Posted on 01/19/2017 10:07:59 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- “What message does this ornament send to those who drive on Lancaster Avenue?” asked Roberta Winters, president of the Radnor League of Woman Voters. The world has changed since the days when public school students would start the day with a prayer, she said. She wondered if the crosses would send a “welcoming” message to motorists as they pass through Radnor.
“Symbols can bring both positive and negative connotations to individuals and groups,” said Winters. “Are there less ostentatious ways to reflect a Catholic institution?” Winters also wondered what precedent this would set in the township if approved.
Rick Leonardi, another resident, questioned whether taxpayers, through PennDOT, should be funding a bridge with religious symbols that are “a little ostentatious if not confrontational.”
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Crosses belong in graveyards.
Larry McDonald had a perfect nickname for this group:
The League of Woman VIPERS!
Crosses are a sign of Jesus Christ Lord and Savior. It is the required symbol that Christians use to identify our faith in JC.
When the Christians were being persecuted in the old Roman times, they used the symbol of a fish because the Greek language for Jesus Christ Lord and Savior was ICHTUS, which also was a word for a fish. [I am writing this basically from memory and if anything I wrote is incorrect, please feel free to comment and correct me.]
Perhaps the anti-Christian crowd would like for Christians to go underground and use the fish symbol again? But we are not going gently into the night and will stand proud on our faith.
The crosses will be on private property, and paid for by the university.
Shaddup, haters.
“Symbols can bring both positive and negative connotations to individuals and groups,”
“Are there less ostentatious ways to reflect a Catholic institution?”
“...should be funding a bridge with religious symbols that are “a little ostentatious if not confrontational.”
Negative connotations?
Ostentatious?
Confrontational?
I HOPE that my strong faith in Jesus Christ labels me as such.
Yes, it may be on private property. But others not on that property will be forced to look at it as well, and be reminded that there is a God, and that their deeds both good and bad are not overlooked. Can you imagine anything more horrible?
Luke 2:34And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall, and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be contradicted;
December, 2011
The Baptist Church in the Great Valley recently celebrated its 300th anniversary and for the past 30 years, Winters has served as its Sunday School Superintendant and unofficial event coordinator extraordinaire.
http://patch.com/pennsylvania/radnor/local-woman-starts-small-to-make-a-big-difference
The CROSS is the source of life.
Eternal life.
My Alma mater and I think they’re beautiful, in keeping with the dozens of crosses in walls, buildings all over the campus.
I guess I meant crosses used as markers for deaths of individuals.
Wouldn’t a crucifix be more appropriate than a cross for a catholic institution?
My Alma Mater also. The crosses on the steeples on St. Thomas’ chapel are even more visible. Been there without complaint for 100 years. Guess you can only put crosses on the road sides where Hispanics crashed now.
Another Jesuit University
I don’t recall ever seeing a crucifix on a Catholic church steeple or roof. Just crosses.
Just exactly how is a cross “ostentatious?”
I don’t recall if I’ve ever seen one on the steeple but certainly on the front of the building.
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