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Related: About this forumChurch Sign: 'God Wants Spiritual Fruits, Not Religious Nuts' Gets Strong Reaction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/god-wants-spiritual-fruit-church-sign_n_2426026.htmlPosted: 01/08/2013 7:12 am EST | Updated: 01/08/2013 11:32 am EST
A small church on Madison Avenue in New York City is turning heads these days -- especially to look at the church's messages out front.
"Its amazing the amount of attention that those signs get," Brian Crowson, office manager of Madison Avenue Baptist Church told The Huffington Post, "We've been in the New York Post, the Drudge Report and others."
Sometimes the signs from this small Baptist church get political. After one election Crowson put up a quote from Will Rogers that read: 'The problem with political jokes is sometimes they get elected.'
Rev. Susan Sparks is the Senior Pastor of Madison Avenue Baptist Church as well as an established stand up comic. Pastor Sparks told The Huffington Post that she loves the reactions to the signs:
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GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)It was refreshing compared to their usual lamitudes.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)and rational!
cbayer
(146,218 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)I find the non denominational ones pretty good. And I am a non believer. I like to hear love and kindness preached and put into action.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)There are a wide variety of both believers and non-believers who post here and it's a great opportunity to see many different perspectives. And, for the most part, there is a great deal of love and kindness going around.
icnorth
(1,014 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)Religious don't have much of a sense of humor about their beliefs either
cbayer
(146,218 posts)skepticscott
(13,029 posts)So you don't get a welcome. Hope you weren't expecting much. Double standards are rampant among the group's self-appointed scolds and thought police.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)TrogL
(32,818 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)What kinds of things do the locals put on their signs?
TrogL
(32,818 posts)They have absolutely no conception of the Trinity.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Except when you think it's OK, apparently.