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Thanks for this great post, i find it very interesting and very well thought out and put together. I look forward to reading your work in the future.<br />
   <a href="http://maikanhos.com" rel="nofollow">Discover Maikan Hos</a><br />
        
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Nice to read your article! I am looking forward to sharing your adventures and experiences.<br />
    <a href="http://carwindowwtinting.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">car window tinting</a>
        
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      <![CDATA[Church sucks.  Mars Hill especially sucks.
        
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      <![CDATA[@63 Good works performed to justify bigotry are not good works. In fact, their hypocrisy generally makes things much worse. Remember the wonderful visit Ryan paid that soup kitchen to wash pots & pans? Everyone knew it was a stunt, and the backlash hurt the kitchen. What's worse is that Ryan & co. didn't do anything meaningful or lasting. <br />
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I've seen that scenario played out over & over: the whitewashers, even the true believers (aka dupes) don't make things any better, because they're not coming from a position of actually caring. They don't see those who they help as real people, but as nobodies who should feel overwhelmingly grateful that 'the chosen,' 'the saved,' 'the good people' have deigned to help them.
        
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      <![CDATA[Update: @48 wins bigger. SMASH MARS HILL
        
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      <![CDATA[the topic of the article is a tipped over FAILBOAT, but @40 wins the thread anyway
        
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      <![CDATA[@63: If you know of any MH member who doesn't hold the same views as Mark Driscoll, please forward their names to the Pastor so they can be re-educated.
        
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      <![CDATA[There is a longer article here <a href="http://crosscut.com/2013/01/09/religion/112375/mars-hill-church-downtown-pastor-tim-gaydos/?page=2" rel="nofollow">http://crosscut.com/2013/01/09/religion/&hellip;</a><br />
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I'm no apologist for Mars Hill, and would not join it, but it does sound like they do practice some good works, and I don't think every member  shares the same views as Mark Driscoll...but it's obviously offering something people want, or it wouldn't be growing.
        
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      <![CDATA[Shut up and pass me the bag of Gaydos!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[We don't have to love or tolerate cults, toots]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["... a fantastic set of morals and ways to live by, ways and morals that have been thrown to the side, so that tv and internet now run peoples beliefs and lives."<br>
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Did you not see the bit where the sermons at MH are delivered by monitor, and not in person? How is a telecast worship service any different from TV & Internet running people's beliefs and lives.<br>
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We know you are one person posting under different monikers: you can't even hide your poor mastery of English. Is this an "outreach effort?" How many people do you think you're going to persuade here? Try a different church that isn't so much about entertainment complex and megalomania, or think about what you really get out of MH. <br>
Hint hint: check Yelp.com, joyfulexiles.com. Try to think about the value of "shunning" in a "loving church committed to following Jesus."
        
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      <![CDATA[I think that people on here are just up there own backsides, firstly you are all taking what some online 'Slog' is saying, without ever thinking that things said could be turn around so it gets this kind of reaction. Secondly, why put believing people down and the church itself down? They want to help people who have HIV/AIDS, and be there for people whose families may have turned thier backs on them because of a illness. They don't preach harm or anything like that. Just a fantastic set of morals and ways to live by, ways and morals that have been thrown to the side, so that tv and internet now run peoples beliefs and lives. Self-centreness, anger and bitterness is all that is coming across from the comments on here. Nothing positive or actually thought provoking. Weather your gay or straight, rich or poor or just in need, a good church like marshill will always and should always be there to help when your in need. I dont go to this church or live in Seattle or even the USA but from what i have seen from the church the teaching is correct. <br>
Grow up, and try and use more words than just the f word lots. <br>
        
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      <![CDATA[@51- there ought to be a law or something- no Stone Age Bible Thumping Church allowed to purchase and deface historic downtown buildings.  These idiots getting their claws on that property is a crime against nature.
        
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      <![CDATA[#46 Sweetie - in Alabama the Klan cleans up trash on the roadways from time to time.  So what's your point?
        
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      <![CDATA[Well, If I didn't have the desire to troll Mars Hill before (I did - think of how fun it could be!) I certainly do now...
        
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      <![CDATA[Please don't hate God, for what the people of this Church is doing. The God I know and love, has always opened his heart to all, not just the so called straight people of the earth. Jerrel this is your Dad, and I am very proud you and I will always stand up for you.  Love Dad
        
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      <![CDATA[Oh God, I love it when Strangers nail the church!
        
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      <![CDATA[@51 - Well shit. I was hoping it wasn't <i>that</i> building at 5th and Marion. Shit. That beautiful building used to house some of the nicest Christians ever. Now I have to hate it. Damn.
        
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      <![CDATA[What ever happened to the idea of feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, clothing the naked, and nursing the wounded? Or are those ideas just no good for recruiting all the new members they need so Driscoll can buy himself another Mercedes?
        
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      <![CDATA[Goddamn it. I used to look at that building and swear to myself that if I ever won the lottery, I would buy it, lovingly restore it, and then make it the most fabulous roller derby rink in the universe. Truly there is no god, because for the universe to allow this douchecock to take that building for THIS is appalling.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:49:04 -0800</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Instead of Gay Day at Mars Hill, just show up en masse, sit down in the pews, and treat it like stand up comedy. I've gone to Mars Hill a couple times (high as fuck), and you're guaranteed some really crazy, nutjob stuff. There will be things to laugh at. Do it loudly, say things like "can you believe this guy?" so that everyone can hear. If he says something REALLY crazy, catcall the screen. The best part is that Mark Driscoll won't actually be there to respond.<br />
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Do this for a couple weeks. Less feelings of persecution, more of humiliation.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:18:53 -0800</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Hawke]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[@46, ooh they should never be called out on their blatant homophobia because they clean graffiti? And what have we been doing about it? How about fighting you fucking pieces of shit for ignoring the AIDS crisis back when it first started back in the early 80's? Where were we? Taking care of our sick community members without a heaping dose of judgmental assholery. We don't need the help of a bunch of deluded freaks who believe in an imaginary cloud being giving them the right to discriminate against others. Keep your circle jerks to your church and let the rest of us be.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:53:48 -0800</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Well, here's one thing to remember about Gay Day at Mars Hill (which sounds like a wonderful idea): Christian fundamentalists have a strong persecution complex.  They luxuriate in it.  It's them against the heathen world, dontchaknow.  So there is nothing that they would like more than a mob of angry liberals from Capitol Hill storming their new urban location and breaking their windows.  Therefore, if we do this, let's be nice about it.  Let's bring more liberal sunshine than fundie fire and brimstone.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:39:37 -0800</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[The church does serve the homeless and has created safe houses for women that have been trapped in the sex slave industry. The help the addicted, hurting and abused. It seems to me that the church does so much good, but people are stuck on a few statements that have been taken out of context. This church also gathers together and cleans the streets, scrubs graffiti off of walls and feeds the poor. When is the last time that you are I did that?
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:38:30 -0800</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Somehow they manage to keep surprising me.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:22:42 -0800</pubDate>
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