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June 20th, 2013
10:22 AM ET
Exodus apologizes to gay community, shuts down 'cure' ministry(CNN) - After 37 years, Exodus International, an organization whose mission was to "help" gay Christians become straight, is shutting down. But not before issuing an apology. "We're not negating the ways God used Exodus to positively affect thousands of people, but a new generation of Christians is looking for change - and they want to be heard," Tony Moore, an Exodus board member, said Wednesday. The announcement comes less than a day after Exodus issued a wide-ranging apology to the gay community for "years of undue judgment by the organization and the Christian Church as a whole," a statement from the group says. "Exodus is an institution in the conservative Christian world, but we've ceased to be a living, breathing organism," said Alan Chambers, the president of Exodus. "For quite some time, we've been imprisoned in a worldview that's neither honoring toward our fellow human beings, nor biblical." Chambers, who has a wife and children and previously identified as gay, has acknowledged that he has "ongoing same-sex attractions." FULL STORY
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This has got to be one of the most disturbing and upsetting Christian heresies in recent history. Imagine, apologizing for having helped (or tried to help) sinners see the Truth about their sins and turning them to God's grace for redemption...which is through faith and dependency on Jesus Christ. This new "leader" turns them back to their own ways and makes a mockery out of the cross, which was all done so we may believe in Him so we may enter God's kingdom. That's TRUE LOVE! What this man just did is true hate...though the world sees it the other way around. And to think that this organization's slogan is "Reaching the World in Grace and Truth". It's more like "reaching the world by disgrace and lies". All this is and should always be is a warning to all sinners alike, to avoid eternal condemnation. It is not a call to judge others, to blast them, to insult them, and to much less hate them. It is a call to repentance from our sins and to turn to Him for salvation of our soul...just as we were once warned.
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At least 4 out of the 9 got it right. Sadly, 2 were led astray 🙁
You can whine and cry all you want. You lost twice in one day DA'MN.
Waaah, waaah, waaaah
The entire "pray away the gay" concept was sick, sad and totally embarassing. I'm surprise it existed to begin with.
You were surprised by that?
Dirve out fear...end the hate!
Ceilbacy can free the sinner from the abyss of suffering.
Reach out with the hand of fellowship and welcome the celibate sinner
back from the abyss.
There is room for sinners to repent at the foot of the old rugged cross.
Dougie, your horrid Christian users guide AKA the bible is really not a good source of guidance for anything, given its evil content such as the following:
From both evil testaments, and note what I have to say about context and interpretation below:
Numbers 31:17-18
17 Now kiII all the boys. And kiII every woman who has slept with a man,
18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
Deuteronomy 13:6 – “If your brother, your mother’s son or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul entice you secretly, saying, let us go and serve other gods … you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death”
Revelations 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Leviticus 25
44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.
46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
Note that the bible is also very clear that you should sacrifice and burn an animal today because the smell makes sicko Christian sky fairy happy. No, you don't get to use the parts for food. You burn them, a complete waste of the poor animal.
Yes, the bible really says that, everyone. Yes, it's in Leviticus, look it up. Yes, Jesus purportedly said that the OT commands still apply. No exceptions. But even if you think the OT was god's mistaken first go around, you have to ask why a perfect, loving enti-ty would ever put such horrid instructions in there. If you think rationally at all, that is.
And then, if you disagree with my interpretation, ask yourself how it is that your "god" couldn't come up with a better way to communicate than a book that is so readily subject to so many interpretations and to being taken "out of context", and has so many mistakes in it. Pretty pathetic god that you've made for yourself.
So get out your sacrificial knife or your nasty sky creature will torture you eternally. Or just take a closer look at your foolish supersti-tions, understand that they are just silly, and toss them into the dustbin with all the rest of the gods that man has created.
Ask the questions. Break the chains. Join the movement.
Be free of Christianity and other superstitions.
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/
They are not suffering, Doogie. You are the one who is suffering. Closet too confining?
Genuinely no matter if someone doesn't understand after that its up to other viewers that they will assist, so here it happens.
Never give up, never give in;
for you Can get over it,
and GOD will absolutely help.
http://www.holy-19-harvest.com
=UNIVERSAL MAGNIFICENT MIRACLES
If your fairy is so good why does IT need an old outdated web site ?
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Wow – this is a big deal.
Exodus International is closing down with an honest admission that it was fueled by hate and the and a willful ignorance of the futility of prayer.
I guess prayer doesn't change things after all.
I wonder if Michelle Bachmann's husband will come out now?
Depart from me, I never knew you.
Se-x and the stork thing !
You know !
It was not the horn0y red devil in the bedVrooooom
What a joke below !...............that damn matrix .............include self too AH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/pope-francis-atheists-can-be-good
Go fvck yourself
whoo hoo nature triumphed over man made delusional religious thinking .
