Posted on 06/19/2016 4:24:02 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
As Orlando continues to reel a week after the worst mass shooting in US history consumed the city in tragedy, one Chicago man is traveling thousands of miles to deliver comfort.
Greg Zanis, 65, drove 1,200 miles from his home to the Orlando Regional Medical Center to deliver 49 wooden crosses he made by hand.
Each of the three-foot-tall white crosses bears the name of the 49 victims who were murdered at the gay nightclub Pulse during Latin night on June 12.
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Drink.
Drink?
It’s what people do when someone mentions abortion on a thread about puppies (for example).
Wouldn’t it be really funny if salvation began again with the gays? Putting so many people to shame who inveighed that it was for those who deserved it?
BECAUSE HOW DARE WE CARE ABOUT THE PUPPIES?!?
Very good, it lurks out there on the web somewhere.
Now make it live on the street.
Re: “And the genuine and open-hearted shock and mourning by Christians and services by churches for those killed and wounded in the Orlando attack marks as lies the usual propaganda by the Left that Christians hate gays.”
Yes. You are correct. I disdain the media turning this into a “gay” narrative. This is about 49 Americans murdered, not “gay” Americans, or “Afro- Americans”, not “German” Americans - just Americans. I don’t agree with their sin choices, but I don’t wish them dead or murdered. That’s Westboro Baptist idiocy. We are all SINNERS. It is by God’s grace alone that any of us can be forgiven.
I don’t know this man that made the crosses, by hand, nor do I know his motives - God alone knows. But, those crosses are a symbol of Christ’s love who died for sinners - while we were yet sinners. I say, “God bless him” for demonstrating love for hurting and mourning families. God will judge in good time. The calling of Christians is to preach the truth of the Gospel, in season and out, with grace, love, and mercy, remembering that we are all sinners saved by grace.
I’m sure there were people in the Twin Towers or on those planes that slammed into the towers on 9/11 who were not believers, who were possibly homosexual - it doesn’t matter - they were Americans outrageously murdered. We can and should mourn with those remaining behind. That doesn’t mean we condone anyone’s sin - we simply weep with those who weep and mourn with those who mourn with the love of Christ.
Re: “Are we going to continue to engage in one-upmanship?”
What the heck is your problem? She expressed an opinion. You expressed yours. Let it go without tying spiritual zingers to it.
At their best, the Christian view of free will and of the world and the people in it as created by God tend to foster a sense of humility and acceptance of human imperfection and sinfulness. We are called on to hate sin but love sinners — in whose ranks we too are included.
Abortion is a great evil, but injecting into consideration of another evil can foster moral confusion. Condemning some Christians as false compounds the fault with an eagerness to cast stones that is hard to reconcile with the teachings of Christ.
Amen
He’s nothing more than a publicity hound who cashes in on the tragedy of others.
First I heard of this - how has he cashed in so far? Any big numbers of cash influx?
“First I heard of this - how has he cashed in so far? Any big numbers of cash influx?”
his reward is the publicity and chaos he creates when he does this. Read the book “Columbine” to see the grief he caused in Colorado.
Thanks
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