WATCH: Rioters In California Tear Down Religious Statue Of Father Junipero Serra

[Gnarwhal]

I'm so tired of our (Catholics/conservatives) inaction over this. It's like we're letting these demons come into our house and rape our families and doing nothing about it but impotently watch.

Rioters in California destroyed a statue of Father Junipero Serra (not the same one featured in the photo above) on Friday at Golden Gate Park, which comes as far-left activists have engaged in the destruction of monuments across the U.S. for the last couple of weeks.

WATCH: Rioters In California Tear Down Religious Statue Of Father Junipero Serra

 

[Mantishand]

Statues are racist. All of them lol.

 

[Gnarwhal]

Statues are racist. All of them lol.

Isn't absurd?

 

[-57]

The reason for the riots...tearing down of statues... are not for what we've all been told....

It is a push by the globalist who are on the side of the anti-christ.

 

[Hank77]

Isn't absurd?

Do you know this priest's history? Native Americans have been asking for this statue to be removed from public space for a few years that I know of and I don't blame them. Not just this priest but the Catholic church, in general, has an appalling history with Native American people.

Calls to remove Serra statue in front of Ventura City Hall grow

 

[anna ~ grace]

Do you know this priest's history? Native Americans have been asking for this statue to be removed from public space for a few years that I know of and I don't blame them. Not just this priest but the Catholic church, in general, has an appalling history with Native American people.

Calls to remove Serra statue in front of Ventura City Hall grow

We have Native American Saints, too, and priests, and religious. Abuses happened, but so did many, many genuine conversions, vocations, and miracles, too. Everyone needs to be evangelized, Hank. Europeans needed the Gospel, too, and parts of Europe were hard to get through to.

 

[-57]

Do you know this priest's history? Native Americans have been asking for this statue to be removed from public space for a few years that I know of and I don't blame them. Not just this priest but the Catholic church, in general, has an appalling history with Native American people.

Calls to remove Serra statue in front of Ventura City Hall grow

I doubt the rioters had a clue as to who the statue was and what the historical significance was.

My question is, did they simply tear down a statue or the symbol of Christianity? The cross.

 

[Hank77]

We have Native American Saints, too, and priests, and religious. Abuses happened, but so did many, many genuine conversions, vocations, and miracles, too. Everyone needs to be evangelized, Hank. Europeans needed the Gospel, too, and parts of Europe were hard to get through to.

I agree with everything you said. But how we go about it makes a big difference.

 

[Hank77]

I doubt the rioters had a clue as to who the statue was and what the historical significance was.

My question is, did they simply tear down a statue or the symbol of Christianity? The cross.

Did you read the article, if not then don't ask me questions.

 

[Hank77]

We have Native American Saints, too, and priests, and religious. Abuses happened, but so did many, many genuine conversions, vocations, and miracles, too. Everyone needs to be evangelized, Hank. Europeans needed the Gospel, too, and parts of Europe were hard to get through to.

This man brought the Gospel to the Native people without causing harm.

David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties.
Born: April 20, 1718, Haddam
Died: October 9, 1747
Profession: Missionary
David Brainerd - Wikipedia

 

[chevyontheriver]

I'm so tired of our (Catholics/conservatives) inaction over this. It's like we're letting these demons come into our house and rape our families and doing nothing about it but impotently watch.



WATCH: Rioters In California Tear Down Religious Statue Of Father Junipero Serra

It was inevitable. The lights are going out all over the world. That they are going out too in California ain't no shock. But it is outrageous. They WILL be burning churches gleefully any day now.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Do you know this priest's history? Native Americans have been asking for this statue to be removed from public space for a few years that I know of and I don't blame them. Not just this priest but the Catholic church, in general, has an appalling history with Native American people.

I know this priest's history. The attempts to destroy his memory are shameful.

 

[Hank77]

I know this priest's history. The attempts to destroy his memory are shameful.

The Native Americans have been asking to have it Removed from the public space maybe someone should have listened.

 

[chevyontheriver]

We have Native American Saints, too, and priests, and religious. Abuses happened, but so did many, many genuine conversions, vocations, and miracles, too. Everyone needs to be evangelized, Hank. Europeans needed the Gospel, too, and parts of Europe were hard to get through to.

Serra is one of the good guys of history, as his biography by Omer Englebert shows.

If the protest was about how evil Serra was, why were the statues of Ulysses Grant and Francis Scott Key also toppled? Why was the Cervantes statue vandalized? These vandals are every bit the mob the original Vandas were who sacked Rome in 455 AD.

 

[Gnarwhal]

Do you know this priest's history? Native Americans have been asking for this statue to be removed from public space for a few years that I know of and I don't blame them. Not just this priest but the Catholic church, in general, has an appalling history with Native American people.

Calls to remove Serra statue in front of Ventura City Hall grow

If you believe that then you've bought into a lie. Saint Junípero Serra fought back against the Spanish for their mistreatment of Natives.

Serra: Protector of Native Americans - San Buenaventura Mission
Newest saint, Junipero Serra, Francis says, protected Native Americans

 

[chevyontheriver]

The Native Americans have been asking to have it Removed from the public space maybe someone should have listened.

There is a statue of Junipero Serra in the Capitol in Washington DC. Even before the city is renamed to no longer be Washington and no longer named the District of Columbia, Joe Biden will undoubtedly want to pull that one over too. And eventually all of the other statues in the capital will be vandalized too. Just because. These people are destroyers. We are on the cusp of a new dark age and it's all OK for the burners and the looters and the topplers to do their thing? Because Floyd? Because it was Juneteenth?

 

[Hank77]

There is a statue of Junipero Serra in the Capitol in Washington DC. Even before the city is renamed to no longer be Washington and no longer named the District of Columbia, Joe Biden will undoubtedly want to pull that one over too. And eventually all of the other statues in the capital will be vandalized too. Just because. These people are destroyers. We are on the cusp of a new dark age and it's all OK for the burners and the looters and the topplers to do their thing? Because Floyd? Because it was Juneteenth?

What are you dumping on me? I focused on one issue, why and where the Native Americans wanted the statue taken down in the public space.

 

[chevyontheriver]

What are you dumping on me? I focused on one issue, why and where the Native Americans wanted the statue taken down in the public space.

You dumped on Junipero Serra, who isn't here to defend himself. He's not the evil dude you seem convinced he is.

I am watching as statues of some good people are toppled in the madness of sending everything down the memory hole. And watching as their actions get approval from otherwise normal people. This is on the way to getting out of control. A vandal who topples a statue today will burn a building tomorrow and blow up city hall next week, right after they destroy the water lines. The Vandals did that in Rome in 455 AD, pulling down the aquaducts. How much of this are you willing to be an apologist for?

 

[Michie]

From CNA.

St. Junipero Serra statue torn down in San Francisco Park

 

[pdudgeon]

The revolutions that I'm acquainted with only stopped with either a terrible massacre, or with holocausts.
In both cases, innocent people were either slaughtered, or were caught in the crossfire of opposing forces.

Even peaceful revolutions end up the same way; innocent people caught between opposing forces.