Keep it up ye leftists and fellow travelers, i.e., muzzies doing the heavy lifting libs won't do. We won't sit peacefully for ever.
Posted on 01/30/2010 5:27:09 AM PST by LikeLight
Zero tolerance for church bells? Ring free zones?
Instead of getting tough on dealers, Arizona prosecutors are going after pealers.
It doesn't ring true, but it is. Here's the video report from Alliance Defense Fund:
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ADF is representing the bellringing Bishop in an appeal hearing of his criminal conviction and, in a separate civil case, is challenging the application of local noise ordinances to church bells.
LikeLight (Stephen Bloom)
I love the sound of church bells. To me it is very comforting. Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a great mystery novel, The Nine Tailors, which is infused with campanology. People have no sense of history now.
Keep it up ye leftists and fellow travelers, i.e., muzzies doing the heavy lifting libs won't do. We won't sit peacefully for ever.
My old Priest used to tell the joke: "Q: What's the difference between a Liturgist and a Terrorist? A: You can negotiate with a Terrorist!"
That was back in the good ol' days when you could joke about Liturgism Terrorism...
Yup, except for Muslims. They seem to have no problem with call to prayer 5 times a day or foot baths in airport or special prayer rooms in schools or veils on the driver license or Mosque variances and on and on and on
Libs should remember,
Nature Abhors a vacuum.
Islam is waiting...
Live with Christians now,
Or live with Muslims later.
It is up to you...
A century from now, these lawyer's great-grandchildren are going to have a knife at their throat, and they will wonder where it all went wrong. They will stare into the void without even the comfort of a decent martyrdom to comfort them.
Sorry to get so upset. The more I think about it, the more it makes me mad that our great inheritance of Western Civilization, preserved and defended by countless heroes in ages past, is going to be frittered away because some morons can’t stand to hear church bells on a Sunday morning...
I remember a lot of folks crowing on FR about how pleased they were when Hamtramck Michigan stopped the Muslim’s call to prayer over the loudspeakers.
I thought that was a mistake and I think this decision is a mistake. Both are at worst a minor inconvenience for the neighbors.
Oh, how I miss hearing the Angelus three times daily, calling us to prayer!
Finally, last year one of the parishioners had had enough and rebuilt the framework for the bell. Last Trinity Sunday, the bell rang again for the first time in years... and it rang during the mass in place of the sanctus bells.
Needless to say, it was quite a moment for the congregation as well as the whole town.
I am confident that we will never have the problem of folks complaining about church bells here...
I think if the bells were there first, people who built houses and moved in later have no complaint.
On the other hand, I don’t think a church should have an unlimited right to ring bells whenever they want, so I don’t mind reasonable restrictions.
Not sure whether this case was “reasoanble” or not though. Seems like overreaching.
I wouldn’t want a Mosque to get permission to broadcast prayers and use some ruling on bells to justify it.
Great comments and discussion. I had to step away, great to come back and find all this excellent discourse.
"the study of bells"
A totally new word for me.
Powerful.
It's mind numbing the way we, as a culture, seem to be intent on destroying the very things that have made us strong. Cultural suicide.
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