Good. About time.
sup? u r needlessly defensive. y do u care what someone calls drinking 8 glasses of wine per night for 10 years?
as an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol, g a es may be powerless over their same secks secksal desires. some r powerless over their secksal urges for secks with opposite secks, finding their diseased cups need 2 b emptied and refilled with god and by god in his way and in his time, he may open new vistas for secksal fulfillment undreamed of b4. he kinda did create secks
nazis r so boring. no imagination or capacity to consider infinite possibilities
Happy Atheist
to faith I ask, what do you call drinking two bottles of wine a night for more than a decade? a problem drinker? My doctor said I had a problem with alcohol, but i'm pretty sure he meant I was an alcoholic. If you are implying that because I was able to quit without God then I must not have been addicted then you are a moron (but I think that had already been established).
Are you really that dim that you are comparing alcoholism with being gay? Can you just give up being hetero? Go to some basement meetings? You are one stupid person. And Nazis were Christian, you nincompoop. So you are condemning the very people you are supposed to represent.
Infinite possibilities? Infinite lies. You are one of the bigger ones here.
Faith, you understand very little about alcoholism, and even less about human sexuality. You are either very, very young, very, very old, or very, very uneducated.
faith is a troll
how is that lawsuit coming, gash?
Do you know why the US forces are there in the Middle east region?
Do you know why they are talking too much about the NEW Middle east?
Do you know why events are running very fast in the Middle east area?
Because the Christ will come back again in the Middle east area ( where he born) and where the final battle will take place.
So the antichrist is preparing the stage for that by sending his forces (US forces) to fight Muslims and the Christ (his killer)
When he comes back.
So in the media all Muslims must be terrorists and must be killers to make it easy to convince peoples to fight them.
The media will show the antichrist as the hero who came to save the mankind.
The antichrist succeeded in making people forget about him.
But he is there planning for the final battle.
Hey creationists and the supreme court is going to rule when ?
That se-x deal and love ?
Face it: Monogamy is unnatural
By Meghan Laslocky, Special to CNN
updated 11:02 AM EDT, Fri June 21, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/21/opinion/laslocky-monogamy-marriage/index.html?eref=rss_opinion&cid=sf_twitter
LIGHT .... seems you live in a fantasy world of imaginary demons and deities ... of which there are none really.
Prayer changes things.
I'm sure that is true. What is interesting, is that prayer changes things and there isn't a god there. Much like a high school football coach changes things with an inspirational speech before the game. There are no guarantees in speeches or prayer, but it surely can change state of mind.
Now if you think prayer gets some god into action for you, you are just deluded. If you think prayer makes things happen without your personal action and behavior, you're deluded.
you are wrong but that shouldn't come as a surprise to you
as always,
I'm wrong that prayer changes things?
you are wrong that there is no God beyond that you're a real idiot as well aren't you
as always,
Ad hominem is not effective at influencing people.
Influence on the block heads that frequent these blogs is an exercise in futility. The God haters and atheist /qu eer bigots that think they have something to say are not going to be affected by evidence, reason or common sense.
As always, I'm a troll queer and I resent that.
It is sad to see such immature people as 'as always'. Not believing in some sort of so called 'god' doesn't make one a god hater. They can't accept that others feel their beliefs are just a bunch of myths. BUT of course these same Christians believe the beliefs of all other regions are just a bunch of myths.
The hate for God comes out daily in these posts, who are you trying to kid. You just referred to God as god {small G) what is that your respect and terms of endearment or a knowingly vicious hate motivated slur.
As always; I say 'god' because I don't have any definition of 'god'. The term is meaningless to me (thus I couldn't have any hate towards 'it' either), but I do understand how meaningful the term is to others.
Why can't you accept that others feel differently about this so called 'god'.
I'm just applauding your implementation of actual spelling and grammar after skimming a couple of the posts that appeared above yours. Could this be a sign of the return of literacy, as foretold in the not-so-ancient text messages?
I'm not a god hater. I don't believe in god.
I'm also not a Santa Claus hater, or a Tooth Fairy hater.
1000
@Secrect – 666
Actually CNN is a very respectable channel...they always want to remind us with 9-11 attacks so they designed their logo by that way to remind us with the attacks.
See now how they are very clever in that:
Read the logo upside down you will get MD..............means (M)onth and (D)ay.
Read it from left to right you will get.............. 9111....... means 9-11-01.
Read it from right to left you will get.............. WTC...... read the T upside down.
Thanks CNN for that.
What ?
LIGHT,
So CNN knew 911 was coming and so selected that for their name.
You're a riot!
thos like you the antichrist was awaiting for many years.
Send all the qu eers on a one way cruise to the island of misfit toys, no one needs or wants them anyway. Qu eers the people who gave AIDS to the world.
I wonder if Anderson Cooper is the moderator for this story? If he is this comment won't last very long.
Ignorant bigot alert.
The reason you're so angry is because you know that your POV is now a minority POV. So it isn't that no one like THEM. The real truth is that less and less people wish to associated with people with your POV. YOU are now the outcast. I find that very funny but I can understand why it makes you angry.
Pervert alert and as always are the same person, spewing the same tired trollish garbage.
Where is as always on this thread, i cannot find it?
Thanks, Exodus International for bailing on us! Thanks for perpetuating a lie to those who believed in your ministry. Thanks for leaving scores of parents whose children have CHOSEN to live in direct opposition to God and His word to fend for themselves!!!
