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Gold cross is removed from Wiliam and Mary chapel altar
Daily Press, Hampton Roads, VA ^ | October 28, 2006 | SETH FREEDLAND

Posted on 10/28/2006 9:45:00 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul

WILLIAMSBURG -- College of William and Mary officials removed a 2-foot-high gold cross from the altar of the Sir Christopher Wren Building chapel this week, in an effort to modify the historic chapel into a nondenominational space.

The cross is now kept in a nearby storage closet, near communion wine bottles and other religious articles.

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To: bmwcyle

Precisely, teotwaki.

And the water goes up one degree. Did the little froggy notice?

jm


41 posted on 10/28/2006 11:05:08 AM PDT by JockoManning (Listen Online http://www.klove.com)
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To: Mo1

Another educational institution entrenched with liberals that believe they know better than those that established the college in 1693.

Welcoming to all? Academically speaking..only if one has high SAT scores or money.


42 posted on 10/28/2006 11:05:45 AM PDT by Goldie Lurks (professional moonbat catcher)
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To: SkyPilot

Wiccan's aren't Satanist. They are pagans.


43 posted on 10/28/2006 11:06:33 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (All Truth is God's Truth...regardless of the source.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

The United Stalinists of America at it again.
Certainly this move delights the hideous soul of Rev. Barry Lynn. Reverend my hiney....
SOLUTION: Raise up our Christian kids to be true leaders and allocate these vermin Christ hater heretics into the gutter of sewage where they belong.


44 posted on 10/28/2006 11:10:41 AM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: Doctor Raoul

That news makes me unblieveably sad and heart-broken.


45 posted on 10/28/2006 11:16:00 AM PDT by WVNan
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To: Doctor Raoul

On the other hand.

Wouldn't it make some of you who are Christians a tad uncomfortable to have some of the more, how might I say, "rollicking" Freeper discussions in a holy place in front of a cross?

Instead of looking at it as an affront to the place, perhaps it should be seen as a courtesy to the spirit of the chapel.

A spirit not unique to the building, but to those who gather within it for prayer, with the cross before them. Because the building is just a building, and the cross is just metal. It is the purpose of those people gathered together that makes it a house of worship, the cross a symbol of that purpose in their gathering together.

If they are there for another purpose, then the purpose of the cross before them is done no justice.


46 posted on 10/28/2006 11:17:27 AM PDT by Popocatapetl
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To: Artemis Webb
Wiccan's aren't Satanist. They are pagans.

You are mistaken. Paganism, Wiccanism, Druidism, New Ageism, etc, are all false religions that do not worship the one true God and are from the Evil One.

They are all nothing but the same stench wrapped up in different names.

Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Rev 22:15

47 posted on 10/28/2006 11:23:25 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Doctor Raoul
""Pick your steps over these endless ruins: the enemy have sacked everything in the sanctuary. They roared where your Assemblies used to take place, they stuck their enemy emblems over the entrance, emblems we had never seen before." (Ps.74:1-23).

""Axes deep in the wood, hacking at the panels, they battered them down with mallet and hatchet; then, God, setting fire to your sanctuary, they profanely razed the house of your name to the ground. Determined to destroy us once and for all, they burned down every shrine of God in the country." (Ps.74:1-23). "Deprived of signs, with no prophets left, who can say how long this will last? How much longer, God, is the oppressor to blaspheme? Is the enemy to insult your name forever? Why hold back your hand, why keep your right hand hidden? "

"Remember the enemy's blasphemy, how frenzied people dare to insult your name. Respect the covenant! We can bear no more -- every cave in the country is the scene of violence! Rise God, say something on your behalf, do not forget the madman's day-long blaspheming..."
(Ps.74:1-23).

48 posted on 10/28/2006 11:26:23 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Doctor Raoul
Rev 3:14-16 And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
Rev 3:17-20 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked:
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

The church at Laodecia - the last of the church ages. So steeped in their own self-righteous traditions and so ashamed of their Savior that He's on the outside looking in!

shabbot shalom

49 posted on 10/28/2006 11:33:31 AM PDT by patriot_wes (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - may they prosper who love thee...Ps 122:6)
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To: patriot_wes
""Once the master of the house has got up and locked the door, you may find yourself knocking on the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us' but he will answer, 'I do not know where you come from'." (Lk.13:25).
50 posted on 10/28/2006 11:36:30 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

I get more and more concerned about even religious institutions becoming more politically correct and more "diverse." Some schools are losing the nature of what they once were to become nondemoninational in order to attract more enrollees. That is what may come with receiving public monies and such. I would rather private religious institutions remain private.


51 posted on 10/28/2006 11:39:00 AM PDT by moog
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To: Popocatapetl

That was unbelievably brilliant, thanks.


52 posted on 10/28/2006 1:42:08 PM PDT by sgtyork (Prove to us that you can enforce the borders first.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

W&M is under attack lately. Didn't the NCAA force them to remove the two feathers from their logo because it's offensive to Indians?


53 posted on 10/28/2006 5:47:56 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (Stop the ACLU - Support the Public Expression of Religion Act 2005 - Call your congressmen.)
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To: Popocatapetl

Interesting signup date you have. 06/06/06


54 posted on 10/28/2006 5:53:21 PM PDT by AmishDude (Mwahahahahahahahaha -- official evil laugh of the North American Union)
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To: Doctor Raoul

First the NCAA got after W&M because ofteir nikname/mascot. Now the college has decided to ignore their history all together.


55 posted on 10/29/2006 4:46:14 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine's brother (HOOAH! It's an Army thing.)
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To: Artemis Webb

They all work for the same boss.


56 posted on 10/29/2006 4:49:51 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

If gay marriage passes in VA, it'll become William and Lance...


57 posted on 10/29/2006 7:15:35 AM PST by Doctor Raoul (Difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic is that the Free Clinic knows how to stop a leak.)
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To: ViLaLuz
W&M is under attack lately. Didn't the NCAA force them to remove the two feathers from their logo because it's offensive to Indians?

I haven't been aware of that, but it would not surprise me.

58 posted on 10/29/2006 7:16:44 AM PST by Doctor Raoul (Difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic is that the Free Clinic knows how to stop a leak.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Oh yes, political correctness has run amuck:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52648


59 posted on 10/29/2006 10:39:38 AM PST by ViLaLuz (Stop the ACLU - Support the Public Expression of Religion Act 2005 - Call your congressmen.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Guess it's time to start PAINTING the dreaded cross on all buildings.. after all, according to most communist judges, grafitti is just a sign of expression..


60 posted on 10/30/2006 11:15:36 AM PST by redstates4ever
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