Posted on 02/15/2011 4:47:34 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
BALDWIN BOROUGH, Pa. -- Baldwin borough is now telling a man who put a giant illuminated cross outside his home to take the structure down or face a penalty.
Carl Behr built the 24-foot cross and two other crosses on his property along Robbins Street in Baldwin.
"If you have a problem with that, I think you have a problem with the Lord," said Behr.
Behr said it's an act of faith, but one neighbor claims it's an act of revenge.
Next-door neighbor Lisa Fera said she contacted police and the borough because she felt Behr purposely built the large cross facing her home.
"I'm not looking to be a bad neighbor, I believe in God, I believe in being Christian, but if you are truly Christian, then you would be supporting and respecting your neighborhood," said Fera.
Behr runs a contracting company out of his house, and Fera claims he frequently violated zoning regulations by parking construction vehicles in front of her house.
Channel 4 Action News reporter Keith Jones said Fera claims every time she went to police to complain, Behr built a new cross, each one bigger than the last.
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“Social Justice,” you see...
It would be nice to know what size the lot is. A huge illuminated cross on a 50 or 75 foot lot in a densely populated neighborhood colud be a real nuisnce for the nieghbors and properly prohibited by the local zoning code, as long as it didn’t single out religious symbols.
You don’t need a 24’ Cross to show your a Christian. Your actions should portray that... and this guy needs to rethink his outreach.
“I’m not looking to be a bad neighbor, I believe in God, I believe in being Christian, but if you are truly Christian, then you would be supporting and respecting your neighborhood,” said Fera.
HUH? How about respecting God and glorifying Him
Mark 12:31
You don’t need a 24’ Cross to show your a Christian. Your actions should portray that... and this guy needs to rethink his outreach.
HUH?
Did the guy say he needs it to show he is a Christian?
Who are you to judge his outreach?
If you do not agree with it no one is saying you need to erect a Cross.
If the Cross does not violate any existing ordinances then it should remain.
Why is the guys motive relative?
Right on, RWI. Years ago Francis Shaeffer wrote a book, “The Mark of a Christian” and thoroughly destroyed the thinking behind “Christian” symbols, be they the cross, or whatever.
His point was simply that God has given us only ONE mark that we should wear: the life and character of Christ in us, the Holy Spirit.
And while a majority of Christians promote outward symbols by the dozens, our great lack is that our lives too often contradict the witness of our symbols.....thus invalidating the message.
Case in point: I don’t like bumper stickers, but the best one I ever saw was,
“Jesus - Wonderful Lord!”. It was on the bumper of a car going 85mph on I-75 in Florida when the speed limit was 55 - dangerously passing everyone in sight.
Sometimes God has his own way of saying “that’s tacky”.
http://www.wdtn.com/dpp/on_air/sunrise/giant-jesus-statue-burns-to-the-ground
Matthew 6:5
If Christ is telling him to park in the other person's lawn and build bigger and bigger crosses everytime that person complains... then, by all means, listen to Christ and do it.
Sometimes arsonists do, too. I try not to cackle with glee when arsonists destroy someone’s expression of his Christianity, even if its not my taste.
After all, the have the First Amendment right to do so.
“You don’t need a 24’ Cross to show your a Christian. Your actions should portray that... and this guy needs to rethink his outreach.”
yeah, smug and Christian really don’t go together very well...
Colonel, USAFR
I gotta believe that if the guy had a giant illuminated crescent on his lawn....the cowards would keep their mouths zipped...
Fera is an idiot-maximus for using reverse psychology in her lame attempt to portray how a true Christian should act. =.=
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