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View Poll Results: Cremation or No Cremation?
Yes 21 53.85%
No 9 23.08%
Not Sure 7 17.95%
It is Sinful to cremate a Christian 2 5.13%
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Old 05-03-2007, 04:24 PM
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o come on randy you are going to compare shopping and exchanging a gift to cremation???
at least christmas celebrates the life of christ
The Point is some think the Christmas Tree is a Pagan Practice that we say it's okay because we are using it to celebrate the Birth of Christ and give gifts...

You are willing to argue that Cremation is a slap in the face of God because it's also pagan and yet give the Christmas tree a pass???
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Old 05-03-2007, 04:25 PM
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The Point is some think the Christmas Tree is a Pagan Practice that we say it's okay because we are using it to celebrate the Birth of Christ and give gifts...

You are willing to argue that Cremation is a slap in the face of God because it's also pagan and yet give the Christmas tree a pass???
you said yourself it was gross or what have you.

you are comparing apples&Oranges.
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Old 05-03-2007, 04:26 PM
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I want my ashes spread in a big Ol' Bass Pond... or the Ocean.. whichever..

Maybe Half and half....

That way when the trumpet blows... the fish will have a heart attack seeing me come from both places....
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Old 05-03-2007, 04:27 PM
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you said yourself it was gross or what have you.

you are comparing apples&Oranges.

Thad... Once I'm gone it won't matter what happens to this body... whether I donate it to science or am cremated or am buried.... I'll be with the Lord..
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Old 05-03-2007, 04:56 PM
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Thad, after I am gone, if you see my wife carrying a Dunkin Donuts Coffee Thermos. It don't contain a double latte.....
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Old 05-03-2007, 04:58 PM
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when I die, I want to be taken to a taxidermist.... preserved... and sat on the back pew in church.....
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when I die, I want to be taken to a taxidermist.... preserved... and sat on the back pew in church.....
Nice! I would just like my head mounted over the fireplace.
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I'm not sure.I haven't read agains't it in the Bible that I'm aware of ,but there could be a passage about it.
But when have our Spiritual body in the resurrection ,would it matter what has happened to our physical one ?
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when I die, I want to be taken to a taxidermist.... preserved... and sat on the back pew in church.....
You will give some poor evangelists a stroke when they try to scare you down to the altar... but you won't budge. lol.
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You will give some poor evangelists a stroke when they try to scare you down to the altar... but you won't budge. lol.
or when he comes to pray for me and starts to shake me, and I fall to the ground and my head rolls off.. and he can see the stuffing..
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