If Mayor Ed Hagerty wants to do God's work, he should try feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and tending to the sick. The only thing a big cross will do for your community is show people where the hypocrites live.

Big deal. A mayor in a town in a Christian nation based on Christian ideals wants to put a Christian symbol up, and he doesn't even want to use public funds to do it. Can someone please explain why this is a big deal, or are we just trying hard to find things to become outraged about as usual?

xl5150: A mayor in a town

Missed a "Christian" or two.

Coelacanth: If Mayor Ed Hagerty wants to do God's work, he should try feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and tending to the sick. The only thing a big cross will do for your community is show people where the hypocrites live.

Over in one.

Coelacanth: If Mayor Ed Hagerty wants to do God's work, he should try feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and tending to the sick. The only thing a big cross will do for your community is show people where the hypocrites live.

I thought the whole purpose of the giant cross was to make the citizens feel like self-righteous Christians without having to do all that other shiat.

Sure. As long as we can have a bigger Baphomet pentagram and an even huger crescent with the shahada inscribed around it.

Coelacanth: If Mayor Ed Hagerty wants to do God's work, he should try feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and tending to the sick. The only thing a big cross will do for your community is show people where the hypocrites live.

do you know for a fact that he does not feed the hungry, house the homeless or tend to the sick?

xl5150: Big deal. A mayor in a town in a Christian nation based on Christian ideals wants to put a Christian symbol up, and he doesn't even want to use public funds to do it. Can someone please explain why this is a big deal, or are we just trying hard to find things to become outraged about as usual?

Shameless showings of faith are not Christian ideas. Feeding the hungry, tending to the sick and imprisoned, caring for the poor, those things are.

When I read stories like this, I thank God I don't live in the South.

And still no Robocop statue in Detroit?

Must have larger Rapture antenna!

Coelacanth: feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and tending to the sick.

41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

45 "He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

Yep, that's the face of a repressed, self-loathing closet case.

dj_bigbird: This dbag needs to read his own Bible, maybe Matthew 6:5
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.

quote that part about throwing stones. That seems very appropriate for you.

Coelacanth: If Mayor Ed Hagerty wants to do God's work, he should try feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and tending to the sick. The only thing a big cross will do for your community is show people where the hypocrites live.

^ So much this! I am happy with him not going to be using public funds for it (and hopefully he won't be giving any special permit or easement that wouldn't be allowable to anyone else, meaning giving preference to the cross going up), but it seems hypocritical of him to just put a cross up and leave it at that instead of doing things that would help others which is supposed to be in the ideals of the religion he follows. He could even use government funds to help create homeless shelters, soup kitchens, affordable housing (section 8), or other things that would be in tune with his religion. But it seems that all he wants to do with his mayoral position is say, "I'm a Christian and I think you should be a Christian too."

This shiat is getting old.

He looks like he should be the crazy guy in a comedy film.

xl5150: Big deal. A mayor in a town in a Christian nation based on Christian ideals wants to put a Christian symbol up, and he doesn't even want to use public funds to do it. Can someone please explain why this is a big deal, or are we just trying hard to find things to become outraged about as usual?

The GOP has the random "find things to be outraged about" angle covered.

As for this, it's just stupid. There is really no other word to describe it. But then again, there are lots of stupid people and stupid towns in the South, so by all means, let them have their cross.

And then let it be struck down in the court as unconstitutional as it should be.

Idiot.

Perhaps his god will help replace the federal funds to which his city will no longer have access.

"I like that he's not afraid to speak about God," said Darlene Kemp, who works in Mt. Juliet.

Yeah, because so many Christians have been crucified for their faith in Tennessee.

Why no "Hero" tag, subby?

Sounds like a pice of shiat that needs the white slapped off of him in a dark alleyway after dark in dark town.
Tight pussy, loose shoes and a warm place to vote.

For only 50% more, I could get double the order -- for a double cross.

Pay for it with private money. Put it on private land. Then you can call it what ever you want, for the city, or whatever.

"You go by a lot of big shopping areas, and you don't see that," he said. "You see only commerce."

(...)

