[MitzaLizalor]

Edited for Brevity

What on earth is that?

[Johny Joe Hold]

It's not a fair contest if the other team can worship any old false idol. Statues must be a bona fide Jesus not some imaginary character from a book.

So true, Dr. Tooley. What's coming next, a Flying Spaghetti Monster statue?

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

It's not a fair contest if the other team can worship any old false idol. Statues must be a bona fide Jesus not some imaginary character from a book.

[MitzaLizalor]

___to collect money, or, for the Pope to stand on___

There was a pope who said he WAS poverty, whatever that means. Not that he embraced poverty or recommended poverty but actually was poverty. That had to be the most ludicrous statement I'd ever heard from any religious figure, with plenty to choose from: dogma; indulgences; the inquisition; extreme tacky architecture, described as inspiring; that kissing sacred statues is not idolatrous; please donate money for repairs (to the tawdry edifice du jour) suggesting the latest incumbent—presumably not "being" poverty—may well stand on a plinth waving the arms and sprinkling his assembled throng.

Mary, as depicted, looks like a marzipan decoration you'd put on a cake, gotten from a basic confectioner. I wouldn't eat it, that's for sure. Perhaps in the new era of œcumenism there'll be a married pope soon?

[Johny Joe Hold]

She seems to be hovering but it's not fooling anyone. Right there, within those weird looking columns, you can see the pedestal – no doubt they'll swarm all over the thing, touching it and saying she cured their nits.

Good observations, Sister Mitza. The entire thing looks cheap. Are the pedestal there to collect money, or, for the Pope to stand on when he confesses his sins? I think the entire thing will be covered with bird dung soon.

[MitzaLizalor]

She seems to be hovering but it's not fooling anyone. Right there, within those weird looking columns, you can see the pedestal – no doubt they'll swarm all over the thing, touching it and saying she cured their nits.

More importantly, as a matter of environmental sensitivity, our own larger architectural feature—perhaps 3D printed to comply with God's prohibitions against idols which so-called "Marys" certainly do not—will need protection from the elements. Acid rain, as promoted by tree huggers, contains sulphuric acid for example, with atmospheric particulates being even more destructive. Now these may be urban myths, nevertheless an environmental activist who believes them may suffer anxiety at the vulnerability of architecture generally, whether additively constructed or carved from wood ..oh dear ..and that would involve murdering a tree. Taken together, these factors may well prevent an appreciation of Christ's suffering and neopagan wretches may never become Christians.

The solution is simple. Cover any such items with a protective film that acid rain & erosive particles can't destroy. The architecture, whether wood or stone or up-to-the-minute polymers, will be protected and by using an inert metal (such as gold) a tasteful but striking impression would result. And relieved of concerns about environmental impacts, even a crystal guru could find Jesus.

[Johny Joe Hold]

We need the tallest statue of Jesus in Freehold now more than ever. Each year some lukewarm Christian pays for another huge statue. We sit here in Freehold with none.

Another example just came across my desk. Apparently, a small town in Poland has a rich guy nearby who built the highest statue of Mary, 180 feet high, in the world. It is higher than the Jesus statue in the Andes. We cannot allow this to go unchallenged. I'm guessing there will be uninformed Catholics in the U.S. going to Poland to see this thing. They should be coming to Freehold to see Jesus. Right next to our statue we could broadcast on a loudspeaker a sermon by Pastor Zeke reminding Catholics that Moses destroyed the golden calf and their worship idol statues will be met by punishment.

[MitzaLizalor]

higher than Jesus of the Andes






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Foreigners! No wonder they wanna leave!! If they'd built it farther back (ARROWED) it would be even higher!!! The thing in the Andes owes its height to being on top of a mountain!!!!

[Johny Joe Hold]

The contest for the tallest statue of Jesus is heating up and we at Landover Baptist are the only group to take it on. Now there is a new competitor. It is some country I'm not familiar with, Armenia. Apparently, there are some Christians there. That nothing place has under construction a statue of Jesus higher than Jesus of the Andes and higher than the Statue of Liberty. If we are going to honor Jesus, His statue needs to be in an important place, not Armenia.

