There was another anti-Semitic attack, this time against a statue of Jesus. It’s not just that they beheaded the statue for a second time, it’s that they took the head with them so it can’t be reattached:
FOX 59 – For the second time in two weeks, members of a church on the south side of Indianapolis have found their Jesus statue vandalized, giving it the appearance of being beheaded.
“It makes me sad that somebody would do something like that,” said Pastor Brad Flaskamp. “I was hoping it was just a random act to destroy it in the first place.”
That’s what the pastor and other members of Cottage Avenue Pentecostal Fellowship thought two weeks ago, the first time somebody broke the head off their concrete Jesus statue. The 5-year-old statue stands next to the front door of the church, which has stood in the 800 block of Cottage Avenue for roughly 100 years.
Two weeks ago, whoever caused the damage left the head sitting next to the statue. Church members were finally able to reattach the head on Saturday. But Sunday morning, it was broken off again. And whoever did it took the head with them.
In related news, grave stones at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis were damaged by vandals:
Vandals damaged about 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery on Monday, police say https://t.co/3Er7UHAAfz pic.twitter.com/ImmXqFiCrX
— CNN International (@cnni) February 21, 2017
It’s one thing to behead a statue of Jesus. It’s another to vandalize grave stones. It takes a special kind of hatred to desecrate the solemn place where those who we once loved are laid to rest.
I hope they catch these bigots prosecute them to the full extent of the law.