Posted on 10/21/2019 11:05:50 PM PDT by NRx
Early this morning, some Catholic men entered St. Maria in Traspontina, near the Vatican, grabbed several of the wooden idols involved in the recent sacrilegious ceremonies and tossed them into the Tiber River.
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How is that different from saracens?
“How is that different from saracens?”
They didn’t go into someone else’s church, slaughter all the worshippers, and burn the place to the ground.
L
I would have been nice for the You Tube video poster to explain the context. What were the idols? Why were they in the church and under who’s authority? What were the specific objections to the idols, were they being worshiped or were they there for other purposes?
Context is important, all I see in the video are ugly wooden statues being pulled from the church and thrown in the river.
Good for them.
JoMa
What’s the Vatican response to this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3787834/posts
and this;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3787853/posts
and this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3787838/posts
Silence.
Exodus 34:13 "You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim."
Hope these answers help:
* The idols were of the fertility goddess
Pachamama.
* They were placed in the church by the Cardinal-Bishop of Santa Maria in Traspontina, Marc Oullet, who is also the President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America as part of a display relating to the Amazonian Synod taking place at the Vatican.
* Pachamama is a goddess worshipped by Amazonian tribes, and therefore they are idols that break the 1st Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me," the most important commandment. They have no place in any Christian church.
Orthodox Catholics have been outraged that they were used in a pagan ritual in the Vatican, placed by the altar in St. Peter's, and then placed in this church along with a poster showing a half-naked woman breastfeeding a piglet. We're ecstatic that the men tossed them into the Tiber.
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