He said he wants to see a megachurch similar to Bellevue Baptist or Two Rivers in Nashville that could draw large crowds to the city on Sundays and benefit local businesses.

*sigh*

xl5150: Big Christian deal. A Christian mayor in a Christian town in a Christian nation based on Christian ideals wants to put a Christian symbol up, and he doesn't even want to use public Christian funds to do it. Can Christian someone please explain why this is a big Christian deal, or are we just trying hard to find Christian things to become outraged about as usual?

Fixed that for you.

A sports car is a much more fun small penis symbol.

While not everyone in town embraces Christianity, Hale said a lot of citizens do, and a lot of local churches are true to the gospel.

Or his particular personal interpretation of it, which just happens to completely line up with his own personal opinions. Those other churches just teach crap.

This does remind me a bit about how the various SCV camps in Tennessee and Georgia are having dick-waving contests to see who can put up the tallest battle-flag flagpole near an interstate.

xl5150: Big deal. A mayor in a town in a Christian nation based on Christian ideals wants to put a Christian symbol up, and he doesn't even want to use public funds to do it. Can someone please explain why this is a big deal, or are we just trying hard to find things to become outraged about as usual?

well, one it is really fun to poke at said satus quo's established structures in society regarding religion.

As you point out, him not using public funds makes this a non-story for me; is easy fodder for stupid people who only read headlines / hear gossip.


On the other hand, my GAWD his face screams he is covering something else up. Or he has personally met Jesus.

/Lawdy Lawdy, i do believe i have the vapors!
//Creepy Jesus? In MY neighborhood?!?!

AirForceVet: Coelacanth: If Mayor Ed Hagerty wants to do God's work, he should try feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and tending to the sick. The only thing a big cross will do for your community is show people where the hypocrites live.

Because it's easier to built a giant cross as an idol than do God's work with the hungry, homeless, and the sick.

Besides, that stuff's all Commie, unamerican Nazi socialism, anyway.

Millions_Knives: And still no Robocop statue in Detroit?

I think they are working on a Eminem statue after he used his powers to help Chrysler.

Andy Hale, pastor of First Baptist Church Mt. Juliet, said he appreciated the mayor's desire for Mt. Juliet to be a Christian community, but he said churches leading people to Christian lives was more important than any symbol.

Pastor Hale takes a very reasonable middle ground. Mayor Hagerty wants a McChurch in a town that already has 50 churches. Maybe the Mayor should listen to the Pastor. And the Commissioner.

/But whatever the people want.
//I don't live there.

rebelyell2006: This does remind me a bit about how the various SCV camps in Tennessee and Georgia are having dick-waving contests to see who can put up the tallest battle-flag flagpole near an interstate.

And they do a great job of pointing out the adult stores.

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I have a Rentboy's pinky tickling my prostate right now

That's not the batshiat crazy mayor. That's the Baptist Pastor who said " ... he appreciated the mayor's desire for Mt. Juliet to be a Christian community, but he said churches leading people to Christian lives was more important than any symbol."

Antimatter: xl5150: Big deal. A mayor in a town in a Christian nation based on Christian ideals wants to put a Christian symbol up, and he doesn't even want to use public funds to do it. Can someone please explain why this is a big deal, or are we just trying hard to find things to become outraged about as usual?

Shameless showings of faith are not Christian ideas. Feeding the hungry, tending to the sick and imprisoned, caring for the poor, those things are.

Are you a Christian? More specifically are you a Christian living in Mt. Juliet?

So what if a town that is likely predominantly Christian wants to place a symbol of their faith without using public funds and desire a mega-church. It's their right to be hypocrites if that's what it makes them.

If a largely Jewish town wants a Star of David or a largely Muslim town wants a crescent they can have it too.

Is it that you feel that this would be shoving Christianity in your face even though I'd bet you'll never go anywhere near that town?

Absolutely! He can have it! As long as he pays for it with private funds and locates it on private property, I'm all for it.

Pastor Andy Hale

I read that as "Pasty Andy Hale".

Meh.

I can't condemn the demagoguery of an elected official when this is what the constituents demand.

If people weren't ignorant arseholes we would have statesmen in charge instead.