I live in Tennessee and there are several ‘Christian’ businesses around here. I wouldn’t trust any of them in any way.
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Yup. Glad to know the headline didn’t mean some nasty fifty shades of grey type business.
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Oddly, there is a tiny Mennonite community in Shropshire, UK,who run a Christian business. They appear to be very nice people. But then they decided to live in Shropshire, which is the bit of England that most foreigners imagine rural England to be like.
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Earned reputation is one thing. The ichthos tribal marking is another.
In the south, it appears to me that the christian branding only serves as a signal that the business cuts corners because tge bible club knows they don’t have to snitch when god’s watching.
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The belief that the word means “rope” rather than “camel” has actual scholarly support. But in addition there is the obviousness. It’s clear that Jesus’ audience numbered a lot of fishermen, people very familiar with ropes and with needles (for making and mending nets.) Talking about trying to thread a mooring rope through a needle is a natural metaphor, referring to camels is not.
But as you remark it is unpopular with the “prosperity gospel” crowd who fantasise about a city gate called the “Eye of the needle”, because the rope version rules that out completely.
It’s odd how many large societies depend so heavily on the meaning of obscure texts for their social operation even when they actually function on science and engineering. The Middle East may have the Qu’ran, but the US has the Bible, the Book of Mormon and a written Constitution, all of which often stand as stumbling blocks in the way of progress (another NT reference).
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He used the word “really” three times in three sentences, and not in a slangy way. If that’s not a guilty liar’s tell then I don’t know what is.
Yeah, whenever I see a business use the fish in their advertising or signage, I immediately distrust whoever runs it. Using one’s religion to market one’s business seems like such a cynical move and, well, contrary to Christian values.
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Well, I’m sure they’d be happy to talk about how easy it is for a rope to go through a gate, but they tend to have a basically uneducated, “literal” reading, skewed such that it fits what they’d like it to say. “Camel” = rope requires “interpretation,” something they claim not to do (even though this is impossible), but then they have to use some sort of bogus folk wisdom to make it work, so the “needle” has to become something big like a gate. (Historical context is right out, as that requires scholarship, which introduces uncertainty.) And the idea that rich people aren’t going to get into heaven is contrary to their beliefs, so suddenly Jesus is talking about how it’s easier for a rich man to get into heaven than [some easy thing], which is hilarious in context.
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Not to Supply Side Jesus!
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CWAA
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Not if you’re a greedy asshole!
It means that it’s EASIER THAN EASY.
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“My money will lubricate my entry into Heaven!”
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Nah, it’s just that if you say you and your buddies were having a round of “cornhole” out on the lawn after you’d had a few drinks, we think something else entirely…
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Besides that “cornhole” is in scare quotes for plenty of reasons beyond “white trash” (and you know better at that) it’s played well outside of the Midwest.
Interestingly, there’s at least some evidence that the sex reference was derived from the lawn game.
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Neat, thanks! I don’t know if that’ll lead to more or less tittering than ever 
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eew! I read it, and while I have no problem with the act, reading it described as “throwing a small sack at a hole (misread) with corn in it” gave me an entirely too graphic mental image. I think it was the mention of corn. Okay… I’ll tell my inner giggly teen to shut the hell up now…
That is interesting though, the etymology part that is.
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Headline: Christians Stand Firm For Cornholing!
So this “Christian” business gets a double whammy with it’s name. It’s unconsciously sexual and ironic since they took down the site the minute their malfeasance is discovered.
Or many small businesses regardless of their religious branding. Small businesses tend to suck to work for.
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