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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Police in a Chicago suburb were investigating on Tuesday an act of vandalism at a Catholic church in which the heads were removed from statues of Mary and Joseph in a convent garden.
The destruction was discovered on Sunday, while parishioners at St. Odilo in Berwyn, a largely Hispanic suburb of Chicago, were gathering to mark the upcoming feast on December 12 of Our Lady of Guadalupe, said Pastor Anthony Brankin.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, a depiction of the Mary, holds significance for Hispanic Catholics because of reported apparitions in Mexico in 1531.
Besides removing the heads, vandals also knocked over a statue of Jesus and egged a nativity scene in front of the church, Brankin said.
Brankin said he learned of the incident when someone screamed.
Vandalism of Nativity scenes in front of U.S. churches are common around Christmastime. Sometimes statues of the infant Jesus are stolen from such displays.
"It was very intentional, I think, to do something against religion in a very religious week and a very religious month," Brankin said.
Berwyn Police confirmed their investigation, but had no comment.
(Reporting by Mary Wisniewski)
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my friend said theres a video of a psycho kid throwing food at a thanksgiving dinner all because he hates his parents for being christian |
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@Rob
There is nothing wrong with Christianity. The teachings are love, acceptance and caring, people who have a problem with that perhaps have no bleeding hearts.
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I'm a Roman Catholic and I see you have an Irish flag pin and just so you know I'm Irish too. People who don't believe God are usually really butthurt, how would they feel if we made fun of them for not believing in God? |
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@Rob
I am not Irish, rather I am Italian, however I support my brothers in arms against the tyranny of Britain.
Also, those people are rightly called Nihilists.
Look that word up if you don't know what it means, it pretty much dictates that life isn't worth living so why try?
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This is childish immature acts on a stupid level.
If you want to hit em where it's going to really count, don't spend any money with retailers, boycott holiday sales, only buy your necessary living items, nothing else. |
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@iNeuro
By boycotting you end up trumping yourself. - The Free Market of a Capitalist Utopia needs revenue to create jobs, without that there would be a lack and therefore inflation might occur.
Not like those fools would have jobs anyways.
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EXcellentJoin Date: 2009-02-22
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"There is nothing wrong with Christianity."
Ah, now I understand why you called me out in the other thread. You seem to give the appearance of a god-fearing, ultra-nationalist tea partier.
Good for you. |
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@EXcellent
I would love, love for you to explain what is wrong with Christianity?
I'm a Neocon-socially, Libertarian-Fiscally.
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I'm not spending money on a holiday I don't celebrate. My money says in my pocket, you stay broke, all the while the corporations laugh all the way to the bank at idiots like you. |
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@iNeuro
I take it you're one of those anarchist, socialist guys right.
What a pity.
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"I take it you're one of those anarchist, socialist guys right.
What a pity."
No, I'm not
Save your pity for your ignorant self. |
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EXcellentJoin Date: 2009-02-22
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"I would love, love for you to explain what is wrong with Christianity?"
Except I don't want to post three paragraphs of atrocities and crimes committed since the Catholic Church was founded, so I recommend Google as a reliable source. |
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@EXcellent
State your sources.
And state the atrocities.
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"The teachings are love, acceptance and caring, people who have a problem with that perhaps have no bleeding hearts."
Now is the time to practice what you preach and shut your mouth |
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@iNeuro
To speak an opinion in the name of faith differs from speaking an opinion for the sake of righteous defense, sigh you people are quite malicious.
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"State your sources.
And state the atrocities."
I just want to point out you're blindly accepting whatever biased information you're fed, like I did back in 7th-8th grade. Then I started reading more and more into it.
Agnostic Theist here, how do you do. |
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@EXcellent
What ever you say will not be taken for account unless you name them, silly goose, how else does a debate work?
Lmao.
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"To speak an opinion in the name of faith differs from speaking an opinion for the sake of righteous defense, sigh you people are quite malicious."
When you told me boycotting was useless, the reason you gave wasn't religious, your point is invalid. |
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EXcellentJoin Date: 2009-02-22
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"What ever you say will not be taken for account unless you name them, silly goose, how else does a debate work?"
Except I'm not looking to get involved in a serious debate right now. |
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@EXcellent
Therefore your opinion no longer matters and shall not be accounted for. Brb gonna try to get the Festive Valk.
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EXcellentJoin Date: 2009-02-22
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"Therefore your opinion no longer matters and shall not be accounted for."
Kay, have fun flying blind. |
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