Using Christ to sell Porn

aquafireaquafire
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I am appalled.



People round here would know me to be a believer...and as a believer, I am called to be loving and to show patience and forebearance.



But I must admit to be groaning under the strain, as a result of discovering that there is a porn company called " Jesus loves porn "



I understand the right to free speech, but when it insults a basic corner stone of many peoples faith across the world..I get angry...Is there no limit to depravity ?







Imagine the outrage if the site was called Mahomet loves porn or Buddha loves porn.



Don't get me wrong, I love the beauty of the human form..and as a painter, it is the toughest challenge for me to paint to nude..so I don't mind looking at the body from an artist's point of view.



But this is an entirely different purpose...one that is evil...or at minimum deliberately insulting...
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  • Reply 1 of 34
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Who is Mahomet? Don't you mean Mohamed? Anyway, there would be huge outrage, but do you think that anyone's going to accidently type jesuslovesporn.com? If they're looking for it, it doesn't really matter what it's called.
  • Reply 2 of 34
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    how did you happen to come across this site?
  • Reply 3 of 34
    moogsmoogs Posts: 4,296member
    I don't know, but I agree with him. Whoever coined that site name / idea is a piece of shit.
  • Reply 4 of 34
    mlnjrmlnjr Posts: 230member
    Well when so many Catholic priests are involved in far worse than pornography (as in not looking at porn but actually committing sexual crimes) I can't really get too upset about "using Christ to sell porn." I think the company is getting the exactly the reaction it's expecting from people who are offended by the company name. Fervently religious people are an easy target.



    What would Jesus beat off to?
  • Reply 5 of 34
    wrong robotwrong robot Posts: 3,907member
    Hey jesus Christ isn't the only jesus out there...what if the webmaster just happens to be named jesus you ever think of that?























    (yes I am aware that probably 99% of the people out there named jesus were named after jesus christ)



    (yes, it was a joke)
  • Reply 6 of 34
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Hey, thanks for the site reference bud.



    And no, I don't think it's all that bad, I'm not religious, but either way there's bigger problems in the world...
  • Reply 7 of 34
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    It's probably a site for mexican porn sluts.



    "hay-zeus" loves porn



    "Yeah, that jesus mang, he's inta porn in eh big way, holmes"
  • Reply 8 of 34
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    mebbe not, the Biblical Jesus did hang around with a lot of prostitutes, and we also refer to intimate sexual contact as "biblical" knowledge of someone, ie, in the expression, "in the biblical sense"
  • Reply 9 of 34
    bungebunge Posts: 7,329member
    I love it. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. Freedom of expression.



    I really do think it's great. I want no protections for anyone. Porn on every doorstep. The U.S.A. is just too puritanical for my tastes. Time for the pendulum to swing the other way. Or, for a bad pun, time for it to swing both ways.
  • Reply 10 of 34
    moogsmoogs Posts: 4,296member
    No protection for anyone... until someone slanders your ass and ruins your reputation, possibly your career. But hey, anything in the name of free speech.



    ANYTHING taken to extremes is unhealthy, including hiding everything you say behind free speech.



  • Reply 11 of 34
    fellowshipfellowship Posts: 5,038member
    Life is not worth getting bent out of shape over poor taste and insults. The topic you mention is meaningless and pointless. Not worth one second of time. Move on and focus on what is meaningful.



    just my 2 cents.



    Fellows
  • Reply 12 of 34
    bungebunge Posts: 7,329member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by FellowshipChurch iBook

    Life is not worth getting bent out of shape over poor taste and insults. The topic you mention is meaningless and pointless. Not worth one second of time. Move on and focus on what is meaningful.



    This guy is 100% correct.



    If you like porn, go enjoy it. If you don't, don't.
  • Reply 13 of 34
    aquafireaquafire Posts: 2,758member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Paul

    how did you happen to come across this site?



    I came across it..or more to the point it was imposed on me while I was looking at some photographic / painting site. Obviously one of their "paid" advertisements..



    I wasn't happy about it so I sent them an email outlining my displeasure.
  • Reply 14 of 34
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    I'm sure it makes a lot of people come very enthusiastically. Religion, taboo, fetish, porn, SEX. Things that often have become entangled in a gordian knot of sorts. There are a select few people (couples) who get thoroughly excited by having sex in a church, on the altar, in the confession booth, ... The way church has traditionally dealt with sex may very well be the cause of that (+ of course the mechanics of taboo).



    Moreover, I think it is wrong to be "hogging" Jesus. Jesus came, dixit the scripture, for all of us, not just for those who [snip] never got past the letter of the 4 gospels, whereas it is the spirit that should guide us (or you, maybe).
  • Reply 15 of 34
    stupider...likeafoxstupider...likeafox Posts: 1,618member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Aquafire

    it was imposed on me while I was looking at some photographic / painting site.



    Those photographers must be complete porn-hounds.



    I just bought a digital camera but before I did I went to Amazon to check it out. With a completely fresh account (no history) I looked at just this camera and the two suggested related items I should buy were both porn DVDs, one about a double-D housewife and one about horny teens.



    I have to say it made me feel a bit disappointed in Amazon, especially as I was at work at the time, and as I hadn't logged in or anything they had no way of knowing my age.
  • Reply 16 of 34
    aquafireaquafire Posts: 2,758member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by stupider...likeafox

    Those photographers must be complete porn-hounds.



    I just bought a digital camera but before I did I went to Amazon to check it out. With a completely fresh account (no history) I looked at just this camera and the two suggested related items I should buy were both porn DVDs, one about a double-D housewife and one about horny teens.



    I have to say it made me feel a bit disappointed in Amazon, especially as I was at work at the time, and as I hadn't logged in or anything they had no way of knowing my age.



    Actually, it's not the painters & photographers using the site..its the web site owners themselves...



    Seems like a lot of web site owners will just take the $$$$$'s and run regardless of who might be viewing their pages



    Furthermore, what i am objecting too is the apparent lack of controls over the names for websites.

    I am sure that these Jesus porn people chose that name to be provocative & offensive..



    Isn't there some law in the states that prevents the creating of websites either in name or in content that vilifies, or encourages hatred of groups or their faith ?

    ....
  • Reply 17 of 34
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Aquafire

    ..snip..

    I am sure that these Jesus porn people chose that name to be provocative & offensive..

    ...snip...



    And I think you have proven that they are getting exactly the reaction they wanted.
  • Reply 18 of 34
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by iBrowse

    And I think you have proven that they are getting exactly the reaction they wanted.



    Terrorists get the reaction they want too. I know its on a very different scale and they're not really killing anyone. Hey I like porn as much as the next guy, but they may be shooting themselves in the foot. How many porn loving christians would shun the site because it makes them feel guilty? The only thing worse would be www.godiswatchingyou.com .
  • Reply 19 of 34
    aquafireaquafire Posts: 2,758member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by iBrowse

    And I think you have proven that they are getting exactly the reaction they wanted.



    But it is hardly going to make me want to visit their site...
  • Reply 20 of 34
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Aquafire

    Isn't there some law in the states that prevents the creating of websites either in name or in content that vilifies, or encourages hatred of groups or their faith ?



    jesuslovesporn.com? Wow, now I truly hate christianity!???
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