[Salvation]

[martin_fierro]

Dude, if you're gonna deface any Serra statue, deface this one overlooking I280.

It could only improve its looks.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“Statue of Newly Sainted Missionary Vandalized in Carmel By NBC Bay Area Staff “

Will the NBC Bay Area Staff be held accountable for this.

[DesertRhino]

I’m no Catholic, but Serra was a man deserving to be honored. Lived a simple life, a humble man who held himself to a very tough standard as a priest. Then he traveled to California. From Spain he might as well have been on Mars. And he tried to civilize the heathen Indians.

Only a sorehead would not have respect for him.

[UnwashedPeasant]

White self-righteous liberals.

[Redbob]

"...some Native Americans say the California's missions, which Serra helped found, cut their ancestors off from their traditional languages and cultures..."

And dragged them kicking and screaming out of the Stone Age, introducing them to such novel concepts as written language, metal-working, the wheel...

[xp38]

Statue of Newly Sainted Missionary Vandalized in Carmel By NBC Bay Area Staff

I know what it means but reading it straightforward is almost believable.

[onedoug]

Cortez had it right. Or, at least his missionaries did.