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Channel Ten’s The Project’s Crude Jesus Joke Controversy · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi Jeff valin. Thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope well, so much happening in the world today.
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  Anyway, enough self-promotion, let's get down to it so much
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  happening in the world today. I think I've said this before,
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  when I was younger, I loved Aerosmith and you know, that's
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  okay. Keep thinking of that song.
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  There's something happening in the world today.
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  I don't quite know what it is you know basically and once
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  what's it going to the bridge onto the course living on the
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  edge? It feels like the world's living
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  on the edge. Now obviously from my point of
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  view a Christian point of view of biblical point of view.
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  I think it's all going that way because this is where the Bible
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  said we're going. It seems blatantly obvious.
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  Blatantly obvious to me. Um, and you know, that's I think
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  that's that's what the Bible says.
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  And it seems obvious that that's where we going.
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  And it's very easy to point to what the Bible will point to
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  news headlines or where the new says, this is where the world's
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  heading and you can look back at what the Bible wrote two
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  thousand plus years ago. What's written in the Bible?
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  So I know the Bible wrote or God I wrote in the word of God, two
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  thousand plus years ago, you can see it makes sense.
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  It makes it's very easy to see the correlation, I think.
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  Anyway, a lot of people don't see it that way.
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  First thing I'm going to talk about now, I didn't I didn't
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  raise this the other week when it actually came up.
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  I just don't know what to say. Actually I didn't want to jump
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  on the bandwagon because you know everyone jumps on it at the
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  same time and they all have their opinions but just talking
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  about what happened on the project here in Australia, the
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  TV show the project which is aired on channel 10 you know and
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  channel 10. Let's face it.
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  They're just they're just a left-wing media.
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  Lay It owned by large, think it's owned by Paramount plus
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  actually. So a large American clunk
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  conglomerate just a lefty very very left-leaning, you know.
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  So the other week they've had on this, what you want to call him.
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  Is that he supposedly. Supposedly a comedian.
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  It's not very funny is extremely crude like extremely crude and
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  so he says this joke about Jesus, I want I'm not, I'm not
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  going to say what the joke was is pretty.
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  It was disgusting. Absolutely disgusting as a
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  Christian. I just, I thought it was
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  disgusting out there. That's just that utter filth
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  that they allowed on are on a show that's aired at 7:30 at
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  night that supposedly show that promotes itself as news
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  delivered differently. Where's the news?
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  In some, he's a comedian who dresses like a looks very much
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  like a woman. And dresses, like a woman.
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  I don't know what he is, a believe he's homosexual, but he
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  tells his crude absolutely crude.
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  Disgusting joke. You know, the hosts on the show.
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  One of them, I think it's named Sarah Harris.
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  She laughs, like, just a love that comes from the gut.
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  She just thought it was. Absolutely, absolutely
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  hilarious. Walid, who was supposedly devout
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  Muslim? Didn't seem that impressed, and,
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  you know, and so, obviously, because Muslims have their own
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  beliefs veggies Egypt, but, he's a bit of a, he's not on the say,
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  he's not on the same train as all the others, you know,
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  especially that Sara. She just laughs.
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  But only if, from a Christian point of view, I was thinking,
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  how do you get really annoyed me?
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  I heard only heard the joke makes the next day and I heard
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  all this uproar. And then I saw the apology that
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  they gave You know, they are both sitting there while lead
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  and Harris because they're the leads for the show.
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  You know, they're giving this stony-faced apology the look on
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  Harris's face. She just There was no sincerity
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  there, it was like, you know, someone's someone's come along,
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  and gave her a little rap on the, on the knuckles and
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  Saturday, you got to pull your head in.
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  What are you doing? Shouldn't have done this and
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  she's trying to sit there. She's sitting there awkwardly
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  like, you know, I don't really want to apologize.
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  I don't care. But, you know, I've been told to
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  do this so I'll do it. I just want to read from another
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  article is from a Christian, another Christian is article.
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  It's the daily declaration. It says a voice for values down
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  under Christian news. Do to encourage you to read.
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  It's not bad actually. So this Jenna Swain pole.
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  Sorry, Jen are five. Mispronounce your name, I do
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  apologize. Anyway so she goes on I assume
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  that's a general Jana Jana Jae aana.
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  I'm going to say Jenna but might be Jana, I'm not sure.
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  Sorry anyway this person is coming in written this response
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  on the 2nd of March talking saying earlier this week Channel
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  10 the project comedian Ruben K. So if you look up Ruben K, if
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  you want, it's not, it's not really worth.
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  All. But anyway, so it makes this
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  crude joke about Jesus on are the hosts laughed long.
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  So in response many Christians and Muslims took offense and
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  demanded an apology while he'd Waleed Aly and Sarah Harris.
