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"Enjoy the passing pleasures of sin..."Hebrews 11:25
I'll bet you didn't know the Bible said THAT! Go ahead, look it up! See! I told ya! It's just another way of saying the motto that "everyone of consenting age in any land knows,"
"What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."
As I sit here re-reading the article from the USA Today Newspaper* whose entire premise is the celebration of sin, I weep for the United States of America.
The slogan is seven years old now, the article tells me,
The key moment came in 2004
when Laura Bush appeared on the
Tonight Show after a Sin City visit.
Jay Leno asked if she'd seen the
Chippendales male strippers. Her
response, worth more than $1
million in advertising;
"Jay, what happens in Vegas,
stays in Vegas."
"There are no rules here," gushes one satisfied customer. "Nowadays, visitors may feel let down if they haven't done what they wouldn't do back home," proclaims the marketing director of a "sin club" where clients pay $400.00 per hour for..."sin."
"The city's mayor, a former defense lawyer for gangsters," soberly laments that, "The real estate market is in the dumps, but he thinks new attractions, such as the downtown Mob Museum-due in fall 2011-will lure visitors."
Ahh, the celebration of sin. By now, I trust that many of you are aware that the Bible verse at the top of the page? from Hebrews 11:25? I took it completely out of context! Did you look it up?
Well, how 'bout ending with a couple of Bible verses that are completely "in" context:
"There is a way which seems right
to a man, but its end is the way of death."
Proverbs 16:25
And,
"The wages of sin is death."
Romans 6:23
Always has been...Always will be. Now there's a slogan for ya'.
*quotations taken from, The USA Today newspaper, Friday, November 12, 2010. p.5D.
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