"The hanging was the first case of vandalism at the church since LaForce became pastor less than a year ago."
If it's a Christian emblem, it's vandalism. If it's any other religion it's a hate crime.
Blasphemy ping.
Signs of the times ping...
Diabolical.
Diabolical.
In a way this is chickens coming home to roost so to speak. The Presbyterians did so much to encourage iconoclasm in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Probably goofy teens.
dreadful headline, dreadful story; the gore-and-bloodlust factor seems to be at play in the journalism. Probably it'll win a pulitzer because it has all the elements of a ratings-maker.
yawn.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art Thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our death, Amen.
Hail, Holy Queen!
The idiot who did this probably just picked the first church he came across not knowing if it was Catholic, Presbyterian or Methodist. Sooner or later this retard will trespass on the wrong lawn in his quest for statues to steal, and he'll be praying to Mary for healing.
The modern world despises virginity and it despises the notion of self-sacrificing motherhood.
Our Lady, spotless virgin and perfect mother, is a standing reproach to the age.
The filth who did this is biting at her son's heel, but He will place His foot on the blasphemer's neck in due time.
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The people who did this dont care about denominations. They are haters. They just wanted to insult Christiantiy. To see it as anything else is mind masturbation.
Whoever did it got the effect they wanted, a rise out of the Christian community-over a plastic Virgin Mary.
Look at the bickering which has degenerated into serious mud slinging on this thread.
What is it? a PLASTIC virgin Mary. Does it have any saving power? No more than a molten or graven image.
Jdg 17:3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Any Catholic should by now have the veneration of Mary firmly implanted in their hearts and not have to greve over plastic statues. the plastic has no life. No soul.
In a few years it will crack and then be thrown in the garbage. Quite an end for a plastic saint.
You need to separate the truly divine things from temporal things as plastic.
A few years ago Serrano made an atrocious piece of dreck called the "Pi$$ Christ". Many people in the protestant church where I went became angry about it. Even I waxed indignant, for about ten seconds, then I realized this is exactly what the "artist" wanted to do. I turned my indignation off and separated the religious from the irrelivant.
Look, I said to them. "All this is a piece of cast brass submerged in urine. That is all it is. Is your faith so shallow that you worry over a piece of shaped brass? Christ lives in YOU, not in the brass." They then began to cool down.
And all of us need to cool down also, remember, it is only shaped plastic.
Now being stolen private property is another matter...
The only statues worth worrying over are those such as Michaelangelo's Pieta. When it was smashed with a sledgehammer several years ago the whole world was aghast!Not because it is "religious" It also is solid stone and has no saving power or soul. But it is a true masterpiece of beautiful art.
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