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Landover Baptist Pastors Hold Burning of Pagan "Art"
Event an Extension of Acts 19:19 Book Burnings
By Dixon Sydum, LCNS Reporter
FREEHOLD, IA, June 22 (LCNS): Pastors at Landover Baptist Church held a burning of pagan "art" and "artifacts" on June 21. The burning was conducted after the 11:00 service in the church's Satellite Parking Area B, bounded by 4th, 5th, Judges, and Ruth streets.
The pastors and other church congregants burned, smashed, and otherwise destroyed "art" and "artifacts" that glorified false gods or otherwise promoted immorality. The items destroyed included manuscripts of the Qur'an and the Buddhist sutras dating back to the 10th century, oil paintings of Catholic saints, images of Hindu and Mesoamerican deities, and nude paintings, prints, and sculptures spanning five centuries. Sources within the church said that the event had been organized to build upon the success of the church's popular Acts 19:19 book burnings.
At the opening of the ceremony, Pastor Ezekiel Flint rebuked and cast out the demons that infested the "art" works. He then took a sledgehammer and smashed a Peruvian stone sculpture of a deity's head from the early Chavín period (900-500 B.C.). After that, the congregants, praising Jesus, started smashing sculptures and ceramics and carrying paintings and manuscripts to the bonfire.
The works destroyed in the event had been acquired over months from art dealers and auction houses at a cost of $175,000, sources within the church said. The single most expensive piece was a 17th-century oil painting of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.
To finance the acquisition, the church had collected special offerings and reached out to donors. James Roy Stewart, an earthenware-level tither and Freehold native who declined to state his occupation, said that he had had to pawn his computer to donate to the event. "It's things like this," said Stewart, "that make me proud to be a member of a church that does good things with our money."
Event an Extension of Acts 19:19 Book Burnings
By Dixon Sydum, LCNS Reporter
FREEHOLD, IA, June 22 (LCNS): Pastors at Landover Baptist Church held a burning of pagan "art" and "artifacts" on June 21. The burning was conducted after the 11:00 service in the church's Satellite Parking Area B, bounded by 4th, 5th, Judges, and Ruth streets.
The pastors and other church congregants burned, smashed, and otherwise destroyed "art" and "artifacts" that glorified false gods or otherwise promoted immorality. The items destroyed included manuscripts of the Qur'an and the Buddhist sutras dating back to the 10th century, oil paintings of Catholic saints, images of Hindu and Mesoamerican deities, and nude paintings, prints, and sculptures spanning five centuries. Sources within the church said that the event had been organized to build upon the success of the church's popular Acts 19:19 book burnings.
At the opening of the ceremony, Pastor Ezekiel Flint rebuked and cast out the demons that infested the "art" works. He then took a sledgehammer and smashed a Peruvian stone sculpture of a deity's head from the early Chavín period (900-500 B.C.). After that, the congregants, praising Jesus, started smashing sculptures and ceramics and carrying paintings and manuscripts to the bonfire.
The works destroyed in the event had been acquired over months from art dealers and auction houses at a cost of $175,000, sources within the church said. The single most expensive piece was a 17th-century oil painting of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.
To finance the acquisition, the church had collected special offerings and reached out to donors. James Roy Stewart, an earthenware-level tither and Freehold native who declined to state his occupation, said that he had had to pawn his computer to donate to the event. "It's things like this," said Stewart, "that make me proud to be a member of a church that does good things with our money."
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