Oh Christ...
This is a link to a story in the Chicago Tribune. I don't know which is sillier - the fact that we have a group of people who call themselves the "God Squad," the fact that they need to bolt statues to the ground, or that the reporter and/or the people in this story refer to plastic statues as "the baby Jesus."
Somehow I feel a bit like I've been challenged to a dare.
posted by Michelle @ 1:07 PM
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3 Comments:
Hahahahahaha! At least there is no mention of last year's controversy. I love that they mention the looped recording, because it is the worst part of the scene. It's a twenty year old tape that must play the recording some ridiculous number of times every year, you think the God Squad could afford to re-record the thing.
Are people surprised that they have to bolt the statues down? People's base natures are what they are and people will take anything they can for no other reason than that it is there!
Ha ha ha. Stealing the baby Jesus out of the manger is one of the oldest pranks in the book. Usually it gets swiped for a Curious George doll or something like that. It's stupid, but it's not actually a burn-in-hell offense. (Okay, maybe I can't actually make that call myself, but I'm relatively comfortable with that statement).
It's kind of like the flag-burning thing and the flag-burning amendment. I think people who burn the flag are idiots, but that's what the First Amendment is about, and it really doesn't do much harm other than release whatever toxins are in the flag fabric into the environment. Also, I hate to see people messing about with the Constitution for crap like that.
"Baby Jesus," to show the poor little statue couldn't defend itself. Because, you know, it's just a baby. Or something.
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