All religion is a lie. Get over it.
Any parent who gives their child over to a "ministry" like Exodus International has already failed their children.
1 John 2:16
For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
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1939 // epiyumia // epithumia // ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah //
from 1937 ; TDNT – 3:168,339; n f
AV – lust 31, concupiscence 3, desire 3, lust after 1; 38
1) desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust
For Synonyms see entry 5845 & 5906
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4561 // sarx // sarx // sarx //
probably from the base of 4563 ; TDNT – 7:98,1000; n f
AV – flesh 147, carnal 2, carnally minded + 5427 1, fleshly 1; 151
1) flesh (the soft substance of the living body, which covers
the bones and is permeated with blood) of both man and beasts
2) the body
2a) the body of a man
2b) used of natural or physical origin, generation or
relationship
2b1) born of natural generation
2c) the sensuous nature of man, "the animal nature"
2c1) without any suggestion of depravity
2c2) the animal nature with cravings which incite to sin
2c3) the physical nature of man as subject to suffering
3) a living creature (because possessed of a body of flesh)
whether man or beast
4) the flesh, denotes mere human nature, the earthly nature of man apart
from divine influence, and therefore prone to sin and opposed to God
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3788 // oftalmov // ophthalmos // of-thal-mos' //
from 3700 ; TDNT – 5:375,706; n m
AV – eye 101, sight 1; 102
1) the eye
2) metaph. the eyes of the mind, the faculty of knowing
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212 // alazoneia // alazoneia // al-ad-zon-i'-a //
from 213 ; TDNT – 1:226,36; n f
AV – boasting 1, pride 1; 2
1) empty, braggart talk
2) an insolent and empty assurance, which trusts in its own
power and resources and shamefully despises and violates
divine laws and human rights
3) an impious and empty presumption which trusts in the
stability of earthy things
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979 // biov // bios // bee'-os //
a primary word; TDNT – 2:832,290; n m
AV – life 5, living 5, good 1; 11
1) life
1a) life extensively
1a1) the period or course of life
1b) that by which life is sustained, resources, wealth, goods
For Synonyms see entry 5821
HeavenSent,
Just some cut-and-paste. Can't you think for yourself and come up with your own words?
Prayer changes things,
Obviously not.
Obviously so.
Throwing dice changes things.
I will give you one challenge and a miracle at the same time.
I can bring you thousands and millions of Muslims who can read the Quran from the first page to the last one without looking at the book.
I can bring you children with 05 and 06 years who can read the Quran by the same way without a single mistake.
I can bring you non Arabs of Muslims don't know the Arabic language can read all the Quran by the same way.
now you are requested to bring us one Christian can read the bible without looking at the bible.
If you can not bring one Christian can read just one page from your many bibles without looking at the book.
Quran is only holy book on Earth now.
The koran is demonic bull sh it! Challenge taken, defined and defeated.
70 years ago I could have shown you scores of children in HItler's youth leagues who could read Mein Kampf without looking at the book. Does that make Mein Kampf a holy book?
Today I can show you millions of Chinese who can read pages from Mao's Little Red Book without reading it. Does that make it a holy book also?
Cultural adoption is not measure of truth!
luke
lies will not work.
show me one of them.
show me one outside china from another nationality can read that (LITTLE) red book without reading it.
show me some blinds can read it all without looking at it.
show me one child with just 05 years old can read it all without a single mistake.
You bypassed the simple Truth that the koran is demonic bull sh it in the first place.
Wasting one's time with this much religious nonsense would go a long way to explaining why most predominantly fundamentalist Muslim countries can't make an economic success without sitting on top of an oil field. What a sad waste of brain power.
Old money no in god we trust ?
Shocking! CNN actually covers Bilderberg conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epZs8QV26TY
http://grailcode.net/
Brain power and money leaves god out.
Very old money fossil fuels
John D Rockefeller and Standard Oil. The nightmare begins...
http://www.bilderberg.org/whatafel.htm
Essay takes a critical view of Rockefeller's "greed, not philanthropy." Also includes the final chapter of Ida Tarbell's book, The History of the Standard Oil ...
And I remember a LONG time ago it was 25 cents US a gallon ! (but it was not unleaded )
Hey light................take the test it will shed light on where you are from.
DNA tests reveal Prince William's Indian ancestry
By Peter Wilkinson, CNN
updated 12:48 PM EDT, Fri June 14, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/14/world/europe/britain-prince-william-india/?iref=obnetwork
Hey creationists...............the se-x thingy and you know evolution...........wins hands down.
Two Mutations Triggered an Evolutionary Leap 500 Million Years Ago
June 24, 2013 — Evolution, it seems, sometimes jumps instead of crawls. A research team led by a University of Chicago scientist has discovered two key mutations that sparked a hormonal revolution 500 million years ago.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130624152617.htm
Can the pope be good and say............. no fairy in the sky needed ?..............lmfao
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/22/pope-francis-atheists-can-be-good
A Conversation with Richard Dawkins and John Huddlestun (College of Charleston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21NoQuKTB8Q
To funny jboom is chirping where jboom ?