One of the men who threw the Idols (Pachamama) in the Tiber speaks!

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I also said that it would be mostly fruitless and there were better means to accomplish some of the other goals that some other poster mentioned.
 
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AlbMagno said:
As far as I know, these men were not prophets, and didn’t hear God ordering them to throw statues into the river.
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We don’t need an order from God to do something good.
AlbMagno said:
If anything, they are just making more difficult an evangelization effort carried out by the Vicar of Christ and his Church.
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What evangelization effort? Watching the pagans do their rituals and blessing their idols is evangelization?
 
VanitasVanitatum said:
Besides the internet makes communication completely different so it’s not that comparable to the past.
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Wow, there is a hole big enough to drive mac truck through. When I lie over the telephone its still lying and when I lie over the internet its still lying, even though nature of the communication is different. Thus outrage and backlash over the internet is still outrage and backlash.

The contention that we shouldn’t do something if it causes outrage or backlash is still a false standard, despite whether the outrage/backlash is person to person or mobile device to mobile device.
 
Aquinas11 said:
The contention that we shouldn’t do something if it causes outrage or backlash is still a false standard, despite whether the outrage/backlash is person to person or mobile device to mobile device.
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It doesn’t really pass the cost/benefits analysis, like I said in one of my previous posts.
 
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Adamek said:
What do you think Jesus would say about what is going on in his father’s house?
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Have to butt in here to point out that the Muslims are worshiping God in there, which presumably wouldn’t offend Our Lord. The Muslims’ religion may be false, but their God isn’t.
 
(Trying to respond to post 26, but I’m having a hard time with the quote function)

Back in the day, if you saw some trash like a Playboy magazine left in the Church, wouldn’t you have thrown it out as trash which was left in the Church, as it was contrary to our Faith? Wouldn’t that magazine have belonged to someone? These idols are no different than any other trash. Once the trash is left in a Church, doesn’t it belong to the Church in general?
 
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So if someone donates a jacket to charity in the Church and I don’t like it, can I throw it? How do you define trash?
 
AlbMagno said:
Is stealing good?
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Depends on what is being “stolen” and why. For example, do you think its good to steal a gun from a mass shooter entering a Church to kill people?

A false idol is even more dangerous since it can destroy immortal souls not merely mortal lives.
 
VanitasVanitatum said:
I also said that it would be mostly fruitless and there were better means to accomplish some of the other goals that some other poster mentioned.
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It is fruitless to reveal their true identity now? Why? I think that what Alexander did is plain honesty. He is not afraid to confess that he was the one who cleansed the church of idols because what he did was an honorable thing. You know what is really fruitless? The fruitless thing is for some prelates to hide the fact that they were homosexuals, or that they stole millions from Peter’s Pence, or that they were responsible for covering up crimes made by their fellow prelates, or that they actually have their own political agenda behind the Amazon Synod. It is fruitless because they will soon be exposed. I think these prelates have miscalculated the power of the internet.
 
Sean said:
I would have more respect if he remained anonymous.
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I agree. But most of the people who do good work are a little flawed.

Now the people who allowed the idols in the first place? We’re talking FLAWS😵
 
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That sounds very relative. The Pope says it weren’t idols, why should I not believe him? Why would all people judge it as trash? Why would all people agree on what to do with it?
 
Oh. I thought it was a museum, soon to be a mosque?

Following your logic then, you would have no problem someone conquering the Al Azhar and converting it into a Christian basilica. Same God, same prayers, no difference?
 
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rom said:
You know what is really fruitless? The fruitless thing is for some prelates to hide the fact that they were homosexuals, or that they stole millions from Peter’s Pence, or that they were responsible for covering up crimes made by their fellow prelates, or that they actually have their own political agenda behind the Amazon Synod. It is fruitless because they will soon be exposed.
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Iagree completely, but that’s not evidence that going public isn’t.
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I think that what Alexander did is plain honesty. He is not afraid to confess that he was the one who cleansed the church of idols because what he did was an honorable thing.
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I don’t see how that’s proportionate with creating problems for the Church.
 
Day Idols were tossed = critics said “why are they anonymous? very cowardly to not reveal identity!”

Day Identity revealed = critics say “why are they coming forward? publicity stunt!!”
 
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