Church Puts up Stained Glass Window of Judas' Suicide

Creative Minority Report ^ | May 5, 2014 | Matthew Archbold

[NYer]

There are bad ideas, really bad ideas, and then there's this...

Yup. It's a picture of Judas hanging himself and the coins dropping out of his hand are turning into flowers. Why? I'm not really sure.

The Church Times reports that the window had been turned down in years past because "church authorities at the time deemed the subject of suicide unfitting."

No!!!!?

Two years ago, the Rector, the Revd Jacqueline Birdseye, and her parishioners re-examined the issue. She said on Tuesday: "It seemed that everybody wanted it to go ahead; we had a PCC meeting, and the vote was unanimous. We spent a long time just making sure that we got the procedure right.

"Back then, many people regarded suicide as an unforgivable sin; but people's attitudes have changed. I have known several families who have been touched by suicide, and we felt that it was the right thing to have in church. Churches are not just about angels and Easter happiness."

Yes, let's put Jesus' crucifixion and Judas' suicide on the same plane. That sounds like a brilliant idea. Never mind that Jesus said it would've been better if he had not been born.

[RichInOC]

Where there are worse ideas to be executed, the C of E will execute them. And how.

[RichInOC]

And by the way, you know you can’t get to heaven on roller skates.

[gitmo]

The baby pasture wanted to watch TV. Dad told him, “It’s pasture bedtime, son.”

[RichInOC]

nully, mortal sin is based on your doing something gravely wrong, knowing it’s gravely wrong and choosing to do it anyway. You’re probably going to die if you jump off a burning tower, but at that point you may not have much if any choice in the matter of whether you’re going to die anyway. (See the World Trade Center, 9/11/01.)

[null and void]

Yes. Despite my lack of faith, the medieval Pope’s stance gave me some slight comfort that dark day.

[Albion Wilde]

“It’s pasture bedtime, son.”

LOL!!

[verga]

No less an authority than a medieval Pope declared that jumping from a burning tower (clearly an act of suicide) wasn't a mortal sin.

There is such a thing as a "Noble" suicide. a scriptural example would be Samson, a modern one might be Thích Quảng Đức, or the soldier that throws himself on a hand grenade to save another.