Wednesday, May 24, 2006 

May I Just Say......

CONGRATS TO FINLAND FOR WINNING THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST!
You guys kicked ass......about time that we had some decent music in the tournament for a change. Rock On Lordi!!!

3:46 PM | |

Thursday, May 18, 2006 

THE DA VINCI CODE – Blasphemy hits the screen - By Don Feder

I found this on the net and It explained really well why the Da Vinci code is such a paganistic pile of steaming horse ****.For the full article visit http://www.grasstopsusa.com/df051606.html

The Da Vinci Code might be subtitled “Religion for Morons” or “Gnosticism Meets The New Age.” It’s fantasy posing as reality. The Sony Pictures film is blasphemous, defames the Catholic Church, and promotes neo-pagan Goddess worship.

Director Ron Howard (who specializes in visual candy) assures us that Opie’s opus will be true to the novel – a pretentious, overwritten piece of trash that makes Bridget Jones’s Diary look like one of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. The plot of Dan Brown’s mega-best seller (45 million copies sold) goes like this: Jesus married Mary Magdalene, who bore his children, who became the Merovingian monarchs of France, whose descendants are running around Europe today – being chased by Opus Dei or Mormon missionaries or Martians or someone. Again, according to The Code, The Catholic Church has for centuries concealed the truth about Jesus to maintain its power. Mary Magdalene represents the “sacred feminine” – which supposedly predates monotheism – and which wicked patriarchalists have spent millennia trying to suppress, the better to deny man’s sexual nature and subjugate women.The book (and presumably the film) even has a ritualistic orgy, where communicants dance with orbs and the grand master of the book’s mysterious order gets frisky with a plump, middle-aged lady. Brown may have achieved the impossible - devised a type of mumbo-jumbo that makes “healing” crystals seem serious.

Orthodox Christians are rightly offended by The Code’s plot, denying as it does the divinity of Jesus and his mission. People are free to believe, or not believe, in Jesus. Jews and Christians have been debating the identity of the Messiah, what God requires of us and how salvation may be achieved for almost 2,000 years. But to turn the life of a man almost a billion people on this planet worship into a soap opera beggars the term insensitive.

At least Christians can take comfort in the fact that their’s isn’t the only faith maligned and misrepresented by Brown’s book. Where did Brown get his understanding of ancient Judaism – from that noted Kabbalist, Madonna? Did he discover Jewish polytheism among the documents hidden away in the Templars’ secret crypt, along with Jesus’ marriage license?As a Goddess-worshipping, neo-pagan, Brown seeks to reverse the Bible’s process of taming man’s erotic nature (by channeling it to fidelity and family), once again divorcing the sexual from the spiritual – freeing man’s hedonistic urges from Judeo-Christian constraints. That Brown has so many admirers among Hollywood libertines is unsurprising.

But why all the fuss? After all, it’s only a movie, right? The novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand was once asked why she primarily wrote fiction, instead of works of philosophy. Rand explained that it’s far easier to convey ideas through fiction than non-fiction – witness Dante’s The Divine Comedy, witness Uncle Tom’s Cabin, witness Ben-Hur, The Screwtape Letters and To Kill a Mockingbird . Novels and films aren’t footnoted. The author or screenwriter can create a thoroughly convincing universe that powerfully projects his message. From The Birth of a Nation and Triumph of The Will to Thelma and Louise and Brokeback Mountain, films have told us how to think about the world around us.Most movies present the world according to Hollywood (and the word became flesh – lots of flesh) – that the sex act is good in and of itself, that people should follow their feelings (which invariably will lead them to right conduct and happiness), that prayer is like throwing a penny in a wishing well, that God is within us, that God is love, that God makes no demands of us and that the followers of traditional religion are a bunch of uptight, puritanical, hypocritical killjoys.Debunking Christianity – which is The Da Vinci Code’s mission – advances this worldview.All too many people read novels or see films and think they’re experiencing reality. Their understanding of the complicated history of settlers and Indians comes from Dances With Wolves. They are informed about the crusades by Kingdom of Heaven. Their understanding of the theory of global warming comes from The Day After Tomorrow. According to a Barna Group survey, 24% of those who read The Da Vinci Code said it aided their “personal spiritual growth and understanding.” In other words, one in four of its readers believe the book’s thesis (as opposed to its storyline) is true. Our “personal spiritual growth” isn’t aided by what we believe to be a lie.

The best response to The Da Vinci Code – besides derisive laughter – is a boycott. Resist the urge to determine just how bad it is by buying a ticket. You’ll only be rewarding the perpetrators – perhaps encouraging The Da Vinci Code: Part II, wherein Dan Brown reveals that Jesus was really married to Lazarus.

2:38 PM | |

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 

Smudge's Six-minute Sermon( 16th May )

Verse of the week

“How many times should we forgive lord? seven times?'no' said the lord 'but seventy times seven ”

Message of the week

A very well known passage this week and an often misunderstood subject, forgiveness. We are all taught to forgive, that isn't hard to understand but why? Well' Jesus was nailed to the cross, he was the son of god, and to recieve forgiveness the ancients would offer a sacrifice. These all tie together. For the forgiveness of our sins there had to be a sacrifice, but the weight of the worlds sin there had to be a sacrifice pure of heart and perfect in God's eyes. Jesus was the only man or being that would suffice. In other words our sins nailed him to that cross and he died for us so we can be forgiven. We also need to forgive others. Not just other people but the church, too. They make mistakes as they have to walk a very fine line between alienating christians and accepting the immoral. This has lead to the acceptance of homosexuals, abortion and women priests. We must understand their predicament and accept some actions are not made with true feeling but are made at the fear of alienating the unsaved majority.

Quote of the week

“second chances, everyone without exception needs them and hence should offer them”.

Prayer of the week

Dear most glorious father help me to forgive, we are told in this world we will meet hardships and people will say and do things to upset us. Help us to forgive them as by your sons death on the cross you seaved us.

Also pray for…

More CU advertising, Our fellow CU member Skinner as he goes under the knife this week

10:07 AM | |

Monday, May 08, 2006 

Advertising - CU Style!

As with any society within Monmouth school (including the Christian Union), you need to make the students aware of what you are doing, and when you are next gonna be doing it.
SO.........as part of our advertising and marketing capabilites, we decided to advertise next weeks CU a bit.

(Note: give yourself 20 points if you can spot Luke and Smith)!




Now that is what i call one kick-ass advertisement.

7:58 PM | |

Information

  • We're the Christian Union
  • From Monmouth, Wales, United Kingdom
Our profile

Recent posts

Archives

Our Links

Email us
Syndicate this site (XML)

Skinner Says:

There is one thing that has always proven Gods existance to me (something which he doesnt do very often) and that is the creation of the world. Scientists claim that God didn't create the earth...it was the Big Bang. Bit if nothing existed before the Big Bang, then how can such a celestial explosion happen in the first place? Answer: the actions of God!

--------------------------------------

Thank you to Dr.John for his recent comment on "An interview with Jesus". He is our first foreign visitor to the CU website, and we hope for many more to come. Thanks again.

--------------------------------------

Site brought to you by:

*James Skinner

*Andrew Spencer

*Luke Dowle

*Andrew Smith

Visitors: