near their daughters. They wonder, "To what extent have they been influenced by Playboy? What's running through the mind of anyone spending time with my daughter?"
Many fathers (like myself) have been influenced by Playboy at some point in their life. They know the impact Playboy had, or has, on their mind. They know how compulsive impure thoughts can be.
Playboy will teach you that impure thoughts are part of life. This is true, but Playboy accepts this truth instead of trying to overcome it. To Playboy, girls exist to become sex objects. They have no choice.
Playboy is wrong, however.
There is a choice. Hollywood, and all of America, will be better off if men make the right choice.
Jesus Christ taught that you can be "born again." Sinful human nature, with its impure thoughts, can be overcome, and you can be born of the Spirit, filled by God with pure thoughts.
The boy or man filled with pure thoughts would consider an invitation to a Hugh Hefner party to be offensive. It wouldn't even be a temptation.
The greatest tragedy of the Playboy philosophy is that many boys and girls are being raised without fathers present. Men who found some girl, or woman, willing to give them a few minutes of gratification have no interest in caring about what becomes of their resulting son or daughter.
Equally tragic are the families destroyed by husbands who leave their wives (and family) to seek stimulation and gratification elsewhere.
The Playboy philosophy is all about selfishness.
What the world needs are good fathers who teach their sons to think about women like a father would instead of how Hugh Hefner would. A father looks forward to the day when his daughter marries a responsible, loving man. What a good father wants for his daughter is a husband who will cherish and care for his daughter for the rest of her life.
Bill Cosby had good reason to understand this. He has four daughters with his wife. He's quoted saying, "Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children." But, in 1971, seven years after being married, his wife, his first two daughters and his son moved from Southern California to Shelburne, Massachusetts to get away from the "toxic" Hollywood scene. His wife Camille is quoted saying that Bill was being "selfish."
Selfishness has casualties. Autumn Jackson spent 26 months in jail for attempting to extort $40 million from Bill Cosby. Her mother claims she's a fifth daughter of Cosby's.
Shortly before his execution for mass murder, Ted Bundy was interviewed by James Dobson. Bundy warned America how dangerous pornography is. Nothing could bring back the girls he killed, but his confession and warning may have helped some young men to avoid his mistakes.
Imagine Bill Cosby doing the ultimate unselfish thing, laying down his pride and reputation to help protect those in danger today. Imagine Bill Cosby advising stars, producers and executives not to exploit other men's daughters (or sons).
One day each of us will stand before God, accountable for what we did with our life.
Please pray that Bill Cosby will conclude his life's story experiencing the forgiveness and grace of God, and become a champion out to help protect America's daughters (and sons) from sexual exploitation.
The point of this writinq is qood. Cosby does have a chance to speak out about the harms of the whole Playboy mindset. Part of what’s qoinq on now, thouqh, is an attempt to make everybody iqnore whatever Cosby says because he is a “hypocrite”.
And I am almost certain he is beinq tarqeted. There are biq problems with Janice Dickinson’s claims, for instance.
The Polaroid photos she claims to have taken riqht before passinq out and beinq raped, when compared with an actual photo of Cosby from 1982, show a younqer Cosby wearinq different qlasses. Those “rape” photos apparently were taken by somebody who knew Cosby very familiarly in the days precedinq 1982, and handed out to Dickinson so she could construct a rape story around the bathrobe Cosby was wearinq in the photo. I suspect it may have been Mr. Scotti.
The photos show a bottle of booze that is not red wine, which is what Dickinson says Cosby qave her the pill with. Another accuser says Cosby doesn’t drink, so that bottle of booze was apparently for somebody else who was there - probably the photoqrapher, who may well have been Mr. Scotti
Cosby supposedly flew Dickinson to Lake Tahoe to discuss havinq her on his show. But in 1982 Cosby didn’t have a show. He had no TV show between 1973 and 1984.
Dickinson says she woke up with her pajamas off. Where did her pajamas come from? Did she wear them to the dinner with Cosby? If not, did she brinq them with her to the dinner? If so, why? Did she hide them in the baq that would also have had to hide a bulky Polaroid camera? And when and why did Cosby qet into a robe and she qet into her pajamas, without raisinq questions in her mind?
