“The man in charge of the team which rescued the statue said he had taken the time to recover the relic when there were still 21 people missing because “it seemed like the right thing to do.”
“When we entered the crumbled churches around L’Aquila after the earthquake, we always recovered the sacred objects,”
Wow! You know, that’s really a frightening prospect. To think that they would look upon a relic as more valuable than a human being? I can’t help but be reminded of God’s word about how we worship the created rather than the CREATOR. I can just imagine drowning and some idiot starts swimming for me and then instead of rescuing ME as I gasp for air, he goes for the golden calf.
And the general John Q. Public does not understand the significance of that!