Posted on 08/20/2009 7:28:12 AM PDT by Pope Pius XII
Vandals have cut off and stolen the head of the infant Jesus from a marble statue at a parish in Wauwatosa. Local police said that such vandalism is typical in the Milwaukee suburb of 45,000, and the parish estimates that repairs will cost $12,000.
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‘Tosa used to be such a nice, safe place to live. The godless, socialist cancer is spreading.
This is an attack on ALL Christians.
Naw, it is the destruction of a statue. There is nothing holy about a graven image. And the destruction of a graven image is not an attack on Christians.
Now.. that guy who went into the church in India and shot up a bunch of Christians... THAT is an attack on Christians.
They’re called sacramentals. A bible is a sacramental is it not? And you call that holy? Do you not?
Someone is SO going to hell for this!
You’re pretty literal minded aren’t you.
They say that those who mess around with the Truth are worse than murderers, adulterers and rapists. And their place in hell will be lower. Much lower.
“Vandals”. That means it won’ be treated as a Hate Crime.
Vandals cut off baby Jesus’s head?
Now there’s a short cut to the everlasting torment in Hell if I ever heard one.
Would seem to be an attack on Christianity itself. Unless perp was ignorant as to Who statue represented. Which is quite possible with a population “educated” in government schools.
a statue of the Virgin Mary in a church courtyard in Pittsburgh recently received similar treatment. Sounds like part of a sick trend or movement to me.
1) Muslims,
2) Aetheists,
3) Kids
If you damage Muslim property, there would be a howl across the world.
When the Church is loved by the world, then is the time to be concerned.
We have had our parish hall vandalized this year, the kids were caught and they’ve had to pay restitution. The neighboring Catholic Church was broken into and they stole lots of stuff!
Just this weekend there was a report that someone had broken a window and when the policeman saw that it was a church he decided to take a cruise by some other churches and caught a 28 yr old man throwing rocks at the windows of the latter Catholic church.
That’s just recent, last year they devastated the Methodist church and a few years before another church basically had to be rebuilt inside.
Lock em up and throw away the key.
The Bible is God's holy, inspired Word. Of course it is holy. And in that very Bible, graven images are condemned as profane. Somehow, I don't think God is upset that one of those graven images was destroyed.
Stop calling the statues graven images. And stop misrepresenting the faith.
Guy in your 40s,
Maybe it is time to grow up? When someone walks on or burns an American flag, it’s just a piece of cloth, right? Or maybe it represents everything that is great about America? Including those who died so we can be free.
A marble statue made in the image and likeness of the Christ child is a help to contemplation, it teaches the Gospel in a 3D manner, and it is also suitable for children who can’t read yet. Bringing up the childish “graven image” argument shows that you do not understand what is meant by the concept. Any time you see the phrase “graven image” in the Old Testament, just substitute the phrase “manmade religion”. Then fast-forward to today, and look around. Any manmade christian sect is a “graven image”, especially the ones which are iconoclast.
When the Incarnation occurred, that is, when God became man, His human form became something our senses could grasp. We know from tradition what Jesus and Mary looked like, and art has done its best down through the centuries to represent their features for the express purpose of drawing hearts and minds towards God.
But something tells me you don’t really believe in the graven image injunction at all, you’re just stirring the pot.
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