How do you know its Mary?

Seems there is precedence for defiling idolatrous images.

 

Amen Jim!!



Peace,

Tam

 

It is always a sin to do evil that good may come.
Typical that we justify it.

Of course you do. Just like Christians did in the Crusades and Inquisitions, and USA witch burnings, and clinic bombings, and on and on...

Ahhh, and here we go with a no win situation. Well, what about this and that, and everything else? Sorry, you cannot justify evil, for the sake of good here.

What about adult book stores? Do you see Christian zealots out burning them down and defacing them to save people? No. We only really want to do that to other Christians that disagree with us, or intimidate us by praying while looking at an inantimate object. Now that is worth defacing.

If the young man cared in his heart about saving souls, he would have had an audience there for a LONG time to witness the Gospel to. That was not his intention. His intention was punish people for believing something he doesn't believe.

No, no. Society never deemed prayer is shcool as a moral wrong. Society creates LAWS. It is not a moral law, it is a law of public order. There is a big difference.

Nobody stopped this guy from practicing his faith. He obviously refused to share his faith or save anybody, but rather, just destroy an alternative religious understanding others may have.

You don't try to save the world by taking away every object of temptation, that is ludicrous.

I cannot beleive Christians condone this type of behaviour. Well, at least Evangelical Christians.

Are we now obligated to go burn down all Catholic places of worship because we think people are being led astray? There are a multitude more people in RCC Churches praying to Mary and statues than there were at the bridge.

Will one person here DARE back up their words and go forth and do it? No, because you guys know it is wrong.

How about tell that crowd or people at that crowd about Jesus and how they may be saved? What a great audience to share Jesus with right?

 

Your statement belongs in a bad western movie.

There is also a 'precedence' in the Old Testament for stoning adulters. We also read in the Old Testament of the killing of every living creature, men, women, and children, even the animals, of entire races of poeple who are not of God when the Isrealites crossed into the Promised Land. There is a precedence for plucking out eyes if your gets plucked out. An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. A presedence for Genocide.

Brother, we are not in the Old Testament.

 

It would have been better if he'd have taken a bucket of soapy water and a brush and scrubbed the stain off the wall, rather than adding graffiti.

I really don't understand why the highway department didn't do that right away.

It was on public property, it was a blemish, and it was causing the obstruction of traffic.

Next, we will hear that a boulder is blocking a major highway somewhere, but it can not be moved because it looks like St. Someone-or-other.

This really was idiotic; about on par with the grilled cheese.

 

James, you are a voice of reason.

 

LOL. But I know that the young man did something (even if illegal), which is better than nothing?

Why don't you go out and break the law, like desecrating a public place, you know, a billboard advertising an adult entertainment club, rather than sit there and do nothing?

This logic is confounding indeed. And I am sure, as a Christian, you wouldn't do that.

Lets just be dead level honest. We are just glad some Catholic idolaters were so dissapointed. Thats what makes us happy about it.

 

I do find it a tad funny that he has been arrested for defacing public property. Of course, I'm just kind of sick that way.

 

So true. And a precursor of utmost neccessity...

 

Music4him quoted as justification:

Well, of course I think it is out of context, but WHY?

Jesus didn't go out into the 'public market place' and do this, He did it INSIDE THE TEMPLE. And rightly so.

Your validation of his public act using a Temple act considered out of context? You already suspected that I think.

Never the less, I am sure we have beat this topic to death. lol.

No hard feeling folks I hope.

 

If others were painting or writing on the wall also, I suppose I would seek permission to write some scriptures on the wall. Something like the following.

Leviticus 19 31Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 20 6And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people

1 Chronicles 10 13So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it; 14And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

Isaiah 8 19And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

If I were not allowed to do this, then I suppose that I would go to the site and hand out materials exposing the deception of the false doctrines of the church of Rome concerning Mary, the state of the dead, and who it really is that answers you when you try to speak to the dead.

Bye for now. Y. b. in C. Keith