Posted on 09/01/2015 5:09:29 AM PDT by rktman
The Jesus statue can stay, a panel ruled.
Two of three 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges slapped back at atheists who wanted to remove a Jesus statue from U.S. Forest Service land, telling them in a just-released ruling: Sorry, youre not winning this one.
The panel in effect agreed with U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen of Montana, who had previously ruled the Jesus statue, which stands six feet tall on a northwestern, Montana ski hill and has for 60 or so years is just as secular, if not more so, as religious, Fox News reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
The Trump revolution has put some trepidation in the hearts of the rebellious black robed.
Innocent question, how can you make a graven image? Is this Catholic or Protestant?
It is Biblical. Look up the Ten Commandments.
Its throwing a bone for a later claim of balance.
The court appears to say, “Since there is no know description of the physical attributes of Jesus of Nazareth, The Christ, then what you see is a statue of -simply- a man.
Unless, of course, you might call it “The Zig-Zag Man”?
Won’t we all be surprised when we get to Heaven and find out Jesus looks like [CAUTION: hyperbolic speculation]
Danny DeVito?
The memorial was erected by surviving members of the 10th Mountain div. who had seen similar memorials while fighting during WWII -in Europe. The Memorial is a reflection of that. The memorial to the 10th Mtn. Div. has stood where it does on Big Mtn. for 60 yrs. There is NOT one jot nor tittle of American Law justly published as our first Amendment that requires a godless government.The Crap about a Constitutional prohibition against any government endorsement of religion was a test of logical skill invented by Justice Sandra Day O. to reconcile the FRAUD perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klansman Hugo black since 1947 Everson v. Board of Edu. (that misleading Metaphor) to the Failed and disappointing Lemon test.invented int he 70’s None of which support the First Amendment.
Or, if the muzzies get wherever the virgins are and find out that al-ah ha looks like him. Or worse yet, the virgins look like him.
Actually, no! “He was not comely that we should look upon him!”Isaiah 53:2
That’s a stretch but I’ll give you that description.
In my [personal] opinion, that could likewise be applied to Melchizedekh (cameo appearances throughout the Scriptures...)
It was a good article to read.
The statue is on private land at the Big Mountain Ski Area (Flathead lake area). The statue is six feet tall.
The fingers of Our Lady of the Rockies are six feet long:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_the_Rockies
You aint removing Our Lady from the Continental Divide!
Bump
Saw the Doobie’s last summer at Lake Tahoe. AWESOME!
...NOR shall the free expression thereof be prohibited. Period.
I am sick to death of the atheists and communists who misrepresent the establishment clause while totally ignoring the prohibition clause.
I had a conversation about this yesterday with a 60 year old woman. She had no clue and did not want it explained to her. Yet she was complaining that the people in power are violating our rights.
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