Cosby’s lawyer has noted that Dickinson’s 2002 book says that she wouldn’t have sex with Cosby so he blew her off. She claims she tried to tell about the rape but Cosby pressured her and her publisher to leave it out. Cosby’s attorney says anybody can ask the publisher and they will admit that there was no pressure. Either way, thouqh, she admittedly lied in the book, reqardless of the reason she qives for it. What else is she lyinq about? That photo sure looks like it was fed to her from somebody else who took the photos pre-1982, and she built a story around those photos. The other claims in her story don’t add up either.
The photos to compare can be seen startinq at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3234986/posts?page=80#80 and the few posts after that. Additional information and processinq can be seen at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3234986/posts?page=67#67 and the posts followinq.
There is a very qood possibility that Cosby was a womanizer, and if so I hope and pray that he repents of that and speaks out about that, as this article suqqests. The claims of rape, thouqh, are frauqht with inconsistencies. They are, at best, unprovable alleqations, and at worst outriqht fabrications to frame him as a rapist and qet the world to blow off the words he HAS said in defense of responsible livinq.
As Christians, we need to uphold not only the commandment aqainst adultery but also the commandment aqainst bearinq false witness. As Americans, we need to uphold the principle of “innocent until proven quilty” and the standard of evidence.
The evidence I’ve mentioned suqqests to me that there was a conspiracy to frame Cosby - with those alleqed photos from riqht before Dickinson passed out used as the basis for a pre-planned, fabricated story.
“Interesting how the media destroy someone over sex ONLY if they disagree with his politics.”
Drugging and raping is not ‘sex’.
Cosby IS a lefty, Obama supporting democrat, that despises republicans and says that they are old school racists who oppose Obama because of it.
Twenty one women have come forward over the years, with two police reports and one successful lawsuit, along with other people including a Cosby bag man, and Hef has taken a hands off reaction, is everyone part of the conspiracy?
Bill Cosby's relationship with anyone should first be with God and if he is truly repentant, God will show the way forward
Always ... God will show HIMself to be gracious, loving and absolutely correct in unraveling man's convoluted sinful mess he calls his life.
Aren't you currently having trouble with your computer because you are a victim of a conspiracy, and according to you, Homeland Security is sabotaging your internet activities?
I'm not so sure that you are the best source for conspiracies.
yes, Butter, Bill Cosby is being targeted.
I have no problem with a truly repentant serial rapist as Champion.
After all, God chose the repentant murderer Saul to become the Apostle Paul.
Someday the world will know exactly what has been done to me, and why.
But you’re evadinq the issue of the evidence I cite. As usual.
Butter, the best can say is it reminds me of Copperhead Road.
But if Bill Cosby wants to get right with Jesus is strictly between Cosby and Jesus. It's not a matter for public consumption.
He's toast publicly, socially, professionally. Leave that alone.
It's not a matter for trying to rehabilitate his public image. That's gone forever.
Pray that he finds the righteous path privately and leads a good life with what he has left.
Shot a coat of primer ... but still remember that Rumbling Sound .... Ye Hi!!!
and if he repents, then what?
Would he keep denying the charges and calling the women liars?
If he admitted it, he would go straight to jail, and he would not become anyone’s champion.
If Cosby is offed by Ninja Frogmen then we’ll know for sure.
One of the accusers accidentally said that there was no talk about druqqinqs and rapes until 2004. that’s BEFORE Constand filed a police report. IOW, they were talkinq about makinq claims of druqqinq and rape before Constand ever made her police report. They had it all planned out in advance. The specific claims were not qoinq to be the story. The story was qoinq to be the NUMBER of claims. And so that has been the case.
But the individual stories don’t make sense, and in the case of Dickinson there is qood evidence to suqqest that SOMEBODY fed her photos to use as supposedly-contemporaneous evidence for her fabricated claims. But those photos - as well as the other discrepancies in her story - incriminate the whole crew and expose the falsehood.
Can you give us a hint of why there is a conspiracy to get you?
Money ... they only come to town about twice a year. Yes, the Money Girls are headed up the hollow.
Not to qet me. Just to stop me.
Ask Sharyl Atkisson.
Butter, never forget ... They hate Us because the truth is told.
I wonder; why is the confessional not in the public square with a loud speaker?
So there is a conspiracy in Homeland Security to stop you and they are in your computer, causing you problems reading articles and posting.
Will you give us a hint of why they are conspiring against you?
Who is running the conspiracy against Bill Cosby and how big is it?
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