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Do Gooders
By GARY TOOLE
The most hypocritical advertisement on television is the one about Phillip Morris, one of the largest cigarette manufacturers and beer producers in the world. They own the Miller Brewing Company. Miller the killer!

But the ad showed them doing so much good, bottling water for flood victims, and while that is good, it's nothing but a psychological distraction from all the bad publicity the cigarette companies were and still are getting.

It's nothing but a hypocritical front, trying to project a do-gooder image while producing, promoting and distributing poison and I'm not just talking about cigarettes. I'm talking about beer too. And oh, I know they didn't put a gun to folks' heads and make them smoke and drink. You would think that by all these lawsuits concerning cigarettes and nicotine, that they did. All that is true, but I still don't buy their dogood image. It's nothing but a snow job. They are beer and cigarette producers: producers of two deadly poisons. That's what they are -- not bottled water saints as the ad tried to project.

Doing good is very important and who's more able financially to do good than the big companies. Christians should do good, but that alone doesn't and will not get you in Heaven. But as I like to say, "A Christian won't get there if they don't do good!" The way to Heaven is through Jesus Christ.

Shunning, resisting and denouncing sin and even the very appearance of evil and sharing the message of Jesus, the way, the truth, and the life to a lost and dying addicted world is what's going to Heaven and doing good is really all about.

It's not about bottled water, but rather living water. Can you say amen?
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