Hands Broken Off Of Granite Jesus Statue At Carlow University (Pittsburgh)

CBS Local Pittsburgh ^ | July 19, 2017

[Ciexyz]

Why would someone do this? Beyond belief.

[Scrambler Bob]

Or put him in a deep hole in a granite quarry.

Where he trades a bucket of granite chips for food.

[Mrs. Don-o]

With regard to my defending Muslims, I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Please cite an example.

[faucetman]

While I don’t approve of vandalism, there should be no such statue.

Exodus 20: (NKJV)

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth....

Leviticus 26: (NKJV)

1 ‘You shall not make idols for yourselves;
neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;
nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;
for I am the Lord your God.

Acts 17: (NIV)

29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

Romans 1 (NIV)

23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles

Isaiah 42: (NKJV)

I am the Lord, that is My name;
And My glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.

Isaiah 40: (NIV)

18 With whom, then, will you compare God? To what image will you liken him?

[Mrs. Don-o]

BTW, we had drunken adolescents here in Johnson City who desecrated religious grave markers.

Less agile and less ambitious they were, than the Dutch Calvinists who destroyed all the dozens of statues on the facade of the Cathedral in Alkmaar, as far up as their scaffolding would take them; or King Henry VIII's agents who smashed and sacked the splendid Walsingham priory church and had the Catholic sub-Prior Nicholas Mileham hung, drawn and quartered.

No, I don't think it was Dutch Calvinists or malicious Anglicans who did this Pittsburgh desecration we're talking about. Could have been Muslims, who knows? They are today's most spectacular icon-smashers.

Or it could have been freckled drunken louts with a taste for desecration, like in my Tennessee town. I know Pittsburgh. Plenty of drunks in Pittsburgh.

[Kommodor]

I keep seeing people post this “congressional record” thing. Does anybody have an actual link to a .gov archive with this in its contents?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Plenty of drunks in Pittsburgh.

No argument there. Their most frequent legal offense is public urination on the South Side.

[USS Alaska]

When they catch this creep, put him in jail till he carves a perfect replacement.

Nope. The perp will get 20 hours community service, at most.

[newfreep]

The 45 goals were read into the Congressional Record by a Democrat Party Rep, Albert S. Herlong Jr.

These stated goals were never challenged...even by CPUSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_S._Herlong_Jr.

[newfreep]

1/10/1963 Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35

[Kommodor]

Thanks much for the info. I’ve read about this several times, but sometimes wondered if it was legit or one of those internet things.

[Mmmike]

No statues of Jesus. Ok. What about paintings? books? Should we just forget he ever existed?