We have to remember, Jesus loves capitalism. The highest Jesus statue needs to be visible from an interstate highway. There need to be places where tourists can take selfies. An airport nearby needs to offer helicopter flights at eye level.

World’s tallest Jesus statue being constructed in Armenia | Church & Ministries

[Madame Frottage]

What a sad banned sinner.

[daniels_connect]

You baptits xians seem to think you rule the world. Just wait til Satan get his hooks in you. He will stick his big [ *** UNGODLY CUSSING REMOVED BY ONE OF JESUS'S MOST FAITHFUL MODERATORS *** ]

[Isabella White]

We have not been able to get our tallest statue of Jesus up yet. We need to keep working on it. Now, we have another competitor. Some nowhere Catholic place in Italy is about to finish the highest cross in the world. We cannot have that, especially when it's Catholic. It will take a while to best that cross but we have to do it.

Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church reaches its peak with Tower of Jesus Christ | AP News

Oh, I am not surprised by this — not at all — dear Brother Mayor Hold. And, considering that this pertains to those Cathyolicks, why, I would not put it past them to NOT use a statue of the , but to use one of Mary instead — just as they have done here!






P.S. — Kindly stand by for non-stop propaganda from that -bound Cathyolick, Mr. Rovagnati, as he attempts to justify this sinful suggestion!

[Johny Joe Hold]

We have not been able to get our tallest statue of Jesus up yet. We need to keep working on it. Now, we have another competitor. Some nowhere Catholic place in Italy is about to finish the highest cross in the world. We cannot have that, especially when it's Catholic. It will take a while to best that cross but we have to do it.

Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church reaches its peak with Tower of Jesus Christ | AP News

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Landover Can Build the Highest Statue of Jesus

That's the Catholics for you. Idols, idols everywhere.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Landover Can Build the Highest Statue of Jesus

And what about that thing @ 4:27? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!!!!!!!! Idols give me the creeps.

Well I found out what it was. A madonna-and-child-type image from the Ubaid period. From the Met Museum in New York a little more information is available.

In the period 5500–4000 B.C., much of Mesopotamia shared a common culture, called Ubaid after the site where evidence for it was first found. Characterized by a distinctive type of pottery, this culture originated on the flat alluvial plains of southern Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) around 6200 B.C. Indeed, it was during this period that the first identifiable villages developed in the region, where people farmed the land using irrigation and fished the rivers and sea (Persian Gulf). Thick layers of alluvial silt deposited every spring by the flooding rivers cover many of these sites. Some villages began to develop into towns and became focused on monumental buildings, such as at Eridu and Uruk. The Ubaid culture spread north across Mesopotamia, gradually replacing the Halaf culture ... There was much continuity between the Ubaid culture and the succeeding Uruk period, when many of the earlier traditions were elaborated, particularly in architecture.

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ubai/hd_ubai.htm

Get that last sentence. There was much continuity between the Ubaid culture and the succeeding Uruk period, when many of the earlier traditions were elaborated, particularly in architecture. And not only archirecture. THIS. IS. EXACTLY. WHAT. ABRAHAM. WAS. GETTING. AWAY. FROM. And there's line of continuity in idols from that atrocious thing to Ur and Babylon, then via assorted barbaric creeds to Rome. What precise mutterings went along with that, who knows? The mumblings of liars are rarely recorded but the idols stay the same, apart from adjustments for dress styles or hats which is convenient because it's one way to date them for example a "Mary" idol with a grass skirt or a bone through the nose would be a dead giveaway. Here's a little quiz.

A Mary idol in a grass skirt most likely comes from
a Pacific island
Greenland
Tierra del Fuego

A Mary idol with a bone through its nose most likely comes from
England
darkest Africa and she's probably a cannibal
Maine

A Mary idol with 15 arms holding a blue elephant most likely comes from
Japan
Tasmania
India

Abraham was just as revolted as I was. Sometimes I wonder if idolators are ever revolted by anything.