This is "Offend your Readers" week here at City Business. …and so without further ado, I present to you:

CHRISTIAN NYMPHOS: A blog for Christian Wives who really like having sex with their husbands.

Here is how they describe themselves.

We are women with excessive sexual desire for our husbands! There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. In fact, God wants us to be madly in love with our husbands. He wants us to keep that fire burning in our marriage beds! We have the Song of Solomon as a perfect example of a Christ honored union where the two people are obviously intoxicated with each other.

As far as the second definition goes, we each do have some good friends who have called us abnormal because of how happy we are in our marriage beds. Their attitude is that a wife should just put up with sex once a month or so to keep the husband happy. So for them to hear us praising our husbands and talking about how much we enjoy being with him, they do think we are “against the norm” so to speak.

Good Times!

(H/T The Vig)

Here is a great Survey from Faith in Public Life 

The poll released Thursday, commissioned by Faith in Public Life and Mercer University, found that 57% of respondents said torture can be often or sometimes justified to gain important information from suspected terrorists. Thirty-eight percent said it was never or rarely justified.

But when asked if they agree that "the U.S. government should not use methods against our enemies that we would not want used on American soldiers," the percentage who said torture was rarely or never justified rose to 52%.

"Presenting people with this argument and identifying with the golden rule really does engage a different part of people's psyche and a part of their heart, their soul, and really does shift their views on torture," said Robert Jones, president of Public Religion Research, which was commissioned to conduct the poll.

A lot of this also comes down to "Turning the Other Cheek."  Another Christ-like principle many Christians struggle with.

Henri sends this in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksGYlxV4v6A&NR=1

Lol.

Chris sends in this link to a Christian whose house is in foreclosure. And the home-owner does not know what to do.

The Homeowner asks, "So what do we do, as Christians?  Are we getting what we deserve?  Are the greedy builders partly to blame?  The banks who were unwilling to negotiate their rates back down or do short sales?  

What I know is that I have to start looking for a rental home, moving my family and belongings, and repairing my credit.  And we are very stressed."

This guy is absolutely doing the right thing by walking away from his home. But ultimately, it’s his fault. It’s not the banks fault. It’s not the builders fault. He bought a home he couldn’t afford, and now he’s paying the price. 

Next time, don’t buy more house than you can afford.  I’m not sure that’s in the Bible, but it should be. 

Ever since I have been blogging on City Business I have always spoken out against charismatic "leaders" who use Christ as a platform to gain attention to themselves.  I just can't get past the hypocrisy of preaching Jesus, who represents humility and servanthood, while intentionally trying to become rich and   famous from the pulpit.  Well this week I have come across a few articles about "pastors" who have been caught in some sticky situations.  Todd Bentley has stepped down after cheating on his wife and is now separated from her, an Australian pastor associated with Hillsong has been caught faking cancer, and some rough rider California pastor has been arrested on attempted murder.  Add these incidences to the very public divorces of Juanita Bynum and Paula White along with the Senator Grassley investigation, and I begin to wonder what God is up to these days?  Now I have nothing against being rich or being a celebrity, but I wish these people would stop working under the guise of ministry to do so.  If a person wants to live a large and public life, then by all means pursue that life, but please go do it in the real world and stop using a church as cover.  It's shameful.  Thus, I for one am glad to see God lifting the sheets on what's really going on.

Here's a book excerpt "Biblical Bling" from Forbes.com. For those of you who want the cliff notes, it is basically about the history of fund-raising in mainstream American churches, pioneered by Jerry Falwell back in the 1970s.  It examines the book "Falwell Inc.: Inside a Religious, Political, Educational and Business Empire." Some highlights:

"Hundreds of millions of dollars poured into the ministries of Bible Belt televangelists in the 1970s-80s. But these fortunes would never have materialized without a secular weapon from the North–a Massachusetts marketing outfit begun by a group of twenty-something Harvard business school grads called Epsilon Data Management. Falwell began using the company in 1976; he was the first televangelist to sign up. When his contributions exploded, other preachers like Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, Oral Roberts and Rex Humbard contracted with Epsilon and made a pile, too.

One of the boldest campaigns Epsilon conducted for Falwell was the attempt to raise $5 million by "Miracle Day"–September 24, 1978…Epsilon's direct mailings went into overdrive, offering a new premium: 'Faith Deeds.' These were personalized certificates resembling land deeds sent to donors who contributed $100 or more to 'purchase' a piece of the mountain. Falwell could not print them fast enough. By Sept. 24 the campaign had produced not $5 million, but $7 million. Falwell was astounded–it was more money than he had raised from contributors during the entire previous year.

Besides Epsilon, Falwell had the formidable talent of Jerry Huntsinger. A former minister who [took] advertising concepts from the for-profit world and [applied] them to nonprofit religious ventures. He considered every fund-raising letter a short story…a problem that seems insurmountable, a sympathetic character that is a victim of the problem, complications and obstacles, [and] a resolution. He encouraged Falwell to focus on wedge issues in his mailings, excoriating the feminist movement and attacking homosexual rights, often equating both with the dangers of communism. As one letter stated: 'Dear Friend: Homosexuals are on the march in this country. Homosexuals do not reproduce, they recruit, and many of them are after my children and your children….This is one major reason why we must keep "The Old Time Gospel Hour" alive…So don't delay. Let me hear from you immediately. I will be anxiously awaiting your reply."

No matter what you think of this man, it's pretty amazing how he was able to manipulate so many people into giving their money. To me its ironic that the same people who preach so strongly against worldly ties, are the first in line to partake of its influences when it comes to money.  With the amount of idiots out there willing to write checks in the name of stopping gays and abortion we here at CBC have a very high mountain to climb. Maybe it's time for us to start fund-raising too? I wonder what our marketing campaign should be?

I don't really have an opinion on tattoos. I don't have a tatoo, because it isn't really how I roll. But I figure if someone does want one, more power to them. Sometimes they really do look cool.

In that vein, Chris sends in this Classic Christian Tattoo. (FYI, Not 100% Safe for Work) 

Hahha…. Oh, I so want to know the backstory behind (pun intended) that tattoo.