Too-Catholic artwork

Apparently, a 7-foot tall, hand-carved, wooden statue of Jesus will soon be in the dumpster behind Red Bank Baptist Church in Lexington, South Carolina, because it’s too Catholic-looking for that Godly congregation.

A Baptist church in South Carolina plans to remove a hand-carved statue of Jesus Christ because some congregants believe it’s too “Catholic” for their place of worship.

The hand-carved, 7-foot (2-meter) statue and accompanying reliefs depicting scenes from Christ’s life have been displayed outside Red Bank Baptist Church in Lexington for a decade.

The artist has declined to participate in the removal or take it back, and so the statue will be destroyed.

Well … ho-hum.

If the congregants are feeling ambitious, I can suggest a few more eyesores they might want to consign to the landfill.

The garish hands that decorate Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma, for instance.

And, there remains the problem of the embarrassing stained glass images of Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. For what it’s worth, I’m prepared to write a $100 donation check right now if they’d like to replace those images with either FBC JaxWatchdog or the Wartburg Watch ladies.

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