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  Have issued a formal apology like I said it was it was just
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  that with all forced to do it. This article goes on to say is
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  Christians, there's a temptation to retaliate to let those
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  involve know how much offense and heard they have caused their
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  were after all insulting the one who and I like the way the one
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  who is in capitals or capital O capital W is, most precious to
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  us going on to say, as I watched the video, I wrestled with this
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  temptation, returning to the response that we should take, as
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  I reflect on the Journey of Jesus to the cross.
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  Ross. I see a man who did not
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  retaliate. I see a man who took, no
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  offense, a man. He prayed for the one spitting
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  on him and hurling insults, the man who knew his own innocence.
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  And yet did not defend himself in the face of false
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  accusations. He remained silent Jesus in a
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  moment of Extrusion dating pain, gazing over the Roman soldiers,
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  the Jewish leaders and perhaps even his disciples in the It's
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  uttered the words. Father, forgive them for.
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  They do not know what they are doing.
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  What amazing, self-restraint and Grace lies behind these words in
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  a world. That is becoming increasingly
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  hostile towards Christians. We must reflect carefully on
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  Jesus response to those from whom he faced hostility.
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  We have the opportunity to show the grace and love of Jesus to
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  the three people who mock us and we should, in fact, expect the
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  hostility in, Jesus words, if the world hates, you know, that
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  it has hated me before it hated you.
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  So look, I agree completely with what this article is saying and
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  it is good. I think as a Christian to remind
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  ourselves that yeah, Jesus was looking down, From that cross
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  while hanging on the cross. While people were spitting on
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  him filling these insults while he had already undergone
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  undergone this. Excruciating torture already
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  having Nails smashed into his body.
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  Holding him up on this cross. The, the lashings, with the this
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  whip which is this with this kind of with that holds a
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  believe it's chunks of metal and that in its threads.
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  So that it can tear the skin off your body.
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  He'd already, undergone all that.
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  And he was is. Son of God.
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  He was, is God, he could have, could have taken himself off the
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  cross and just bam. Could have and yet he you know
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  he did the will of the father and I think that is probably one
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  of the most important things as a Christian to remember.
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  We hear all these things said about Jesus, we hear
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  Christianity mocked the Bible, mocked and ridiculed.
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  We're constantly told that we need to that, you know, the
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  Bible needs to come up, you know.
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  With the times move with the times, Christians are, you know
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  how we just? We just fools, we hold onto this
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  outdated, belief system, apparently, and yet it's not our
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  job to as a Christian, as a believer in the word of God, it
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  is not our job to retaliate. As as the Riders pointed out
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  here. Jesus was hanging on the cross
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  and says, looking out over the people who had tortured him, Who
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  turned their back on him, basically, and saying, father,
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  forgive them for they do not know what they are doing and has
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  it as he had already said. If the world hates, you know,
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  that it has hated me before it hated you.
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  This is the thing that Christians need to remember.
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  These are actually, I actually feel sad when I when I did hear
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  the joke, when I was looking at this person who was telling this
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  x, this crude disgusting joke. I don't feel angry.
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  I feel sad for this person. Ruben K.
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  This person just doesn't that they don't believe in God.
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  They have no real. Hope they've rejected God.
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  They don't really understand what they're doing.
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  They just pawns, I believe they're just pawned by the
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  devil. They don't understand exactly
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  what they're doing in the real ramifications of what they're
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  doing. As a Christian, we need to be
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  coming in a and yeah, I owe do agree.
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  Okay. The projects to disgusting show,
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  I would call for it to be happy for it to be taken off air.
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  I think the Program itself needs to learn a lesson because they
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  allow this kind of disgusting comment, but at the same time we
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  want to be able to show love and say hey this isn't just we don't
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  need any other kind of retaliation, we need to pray for
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  these people. They have no hope in their lives
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  and people who have rejected God and don't have hope they say
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  these stupid things, they've got no idea because they don't, they
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  don't care, they don't understand what they really
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  saying. But at the same time, I am
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  Awful. I'm all for Channel 10.
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  Getting a spanking in the ratings.
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  I'm all for the project getting taken off air.
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  Go. Hot.
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  We should voice their opinion. Tell The World.
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  Hey, this is not right. But at the same time, we need to
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  show love and show that. And remember, God was God was
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  mocked ridiculed tortured on that cross and he still came
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  across with love. Humility saying father, forgive
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  them for they do not know what they are doing.
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  That was the words of Jesus. So that's my opinion.
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  It's disgusting as it was and is As much as I'd love to see the
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  project get a good spanking from the network.
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  I also just died had pity them and I would pray that these
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  people before. It's too late.
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  Come to understand the gravity of their, of their words or what
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  they're saying. That's my opinion.
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