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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
1. Pick your battles wisely.
2. Your religion doesn't require you to advertise on your front lawn, with a white cross. So your battle cry is unfounded and without merit.
3. As long as you don't mind people putting up Wiccan pentacles, symbols of the Satanic Church, Jewish stars, the Anarchy symbol, Muslim symbols, on THEIR front lawns, it's all good right?
4. Pick your battles wisely.
Your white cross is offensive to me, but live with it because to me, it's just not worth "doing" anything about it.
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You are exactly right. Jesus didn’t say, “If you believe in me, put a little white cross on your lawn, even if it is against the rules you signed, and then sue when you are told to take it down.” He said “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” A white cross is not “good works.” Wearing a cross is not “good works.” Good works includes kindness, generosity, forgiveness, helping those in need. Thousands in The Villages who don’t have white crosses do good works, whatever their religious beliefs. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
The person complaining is entirely free to put small or even large white cross on his or her golf cart, or a bumper sticker on his or her car, or wear clothing with crosses on it. I appreciate the regulations regarding decorations on lawns, for the reasons you say. This isn’t a matter of religious liberty. Many of my ancestors left England, or Germany, or Switzerland, or Denmark because they didn’t want to be members of the state church. We don’t have a state church. Some of them went to prison. Some were fined or even had their estates taken away. Some were Protestant. Some were Catholic. Putting a little white cross on the lawn isn’t worth fighting about so long as you can worship and believe the way you want to.