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To: concerned about politics
It's like eating a sacrifice to Satan.
I'm not eating one. The darn things have been cursed.

I think this dude named "Paul" had the same kind of situation happen in some place called "Corinth":

So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

If you are so weak in your faith that eating a Butterball Turkey will cause you distress, then do not do so. But I will pray that you will move beyond this weakness.

41 posted on 11/22/2011 8:04:12 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
If you are so weak in your faith that eating a Butterball Turkey will cause you distress, then do not do so. But I will pray that you will move beyond this weakness.

Oh please. It just creeps me out. Would you eat a Turkey handed to you by an OWS protester who's been living in squallier for 3 months? Probably not. Why? BECAUSE IT'S CREEPY. You KNOW where it's been!

52 posted on 11/22/2011 8:12:59 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
"If you are so weak in your faith that eating a Butterball Turkey will cause you distress, then do not do so. But I will pray that you will move beyond this weakness."

1 Corinthians 8:12 - "When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ."

76 posted on 11/22/2011 9:01:05 AM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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