Posted on 02/18/2023 5:35:53 PM PST by marshmallow
A U.S. academy that trains men for the armed forces and the transportation industry capitulated to the request of an anti-faith activist.
The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) has covered with curtains a painting depicting Jesus Christ overlooking seamen adrift in a lifeboat after an anti-Christian activist demanded that the painting be removed.
The 1944 painting titled “Christ on the Water,” which portrays seamen adrift “presumably after being torpedoed in the Indian Ocean during World War II,” according to the USMMA, is hung in a conference room of the Academy’s main administration building, a spokesperson for the Maritime Administration (MARAD) told Fox News Digital.
Military Religious Freedom Foundation founder Mikey Weinstein, who has essentially made it his life’s mission to remove all traces of Christianity and faith in God from the military, submitted a complaint to USSMA Superintendent Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan, demanding that she “expeditiously remove a massive, sectarian painting illustrating the supremacy of Jesus Christ” from Wiley Hall.
Weinstein said his complaint represents 18 academy midshipmen, faculty, and graduates, who he said “quite correctly believe that the display of the ‘Jesus painting’ is totally violative of the clear time, place and manner requirements of the No Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.”
“It’s as though USMMA is screaming that ‘Jesus Christ is the only approved solution to all of life’s difficulties,'” he added.
In response, the academy decided to “cover the painting with curtains, and … also install a plaque describing its history.”
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Toss the Nazi’s goatsmellin’ ass in the drink.
Moanin’ Mikey Winestain again.
IMO mickey weinstein needs to get shanked in a dark ally somewhere.
“It’s as though USMMA is screaming that ‘Jesus Christ is the only approved solution to all of life’s difficulties,’” he added.
Harvey Weinstein’s cousin should stfu and the USMMA has no fking balls for caving to this punk. Pussies.
Can’t believe a nice Irish Catholic boy like Mikey Weinstein would want to cover up that painting of Jesus.
A demand by all concerned should be made to uncover it.
It is unChristian to hate these people.
I do hate them for what they are doing to my country and my religion.
Would it be wrong to demand removal from the planet for this hacktivist?
It’s place is in the chapel. That looks like a main auditorium. And behind the speaker so you’re forced to continuously see it. A painting of sailors praying would have been non-denominational.
Who wants to serve and die for an atheist, degenerate homosexual country? No one!
Now cover all the rainbows. They offend me.
Appears to be a modern day Saul of Tarsus - a Jew dedicated to the hatred and persecution of Christ and His Church.
I guess he doesn’t realize that Jesus is in charge of his next breath. . .and then of course there is THE JUDGEMENT.
This started with Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Supreme Court knocking prayer out of the public schools in response to the constant lawsuits by Madelyn Murray O’Hair. Look at what happened to his reputation - he’s associated forever with the idiot lies known as the Warren Commission and what happened to her.
One activist can work wonders as long as one dares to tell them to fuck off.
“The Greatest Generation” certainly looked to Jesus.
The Merchant Marine was no exception!
This is exactly what Jefferson’s “separation letter” was meant to prevent.
> It’s place is in the chapel. That looks like a main auditorium. <
Well said. If it is in an auditorium, then I agree. It is a serious mistake to erase all of Christianity from society. But it is also a mistake to force it where it doesn’t properly belong. The Founders were wise in saying that we must not promote any one religion.
Let each person decide that for himself. Go to chapel, or not.
O Christ, Whose voice the waters heard And hushed their raging at Thy word, Who walkedst on the foaming deep, And calm amidst its rage didst sleep; O hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea.
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