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Jul. 3rd, 2006 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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A Memphis church on Tuesday will unveil a 72-foot-tall replica of the Statue of Liberty, except this Lady Liberty holds a cross instead of a torch.
The Statue of Liberation also replaces the famous inscription with the lines "Give me your tired, your poor ... " with Roman numerals representing the Ten Commandments.
A tear falling from her right eye represents her concern for America, church pastor Apostle Alton R. Williams said.
Church members said that the Statue of Liberation shows "America belonging to God through Jesus Christ."
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Date: 2006-07-03 05:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-07-03 06:16 pm (UTC)(1:53:42 PM) Harald387: http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/state/article/0,1406,KNS_348_4818531,00.html
(1:55:39 PM) Aynjel: ...
(1:55:40 PM) Aynjel: That's.
(1:55:42 PM) Aynjel: horrifying.
(1:55:48 PM) Aynjel: Utterly horrifying.
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Date: 2006-07-03 06:22 pm (UTC)Do I even have to tell you how offensive this is?
I really wish the US educational system would bring back decent civics classes and beat it through these fuckwits' thick skulls that the US is not, was never and will never be a "christian nation" (because gods help me, if it gets close to that far, I'll lead the fucking Revolution myself).
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Date: 2006-07-03 06:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-03 06:51 pm (UTC)But if you complain, you're oppressing the poor persecuted helpless minority Christians, because you hate and fear their God.
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Date: 2006-07-03 07:56 pm (UTC)And you know, the whole fixation on the cross thing is creepy to begin with. I mean, if Jesus had been hanged instead of crucified, would people walk around with nooses on their necks and put gallows up on their churches? It's the same thing, really. Morbid and creepy. I mean, honestly.
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Date: 2006-07-03 08:04 pm (UTC)My sister and I got royally bitched out for "blasphemy" for making exactly these sorts of remarks one afternoon in Hobby Lobby (this was before we learned that they aren't just Christian owned, but also contribute directly to Dominionist causes, and stopped shopping there).
We were looking at soap and candy molds and talking about how creeped out we would feel if we went to someone's house and found crucifix candy or crucifix soap, and how disrespectful it would be to wash your hands with someone's dead god.
A lady in the aisle overheard and screamed at us that "HE DIED FOR YOU!", and generally freaked out. And here, I thought that we were being respectful by not wanting to eat or wash up with the likeness of a crucified philosopher.
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Date: 2006-07-03 08:35 pm (UTC)-- Steve's wondering if they're keeping this version of Liberty in its burka. (Yes, the red stuff's probably packing material, but the other interpretation's so a propos, no?)
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Date: 2006-07-04 12:10 am (UTC)Wow! I would think that'd be more respectful to, but then... if it's okay to eat his body (aka sacrament) I guess they figure it's okay to wash with it too. *shudder* Creepy! Although... Tyler Durden did teach that you make the best soap with human flesh. Maybe they make those for First Church of Fight Club? :P
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Date: 2006-07-04 02:32 am (UTC)Dominionists have too way too many parallels in belief with Islamists.
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