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RUDE ROVER
The Christmas dog with no class! He sings and toots Jingle Bells.
INFLATABLE TREE
Who needs the hassle of a real Christmas tree?
FARTING SANTA
Go ahead and pull his finger!

The million dollar question: Will you go to Heaven? Here's a quick test. Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, or used God's name in vain? Jesus said, "Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her in his heart." Have you looked with lust? Will you be guilty on Judgment Day? If you have done those things God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart. The Bible warns that if you are guilty you will end up in Hell. That's not God's will. He sent His Son to suffer and die on the cross for you. Jesus took your punishment upon Himself -"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." Then He rose from the dead and defeated death. Please, repent (turn from sin) today and trust in Jesus, and God will grant you everlasting life. Then read your Bible daily and obey it.

"[...] read your Bible daily" -- you've got to love these guys! Where do I sign up?

I am so going to hell

FYI...

I remember back in '68, Dick Gregory ran a grassroots campaign using simulated dollar bills, labeled as "1 vote for Dick Gregory" with his face instead of Washington.

The Secret Service got upset when some students discovered that the vending machines of the day treated them as real dollars!

Hmm, the Great News Network apparently got their $1M bills from another organization called Living Waters.
The Living Waters web site now says, "Since the Secret Service seized our our Million Dollar Bill tracts in Texas, we have had a huge run on our supply in California."
... and "Our Million Dollar Bill tracts have been selling like hot cakes on a real cold day in Alaska. There is such a demand that we are not even able to take regular back-orders. Our printers are at present working around the clock, and should have a supply to us by Monday 19th June. However, for quantities of 10,000 or more, call [I'm deleting the number; let them do their own advertising]. We can have them sent to you directly from the printer (saving you about a week in delivery)."

So it would seem that being raided by the Treasury Department is very good for business.

By the way, the price is $5.00 for a pack of 100. Not a great price for simple-minded religious tracts, but pretty good for million-dollar bills.

Living Waters has another one, that might appeal more to MoH readers, called "The Wages of Sin." The front side says, "You Have Earned Your Wages." It's about time I got some acknowledgement.

Whose picture is that on the front of the bill?
I can't read the name (if that's what it is) at the bottom.

It looks a lot like Grover Cleveland. But why him?

While we're debating theology...

I realize there's nothing in the Bible that specifically says "Thou shalt not make phony million-dollar bills," but shouldn't passing conterfeit money still be considered a sin?

I mean, lying and cheating and deception in general have traditionally been frowned upon.

Or do these folks subscribe to an end-justifies-the-means philosophy?

Big Gary, they are not trying to use these as currency, so no, it's not lying and cheating. Try to put your bias aside, these guys are getting screwed by the government over something stupid, if this were not a religious group I suspect people would be a bit more supportive of a group with a harmless gag being criminalized.

Oh god.. I *HATE* these things.. with a loathing, burning passion.. They're not the first to use the 'fake money' tract, and likely will not be the last.

There I was, several years ago.. I was utterly broke, homeless and hungry. Things were pretty bleak.

Then, one afternoon, I see a neatly-folded $20 in the bushes outside a small restraunt. I could not beleive my luck! This meant enough food that I could stave off starvation for another week, and possibly treat myself to a bit of Real Food for a change..

Then my heart fell a bit.. Surely someone would miss having dropped a twenty. Even as desperate as I was, it wouldn't be right. I looked around a little, trying to see if anyone was nearby who might have dropped it.. but nobody else was near, so my heart lifted again.. I walked towards the local grocery store with a spring in my step, visions of a decent dinner floating in my head..

Halfway there, I noticed the bill was a bit odd.. too stiff and slick.. I unfolded it, and my heart fell.. The tract was designed so that, when folded into quarters, it exactly resembled a $20, but when unfolded, chided the bearer for their greed and promised a 'treasure greater than money' at the local church.

I collapsed on a bench and nearly cried that someone would come up with something so *cruel*.. that in my hour of greatest need, I'd had that which I needed most dangled before me, then cruelly yanked away..

I've had one of these handed to me before, and was pretty offended by religious nuts disguising their ramblings as money and handing it to strangers. I folded it into a paper airplane later though, so no harm done.

Wow it's getting deep in here. This is why America is such a social/political boiler these days, because clearly anyone who disagrees with my group must be a crazy hatefilled lunatic, after all they don't agree with me so they can't be just normal people with a different opinion, they must be villianized.

How well I remember the part of the New Testament where Jesus says, "My followers shall rely on cheap deception to trick others into believing in me, for the end justifies the means."

If you believe in the words of Jesus, how are they going to be enhanced by pretend money? If you don't believe in Jesus, are you going to be convinced more easily by pretend money?

Maybe someone belives that just picking one of these up is enough to start an unbeliever on the road to salvation, and that's why they think a dirty trick is ok -- means to an end. But I doubt this means to an end is effective.

As for the counterfeiting charge, I think a simple "stop doing this" from the government should be sufficient, since there's no actual bill being copied.

I'm still waiting for somebody to explain why Grover Cleveland (or whoever that is) is on the million-dollar-bill tract.

At least it's not Willaim Henry Harrison ("I died in 30 days!")

The use of fake money is kinda goofy and stupid, but, since they didn't really try to pass it off as real money, it's probably harmless.

On the other hand, the government's fanatical insistence that nobody print anything remotely resembling US currency is quite disturbing. The reason, of course, is that our money is really just play money, backed with nothing and shamelessly manipulated by a federal reserve to serve the political needs of the moment. Naturally, they don't want the distinction between "real" money and "fake" money to be eroded, or else people might realize how worthless US currency really is.

If US currency is so worthless why don't you box all of yours up and ship it to me? I'll gladly take it off your hands.

The Lord sometimes uses foolish things to get HIS WORD out to us foolish human beings. Many are attracted to money. A couple of you were affended because you picked up a tract like this and found it not to be money. And in fact it was more valuable than money. The tract is nothing, but it is the WORD of God on it that is worth more than anything. Most will be offended; that is why you self rightious people crucified Jesus to the cross. But some will take this tract, read the WORD on it and allow the HOLY SPIRIT to speak to their hearts, unlike many of you.

The WORD of God doesn't fill an empty stomach. I'll take fed and godless over Saved and starving every single time.

2 Corinthians 6:4-10, "But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things."

Thank you for proving my point, Guy. Any god that promotes or condones suffering isn't the god for me, and his followers who commit these malicious acts aren't any better.