Posted on 01/22/2012 9:51:05 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
At West Park, Rev. Brashear walked into the church for a morning service to find the 18-inch-diameter bronze basin and lid missing from the baptismal fonts 800-pound base. Holy water straight from the River Jordan had been poured from the missing basin insert into the bases bowl.
About 60 occupiers had rolled out their sleeping bags between the pews the night before as part of their evening ritual, Rev. Brashear recalled. When they returned to the church later, following the pastors discovery, he issued a stern warning: You have 24 hours to find it and to come up with an amends and to come up with a plan. Im sorry and it wont happen again wont work, he scolded.
The artifact vanished just three weeks after a $2,400 Apple MacBook vanished from Brashears office. He told the occupiers that even when the 100-year-old Upper West Side church extended help to addicts during the 1980s drug scourge, no visitors touched its $12,500 sacramental instrument.
Not even crackheads messed with that, he said.
The pastor and a worshipper finally found the missing basin tossed into a small room connected to the church. The lid is still missing. The pastor has given protesters two weeks to vacate the church.
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When you lie down with dogs don’t complain about the fleas
“What was the good deed in this case??
well many would say giving people with no apparent place to sleep a warm place out of the cold was a good christian thing to do.
I understand you would disagree and part of me agrees with you. Those scum could just go back to wherever they came from
Those were the days.
OWSer’s aren’t the homeless
Giving them 2 weeks to leave means they have time to strip the place clean too.
Maybe the good pastor should invite them to his home. Have his wife cook them a hot meal. Let them watch his big screen. Use his WiFi. Borrow his car for delivering drugs. Bed down on his couch with his daughters. Shower in his bathroom. Or does the good pastor’s compassion only extend to risking the church’s possession’s???
The pastor should know the difference between helping and enabling.
The “pastor” is not concerned about the stuff OWS crackheads steal and destroy in the neighborhood during the daytime after he shelters them for the night.
These OWS are god-less communists. Why would anyone expect them to respect a church.
If they ever got real power, the churches would be converted into stables like Stalin did.
Stupid man he should’ve called the police with all of them still there and let them sort it out.
Invite the followers of Satan to stay and set up headquarters in the Chruch?
He’s lost far more than the lid to the fount.
Discernment and judgement are the first.
The poor boob probably actually thought the OWS scum wouldn't take advantage of his church's kindness.
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