Posted on 12/02/2020 9:19:55 PM PST by xomething
SUNRISE, Fla. – Surveillance video from early Sunday at the Saint Bernard Catholic Church in Sunrise shows a shirtless man appearing to hurl a rock at a statue of Jesus perched outside.
Minutes later, video then shows the same man clutching a can of accelerant, pouring it on the garden below, and lighting it on fire.
Father Jorge Rodriguez de la Viuda said not only were the hands broken from the Jesus statue, but in another part of the church, a statue of the Virgin Mary was beheaded. The statue of St. Francis was missing a head as well.
Some of the broken sculpture pieces were then shoved inside a storm drain.
The church estimates a loss of about $6,000.
“What he did is very sad, and I know it doesn’t represent who he is,” Father Rodriguez de la Viuda said. “I’d love to tell him that we love him and we’re praying for him.”
The Sunrise Police Department is investigating.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.
Universal mask mandates trumps facial recognition technology.
Unintended (?) consequences.
“I know it doesn’t represent who he is”
another dipsh1t priest
When it serves the Deep State, they’ll tell us we aren’t allowed to wear masks...for our own safety of course.
Yup.
Yes, it does. Don't be so naive, for crying out loud.
“What he did is very sad, and I know it doesn’t represent who he is,”
He’s telling you who he is. Wake up.
““What he did is very sad, and I know it doesn’t represent who he is,” Father Rodriguez de la Viuda said.”
I think Father Rodriguez de la Viuda is not only dangerously naive but he is also extremely irresponsible. Being an apologist is not helping the perpetrator or the church.
Beheadings STRONGLY suggest it was an Islamist. Not conclusive, but, you know...
“sacred sculptures”
Is there really such a thing?
Life is scared, stone not so much.
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