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Kim Brown Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 6899 | TRs | Pics
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Interesting situation the Flathead National Forest has been involved in.
Seems the USFS has renewed a lease every 10 years for a bit of land upon which a statue of Jesus stands.
Some folks are incensed, some are not.
Check it out.
National FOrest Foundation article.
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
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BigBear Member
Joined: 16 Feb 2010 Posts: 390 | TRs | Pics Location: 509er |
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:48 pm
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I was just skiing at big mountain over Christmas break. The shrine seems kinda weird and out of place but I guess ski lifts are not much different.
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mike Member
Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 6398 | TRs | Pics Location: SJIsl |
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:41 pm
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What's with christians, especially catholics, always putting crosses or statues on every hilltop?
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
No stranger than putting a mailbox or a phone booth up there.
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Toonces unleashed
Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 2401 | TRs | Pics Location: On the pavement, thinking about the government |
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Mon Jan 21, 2013 3:36 pm
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The Angry Hiker wrote: | No stranger than putting a mailbox or a phone booth up there. |
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of mailboxes or phone booths [...]" (Imaginary U.S. Const., am. 1).
If you show fear, a monkey will bully you.
If you show fear, a monkey will bully you.
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RumiDude Marmota olympus
Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 3590 | TRs | Pics Location: Port Angeles |
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Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:19 pm
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I am not incensed but I do think that ugly statue is out of place. If I was a local, I might be tempted to slip up there one night and beautify the place a bit.
Rumi
"This is my Indian summer ... I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all."
"This is my Indian summer ... I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all."
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boot up Old Not Bold Hiker
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 4745 | TRs | Pics Location: Bend Oregon |
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Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:53 pm
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Looks like a Cairn to me.
Angry Hiker....you know what to do.....
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touron Member
Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 10293 | TRs | Pics Location: Plymouth Rock |
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Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:19 pm
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I was incensed the other day...and I still smell kind of unusual.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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contour5 Member
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contour5
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Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:33 pm
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Flathead Jesus seems terribly upset by all of this controversy. Just look at his sad, sad eyebrows:
How shall we cheer him up? Perhaps a new hat and a walking stick would make him feel better!
Quote: | Despite threats from the far left Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation Jesus will stay put on Big Mountain. |
Gateway Pundit Article
Since, as everybody already knows- atheists and non- Christians are all a bunch of sinister bomb-hurling leftists who hate Jesus and the Murican way.
A Catholic/Forest Service management plan to replace the trees with life-sized-or better Jesus replica statues could pay off in a number of ways. First, it would attract new congregants to the one true church, resulting in market gains, with countless souls saved from perdition before they are filed away for all eternity in the cosmic rolodex. And along with all the funds generated by this clever marketing strategy; Think Of The Children! Attendance has lagged at parochial schools in recent years, due to the troubles, but it's nothing an army of Hug-Me-Jesus replica statues can't fix. (That, and periodically rotating half of the priests into new parishes...)
Because really, what makes more sense than using Jesus for a war memorial? The Council of Grand Knights has also shown us the light on keeping the GMLO. Slap a "Jesus Saves" banner up there and declare it a monument to our victory over Grenada or Panama or Osama bin Laden. Maybe a Touchdown Jesus if we decide to call it for Osama.
Come to think of it, a 600 foot Touchdown Jesus on the summit of Mt Rainier would make a lot of sense. Unless you're Buddhist or Hindu or Moslem or a far-left atheist.
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
If it makes you feel any better, you can pretend it's Cat Stevens.
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Blue Dome Now with Retsyn
Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 3144 | TRs | Pics Location: Cleaning up the dogma. |
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Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:47 pm
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You mean Yusuf Islam, the musician formerly known as Cat Stevens.
“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.”
— Harry S. Truman
“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.”
— Harry S. Truman
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contour5 Member
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Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:30 pm
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Nah, we branded him a terrorist for his philanthropy, besides, he's getting too old to stand in for Jesus:
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boot up Old Not Bold Hiker
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 4745 | TRs | Pics Location: Bend Oregon |
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Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:01 pm
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The statue is too white to be Cat Stevens.
hey everyone knows that jesus was a white dude, albeit born in the middle east. Immaculate conception and all that and obviously God is a white man. All the pictures prove it..as does that statue.
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HitTheTrail Member
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 5459 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
boot up wrote: | Immaculate conception |
At least in the book of John!
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onemoremile Member
Joined: 26 Dec 2010 Posts: 1305 | TRs | Pics Location: Sequim |
I wonder if it would be as big an issue if the statue was of someone else? (Lenin, Che, Bhudda, Aldo Leopold)
“Arbolist? Look up the word. I don’t know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it’s an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.” G.W. Bush
“Arbolist? Look up the word. I don’t know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it’s an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.” G.W. Bush
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