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Heh! I *just* posted about this. The local news did a story on it this morning and I just could not stop laughing.

Ewww.

So many thoughts running through my mind...none are good ones..hahaha..I'll pass on this one too.

That is hilarious. I wonder what it smells like. My guess is frankensence and myrhh.

I am still working on what to think about the apparently growing popularity of commercializing christianity.

First it was TV and radio "evangelists" seeking money donations in exchange for audio tapes, books, and other "gifts." Now it's candles?

The commercializing of Christianity is an enormous problem today, as blatantly evidenced by the numerous items for sale. Jesus tried to remedy the commercializing of religion by driving the merchants and money-changers from the temple.

Quite frankly, I find it objectionable that modern
Christianity has become so overrun by commercial hucksters who feel they have the right to convert the sharing of God's word into nothing more than another worldly business venture.

I don't believe anyone should sell the word of God, with the exception of a bible and only to pay for printing costs.

I firmly believe in what the Lord taught us in the Gospels when He said:

"...freely ye have received, freely give." (Matthew 10:8b)

In my view, to put a price on the word of God is to say that the only ones who are worthy of hearing it are those who are willing to pay for it. This is in direct contradiction to the whole Spirit of the Bible.

This is NOT the method which Jesus and His followers practiced.

It is simply a matter of greed, trying to make a profit from the word of God. I abhor the thought of comercializing religion.

As it states in the bible:

"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of
thieves." (Matthew 21:12-13)

I believe that Christ would want his word to be spread, yes, but absent of such hippocrisy. One does not sell their soul to Christ, they give it unto him. How dare they put such a notion out there. People like this make me question what a true Christian is. Heck, once I read an article that I thought was trying to explain why a person needs to be baptized to have salvation, then at the end I found out that they were trying to sell a book. I do not like to be toyed with like that. Faith is a serious issue. Commercialism should not be the way it is spread, for, so many leave the church due to hippocrisies and misunderstandings.