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'This is an attack on the church.' Jesus statue beheaded at SW Miami-Dade Catholic church

Carli Teproff
Miami Herald
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:14 UTC

A statue of Jesus Christ as the Good Shepherd that has been in the courtyard of a Kendale Lakes Catholic church for decades has been beheaded and police are trying to figure out who is behind the act.

The statue, which sits behind the church at 14187 SW 72nd St., was desecrated sometime Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

"This is an attack on the church," said Mary Ross Agosta, a spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Miami. "This is not only private property, it is sacred property."

Ross Agosta said church personnel found the statue with its head on the ground just before 8 a.m.

"This is not something you can trip over and say, 'Oh, sorry,' " she said. "Someone did this intentionally."

The incident comes on the heels of an attack on an Orlando-area church over the weekend. Steven Shields, 23, was charged with arson after deputies say he plowed a minivan through the front door of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala and set it on fire.

Ross Agosta said there is surveillance video of the Kendale Lakes incident that has been handed over to police, she said.

Miami-Dade police said officers from the Hammock's District and the Department of Homeland Security are looking into the matter.

"People find peace at these types of places, especially during these times," said Argemis Colome, a spokesman for Miami-Dade police. "We want to ensure the community that MDPD will look into the matter so people can continue to feel safe."

Comment: So not just statues of "racist" figures in history - but all statues, and all figures of history - or in this case religious figures. What insanity we're seeing on display.

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Reader Comments

Psstoffgoy · 2020-07-18T05:56:09Z

"People find peace at these types of places, especially during these times,"

It looks to me peace is exactly what they don't want anyone to have.

Ruth · 2020-07-18T08:32:25Z

This really is a sign of the times. Perhaps they want to do this to ordinary people too?

BluLiteDancing · 2020-07-18T09:04:54Z

Can we take a step back...The Globalists have had at least 100 years to think about the “destruction” of America. What do they usually do? Well, most often they control both sides of the narrative..People must think outside the box if they want an alternative reality other than a new world order.

beatrixbe ·

Hate crime.

· 2020-07-18T15:09:40Z

Eventide · 2020-07-18T15:28:54Z

Considering the damage the Catholic church has done to Christianity over the millennia, by inserting its own pompous and self-serving claims to authority into the human search for spiritual meaning, this beheaded Christ is a very appropriate image, I think.

beatrixbe ·

sloppy logic

· 2020-07-18T15:52:26Z

Eventide · 2020-07-18T15:58:44Z

beatrixbe I'm trying to wring some cogent thoughts from your two defensive words, but not succeeding.

beatrixbe · 2020-07-19T02:30:33Z

lsjarvi It's about a symbol of Christianity, not the Catholic Church. THAT'S the attack, and that's my point. The Catholic Church is superfluous is this attack. The demonic force is attacking our symbols of faith (Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, eg) in whatever way they can; churches/religious faiths are just by the wayside.

Cogent gets to the point, not via bias or opinion.

Eventide · 2020-07-19T03:23:40Z

beatrixbe Oh - that's why people are setting fires in churches? Because they're 'by the wayside' ? How about it's because people aren't finding churches or religious dogma to be meeting their spiritual needs? The 'flock' is getting less flock-ish, isn't it? How can these acts of destruction be directed toward Christ, when no one - including the priests and pastors - has any idea who Christ is? These angry people see hypocrites and moldy dogmas. They're tearing it down because it NEEDS to be torn down. Maybe then, something living and truly nurturing to the human spirit can be born.

beatrixbe · 2020-07-19T12:12:39Z

lsjarvi The brainwashed ppl doing this are PAID minions under the auspices of Geo Soros, part of the demonic faction (in charge of social chaos etc) who wants to demoralize communities and nations in general, as well as desecrate and demolish religious symbols, institutions and, finally, ppl's faith, in general.

All institutions have been infiltrated by these demonic factions.

Think bigger, not just from a tiny moralistic platform, and have a good Sunday.

Eventide · 2020-07-19T14:12:59Z

beatrixbe George Soros, if he has his hand in this pie, (and I don't doubt that he could or would), has to work with something already living in people. Psychopaths and 'demonic factions' use and amplify already-existing impulses. If you observe people and how they get drawn into, and can be prodded into acting as amplifiers, of destructive motives, you can see powerful, subconscious motivations that are looking for an outlet in the human psyche and needing to be made more conscious. These motives appear to be destructive, but from a large enough developmental perspective, can invariably be seen to be lawful and even necessary. Was it necessary for Germany, Italy, and Japan to have their romance with fascism in the 30s and 40s? Of course. Is it necessary for the US to do the same today? Of course. How else can people learn what results from giving their personal authority away, and what sorts of powers and principalities take over when they do? Likewise, it is necessary for people to go through a disillusionment with religious authority. How else do people learn the necessity of a conscious personal relationship with divine power and the value of individual moral strength? The adversarial forces, whether disincarnate or incarnate, exist ultimately to teach us important lessons. We may not like what they instigate in people, and may mourn what is destroyed, but this earth is a school that operates in a dualistic reality. All things have a birth and a death. The current earth cycle is designed to enable individuation, and one stage of that is to experience a psychological void - to wander in the proverbial desert, having lost the comfort of a group orientation to divinity that gives authority to self-appointed earthly representatives, and having nothing yet to replace it. Many will fall prey to nihilism and to the machinations of anti-human forces. Eventually, pain motivates growth in consciousness. There's my 'tiny moralistic platform', beatrixbe.

beatrixbe · 2020-07-19T18:17:12Z

lsjarvi you're a peach

i just don't like to see churches attacked, en toto,

b/c it's very simplistic. Aside from the infiltration

and the fallout from that, there are good things about

churches, and the many priests and preachers,

as well as each religion, as each is a facet of the whole.

Granted spirituality trumps religion, but religion

also fosters community and miraculous prayer,

which many ppl need as a means of belonging

and a sense of meaning.

agreed re: the seeds w/in, particularly lately w/ lockdowns

and all the boredom, anger, rage... and the 'elite' know this,

w/ the help of org's like SRI, etc.

Karma, the great equalizer...!!!