Posted on 02/08/2023 6:01:55 PM PST by marshmallow
CNA Newsroom, Feb 2, 2023 / 13:45 pm On Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple and the Virgin of Candlemas, a vandal desecrated an image of Jesus in a Catholic church in Jerusalem.
The Associated Press reported that the attack occurred at the Church of the Flagellation located on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, the route that Christ walked to Mount Calvary, where he was crucified.
The suspect in the attack is an American tourist who was detained by Israeli police officers after throwing the image of Christ to the ground. The authorities did not immediately release the man’s name.
As he was arrested, the man shouted, “You can’t have idols in Jerusalem, this is the Holy City!” According to police, he is undergoing psychological evaluation.
Father José de Jesús Aguilar, deputy director of radio and television for the Archdiocese of Mexico, posted a video showing the man’s arrest and deploring what happened.
“Unfortunately today, Brother Francisco Benito, a great friend of the custodians in Jerusalem, sent me an image in which a fanatic threw down a sculpture of Christ in one of the chapels on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem,” the priest explained.
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Apparently the Ugly American has not yet merged with the Universe.
Why can’t these nutballs ever visit a mosque?
Shoot him. We don’t want him back.
For the briefest moment, I wondered how the Mentally Ill have the income to travel to the Holy City. Then, I immediately answered myself; Hollywood, Academia, the MSM, Big Tech employees, Democrats, and their staffers, Deep State employees etc...
Probably an American antifa type
In this case because there are no graven images displayed. If you have never had the misfortune to encounter one of the literalist fundamentalist fanatics you are lucky.In the Baptist church my parents attended there was one. He was physically removed from the congregation twice for disrupting services by yelling and ranting during a service. After the second time he was told he would not be let back in the church ever. He tried to get in several times and was stopped at the door and forced back to his car by the deacons.
Didn’t release his name.
Was it Mohammed something?
This “tourist “ is not an American.
Definitely Muslim.
Lunatic
Pinochet-style helicopter rides.
There are no idols in mosques.
You can hear him say “Exodus chapter 20” and “you’re not allowed to have images”.
He apparently thinks that he is enforcing verse 4:
“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.”
>> Definitely Muslim. <<
Yep, check out a similar quote from this website. No one else would say that kind of stuff. It's DEFINITELY Muslim:
"Catholics do practice a form of idolatry, in violation of God’s command"
Oh wait! That quote is actually from a PROTESTANT website.
My bad.
“There are no idols in mosques.”
There are any in Catholic churches either.
And ISIS was pretty darn sure the Kaaba stone was an idol -
https://www.facebook.com/261240580751406/photos/isis-we-will-ruin-the-kaaba-after-capturing-saudi-arabiaisisisilwhatever-are-thr/262692303939567/?paipv=0&eav=AfZzODPn22LqlbUBtneNYbEPD2ZlDuitVbcEJsSqm3cHkbPmg3lZMyuajj5qpeG56pM&_rdr
So if Muslims say there is an idol in a Muslim Mosque, you kind of have to go with that don’t you?
I’m just saying. . .
More likely to be a weirdo Jewish person or a weirdo fundamentalist Nazarene.
We are like a magnet for weirdos of all religions.
Based on images, my personal opinion is that the Black stone of the kaaba is the black stone ie meteorite that was worshipped as the god Elagabalus in Emesa (present day Homs).
I’ve heard that it’s not uncommon that there are visitors to Jerusalem who are so. overwhelmed that they flip out, convinced they are the messiah.
WHAT’S HIS NAME??
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