Posted on 09/15/2009 9:17:13 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
SUBOTICA -- Vandals have knocked down a statue of Martin Luther located in central Subotica.
The monument was erected less than two years ago.
Vice President of the Evangelistic Church Municipality Rudolf Vajs said that he believed that more than one person was responsible, because the monument weighed 300 kilograms.
“The police have been informed and have investigated the scene. An investigation is ongoing and we hope that it will be successful and the culprits will be caught,” Vajs said.
He said that Subotica had sent a negative message to the world with this act, adding that it was important for the culprits to be caught and punished.
The monument was erected on Reformation Day, on October 31, 2007.
Subotica is in Serbia.
Racists! Oh, wait.
I’ll vouch for Petronski. He was playing cards at my place.
Surely some mistake.
I presume you had to provide the full deck?
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Subotica is in Serbia.
Oh. From the header I thought it was located on Gliese 581 in the northern part of the Andromeda Galaxy. .. My bad.
Naw, has to be outside provocateurs. Why I remember to this day all those posts on the FR back in Clinton’s days where I was assured that all Serbs are paragons of moral virtue and Radovan Karadjic and Milosevic were stalwart defenders of human rights!
I tend to doubt they were bowing down before the MLK statue and praying to it, or giving gifts to it. Also, the MLK statue was of an oridary man, not an attempt at making an image of God in the flesh.
Nobody’s offering religious veneration of any sort to an image of Martin Luther.
Oops! Misread the title. I was wondering why the Serbs would have a statue of him anyway.
A statue of a religious leader, like Luther, might have slightly more potential for idolatry, but I seriously doubt the anything resembling worship of the statue was going on.
MLK?
Probably not up to speed on Balkan affairs are you?
Careful there, if you start derailing serious religious threads with shallow attempts at sarcastic humor, it may lead to more “altar boy” jokes than you care to think about.
Just sayin...
I knew it wouldn’t take long. Thank you.
Ahhhhhhh...........*wink*..........got it!!
Statue of Martin Luther = good!!
Statue of St. Joseph or Jesus himself = bad!!
So what exactly is the statue for?
Hmmmmmmmmm........OK, so it would be fine to build a statue of an "ordinary" man like St. Peter or St. Paul, for instance but not Jesus Christ, is that it?
Please advise.
>>>Hmmmmmmmmm........OK, so it would be fine to build a statue of an “ordinary” man like St. Peter or St. Paul, for instance but not Jesus Christ, is that it?
Please advise.<<<
Do you think Jesus Christ is nothing greater than an “ordinary” man?
A statue of an ordinary man is not making Almighty God into a statue. I don’t have a problem with a statue of Peter, Paul, etc., as long as people don’t pray to it (or “with it”), worship it, or offer sacrifices or gifts to it.
To make an image and pray to it, or say “this is what God looks like” is idolatry.
As long as nobody bows down, prays to or in anyway worships a statue of an ordinary person, it is not idolatry. When one makes an image of God it is idolatry.
What a precious personal attack.
Larry, you’re a mensch.
Thanks, by the way, for taking my marker. I’m good for it, I swear.
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