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Atheists Attack “Big Mountain Jesus” Memorial to Fallen American WWII Soldiers
National Catholic Register ^ | 7/13/15 | Joseph Pronechen

Posted on 07/13/2015 1:11:15 PM PDT by markomalley

In Whitefish, Montana, the spectacular view from anywhere on Big Mountain up to its summit over 6,800 feet overlooks placid Flathead Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, and the Valley below, while its slopes have attracted skiers for decades.

Near Glacier National Park, this hardly seems a place where a battle goes on over a statue called “Big Mountain Jesus.”

The statue has stood on a tiny 25-foot-by-25-foot piece of leased land high up on the mountain for over 60 years as a memorial honoring soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division who lost their lives fighting in the Alps of Italy.

But it has somehow “offended” a group of atheists who want it removed. The tiny parcel is leased by private citizens, like parts of the ski area itself by the resort, from the U.S. Forest Service. One of the group’s members no longer feels able to ski there because the statue is somewhere on the mountain.

The atheists threatened to sue the Forest Service because it was renewing the permit for the monument every ten years, without ever an incident. At first the Forest Service buckled and denied the permit when time came to renew.

But people didn’t take it sitting down. Thousands of letters and petitions poured in to leave the Big Mountain Jesus statue where it was.

(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: liberalagenda; montana; ww2

1 posted on 07/13/2015 1:11:15 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
In Whitefish, Montana, the spectacular view from anywhere on Big Mountain up to its summit over 6,800 feet overlooks placid Flathead Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, and the Valley below, while its slopes have attracted skiers for decades. Near Glacier National Park, this hardly seems a place where a battle goes on over a statue called “Big Mountain Jesus.”

The statue has stood on a tiny 25-foot-by-25-foot piece of leased land high up on the mountain for over 60 years as a memorial honoring soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division who lost their lives fighting in the Alps of Italy. But it has somehow “offended” a group of atheists who want it removed. The tiny parcel is leased by private citizens, like parts of the ski area itself by the resort, from the U.S. Forest Service. One of the group’s members no longer feels able to ski there because the statue is somewhere on the mountain.


2 posted on 07/13/2015 1:17:50 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: markomalley
We are in an ideological war. From a Marxist viewpoint, an atheistic mind is already three-fourths conquered.

The Naked Communist, Chapter 12.
Well beyond the three-fourths mark now.
3 posted on 07/13/2015 1:22:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: markomalley

uckfay atheists. (My pig Latin for the year)


4 posted on 07/13/2015 1:26:30 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: markomalley

I thought that the SC already addressed a similar issue and therefore it is “law of the land” (sarc)


5 posted on 07/13/2015 1:31:16 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: markomalley

“One of the group’s members no longer feels able to ski there because the statue is somewhere on the mountain.”

His problem isn’t a statue of Jesus. His problem is a mental disorder that needs to be diagnosed. Paranoia or some phobia or some other disorder. Maybe Liberalism... that’s a serious and widespread disorder.


6 posted on 07/13/2015 1:32:47 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: markomalley

Someone needs to attack the atheists. With a tomahawk.


7 posted on 07/13/2015 1:40:26 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: markomalley

Godless atheists will be eternally crying forever just to have another glance at a Jesus statue of any kind. Pity the fools.


8 posted on 07/13/2015 1:44:13 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: markomalley

Why don’t those militant atheists immigrate to an officially atheist state and stop offending the rest of us? They should feel right at home in North Korea.


9 posted on 07/13/2015 1:52:29 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: markomalley

Vile people.


10 posted on 07/13/2015 1:54:42 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Olog-hai

Is there a difference between these people tearing down religious works and ISIS doing the same thing? I’m having a hard time seeing it, if there is.


11 posted on 07/13/2015 2:02:05 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: navyguy
Exactly. If there is no God why is the statue of a non-existent entity offensive?
12 posted on 07/13/2015 2:07:59 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Frankly, there isn’t, that I can see. Too similar, apart from the level of violence used to achieve the goals thereof.


13 posted on 07/13/2015 2:11:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The only fitting replacement would be a pyramid made up of the severed heads of any atheists supporting its removal. Thanks markomalley.

14 posted on 07/13/2015 2:42:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: navyguy

How much of a loser do you have to be to obsess over statues on a mountain? To get yer knickers all twisted up because that thing is up there and you can’t stop yourself from looking at it? And thinking about it, laying in the bed in your mom’s basement. The Constitution promised us we’d all be free from religion.

Or something.


15 posted on 07/13/2015 4:16:41 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (I SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE. As long as both chicks are HAWT !!!)
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To: markomalley

I hate militant atheists. I know a number of atheists but none of them are militants.


16 posted on 07/13/2015 5:06:24 PM PDT by BBell
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To: tflabo

We have a Vietnam Memorial attached to our American Legion in La Mesa, Ca. Several years ago an athiest was covering the cross with a flag, the Commanders wife kicked over his ladder and turned the hose him.

viet-nam-memorial

17 posted on 07/13/2015 7:44:22 PM PDT by Foolsgold (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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