For the Love of Christ

This guy is a whacko and an a**hole. Fear has always been used as a means of control. To do so "for Jesus" is especially f**ked up. But, you protest, he's just trying to "save" them from "hell", right? Only if you believe a "loving God" is capable of making a place of eternal torture for his "children". That's more an indication of how f**ked up your beliefs are than anything else.

God didn't create a hell, the devil did. God doesn't want anyone but the devil and his followers to go and stay in hell. God never meant for humans to go to hell. Therefore, hell wasn't created for the people of God.
If you are a sinner, you are a follower of the devil whether you believe in him or not. Followers of the devil will go to hell with the devil. If you are a sinner, and you ask Jesus to come in your heart, and live according to the Holy Scriptures, then you'll have a one way ticket to heaven, "It is through that way only."
Many teens commit suicide, even if you claim to be a Christian and take your life, you will spend eternity in hell along with the unbelievers. If you turn your back on God, and curse him, you will spend your eternity in hell.
You say, "He doesn't exist, it's all in those stupid Christian's mind."
What are you going to do when you die and find it does exists?
All this guy is trying to do, is save the teens from the what if it does exists event.

What I meant was that this guy does not represent biblical Christianity. And that magazines like this will highlight guys like this but will never, ever, do a story of an authentic Christian missionary or Pastor; taking pretty much the sentiment like yourself who thinks all Christianity is absurd; authentic or not.

True Biblical Christianity does work, why don't you do some research. Right about 1963 when Christian prayer/bible was nationally/formally taken out of american schools; see how all the charts on crime, teenage pregnancy, drug use, etc and etc sky hooked off the charts - right after 1963. I know you may think teaching kids that we came from amoebas or that we all come from some impersonal cosmic consciousness may do the trick but in my parents day they had no Columbines; it wasn't perfect back then but it was light years from what it is now.

By the way this guy is Roman Catholic; just what is your definition of "fundamental Christian" seems like that can mean most anything these days.

Nothing more torturous than long winded Christians!

And about this article misreprenting Justin:

One can read between the lines and this article would have to be 90% a boldface lie in order to begin to allow legitimacy for this preacher of the false gospel. Which I know is not the case. The whole reason these rags print these kinds of stories is because they make christians looks nutty, which is what they want to do, when's the last time one of these main-line magazines did an article on a Billy Graham crusade (when he was touring a short while ago) get the picture.

You adults who allow this will reap the results 5, 10, 15 years down the line and they won't be pretty.

Blind leading the blind.

Why would anyone practice a religion that is based on deceit, violence, and death?

For example, in the so-called ???beginning,??? of this wonderful religion, God created Adam and Eve, a tempting tree, and a deceitful snake.

As we all know, Eve decides to eat from the tempting tree because the serpent encourages her to do it. After eating from the forbidden tree Eve wants to share the ill-gotten fruit with Adam, who gladly partakes in the forbidden item.

Under normal circumstances, what might be a good punishment for stealing fruit? An apology and payment for the goods? Maybe suspension from the Garden of Eden for a few days? NO, these punishments are insanely light compared to what God meted out. God forced Adam and all humankind to toil/work for a living for the rest of their lives, while Eve and all women were punished by monthly menstrual cycles and the pains of child birth.

Both Adam and Eve and all of their children and their children's children (humankind) were banished from eternal bliss or heaven. That is, the only way humankind will be allowed into heaven again is if God's only son (yet to be created) comes to earth and dies a brutal and violent death. Isn???t this divine child abuse! Does Jesus' brutal killing violate God's own commandment of "Thou shalt not kill?"

So was Jesus setup by God? God is omniscient and therefore knew Adam and Eve would eat from the tempting tree setting up Jesus' gruesome death, so everyone (humankind) would be forgiven for Adam and Eve's mistake. God planned the murder of his son for a very long time. It was a premeditated, millenniums long murder plan. (Talk about holding a grudge.)

We wear reminders of Christ's brutal death (a cross) as a sign of peace. How does a violent death signify love and peace? If gas chambers and guns had been around at the time of Christ, would we wear gas chambers and guns as jewelry if Jesus had died in the gas chamber or by a firing squad? And, instead of the sign of the cross would we point a finger out like a pistol and say "bang, bang" when we entered church in order to remember the death by gunfire?

Why does God keep sending messengers who start new religions that fight with the old religions started by messengers sent by God? If God is omnipotent and omniscient, then why doesn't he/she tell us exactly what we need to do for salvation? God could create a book called "Heaven for Dummies" which would be a kind and gentle way to get us on the correct trajectory.

Isn't God getting a little tired of all the miscommunications, brutality, violence, talking bushes, talking snakes, visions, killings, rapes, slavery, etc. in the name of God?

So is Christianity about God impregnating an unmarried woman and then killing his only child from that liaison? Do you want to spend eternity with a child abuser, killer, homophobic, egotistical, megalomaniac? If not, then I invite you to question your beliefs.

Men are the only ones practicing "deceit, violence, and death" not God or his Christ. Quit being a fool and blathering about things you know nothing about. Christ died on the cross to pay for the sins of those who will trust in that payment and recieve Christ as saviour and Lord. Your only fooling yourself and the simple minded with your pseudo-intellectualism. Here come da atheists and Christianity bashers - the only belief system that America is fast becoming intolerant of.

Making a killing in profits while humiliating and threatening kids? Yep, sounds like a Catholic holy man. Whatever happened to helping the poor and the meek? Maybe if these snake-oil salesmen actually practiced what their magical sky-gods preached then kids would pick it up from there.

This guy has issues and I have no doubt you will read about him again before it is all over.