Keith_Landry's Blog

ITS A PICTURE OF GODS LOVE, WHEN HE SENT JESUS TO DIE FOR OUR SINS, NO MATTER OUR PAST! AND I WILL SERVE HIM FOREVER! GODS GRACE COVERS ALL!

It's a good reminder of bringing about peace in our day as we drive by and see it. If I am not mistaken, I believe there is another one similar on highway 27 going into or around Haines City, and where that cross is at, it really adds beauty to the surroundings.

This is the United States Of America, there should be no problem to have those symbols of other's faith put on view. Some would complain, but I'm sure there are a lot of complaints about the big cross, too.

As for "freedom"...

What if a mall wanted to put up a 200' Vegas-style digital ligthed sign?

Or a car dealership put up a 200' gorilla balloon with searchlights aimed at it all night?

If this cross is fair game, then the ligted signs and giant gorillas are fair game, too. Let's fill the skyline with a plethora of pap! With a cacophony of kitsch!

Ewwwww.

The cross is a representation of a sacrifice given for sin. Christians believe that Jesus bled and died upon a cross for our sins so that we might have eternal life...and I believe in the story of the cross.
My atheist friend says there is NO GOD, there is NO HEAVEN and NO HELL, the BIBLE is merely a book, and that I am foolish...if HE is right and I am wrong...I've lost nothing by believing...if I am right and HE is wrong...he's lost EVERYTHING.
I have a small cross I carry in my pocket, I have a small cross on a chain that marks special pages of my bible, and I have a cross that hangs in my car...I know that none of them have a magic cure for a disease, none of them are amulets of GOOD LUCK, and none of them will stop hate or violence. BUT they remind me that I know someone who can. If I had the means to erect a thousand foot high cross I would...if it would make people stop for a moment and look up.
We need something to remind us that life here is not the end...for I know for me it makes every day bearable...because I know the man who carried MY CROSS.

Ory, I understand what you say about "if they need a 200' cross ... let them keep it" insofar as ther own rights go. If this church was in a rural neighborhood on a large plot of land or if it were in a city where 200' structures are common, I would not object.

What I object to is a 200' leviathanesque structure being erected in the middle of a RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD, then lit with obtrusive lighting. Such a structure dominates the landscape. Normally, building codes would prevent such monstrosities. Building something like this impacts directly upon the neighborhood. It's easy to say "it doesn't matter" unless you live in the area and have to deal with it, up close, on a daily basis.

WVLADY, the notion that a cross is a symbol of a divine sacrifice is a subjective one. I have no objection to anyone displaying a cross with pride if that is their personal belief. I have SERIOUS objections, however, to the regulations which apply to the rest of us being lifted just because it's a symbol of a majority religion.

This is not medieval Europe! Christianity is not mandated by the government and rammed down our throats. It's a personal thing and should be allowed to be practiced - AS LONG AS IT'S WITHIN THE SAME RULES WHICH APPLY TO THE REST OF US.

Otherwise, we may as well erect a 200' gorilla balloon at every car dealership, and I should be allowed to put up a 200' fork with a meaball on top and claim it's dedicated to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Pheonix...I do Believe He died for my sins and that with his blood we were all saved...But I Believe that his teachings and not the torture device they hung him on is what should be remembered.