OK. Is Florida the only sane place left in the country?
Teachers at a public school in Florida have the right to make their parking space their own. Well, this one teacher had the words “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Here’s a pic:
This, being the 21st century in a country going full on supernova, ignited a controversy because some nut job can’t stand the sight of the cross.
The woman who freaked out over the cross, obviously knew she needed something a little more dramatic than the fact that she hates Christians so she said it’s because of the holocaust.
I’m a little unclear how the cross and the holocaust are connected but she seems quite dramatic about the whole thing.
The Blaze: Bible verse painted on a teacher’s parking space at a Florida public high school has angered a fellow staff member — so much so that instructional assistant Marina Gentilesco told WFLA-TV she feels as though the verse is “attacking” her.
What are the details?
Gentilesco — who works at Wiregrass Ranch High School in Wesley Chapel about about a half hour north of Tampa — told the station she grew up hearing stories about her parents in the Holocaust.
That’s why passing by the parking space — adorned with the words from Philippians 4:13 in the New Testament: “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me” — every school day angers her so, WFLA said.
“I feel like it’s attacking me as a Jew,” Gentilesco told the station, adding that “it brings me to the verge of tears, because it brings me back to the 6 million that perished. Six million perished because of our faith — because we’re Jews.”
She also told WFLA “they survived — we didn’t.”
Gentilesco added to the station that she wouldn’t mind the verse in a place like a church — but that letting it be on school grounds is going too far.
“You put it on a state-funded property, I’m not OK with it,” she told WFLA.
Well, the good news is that the school district is actually siding with the Christian woman, not the woman who acts like a vampire screeching at the sight of the cross.
It’s getting to seem like the world is a vampire that rejects and reels at the sight of the cross. Hmmm…that’s probably not a good thing.
Say, how’s that new evangelization coming?
November 14, 2022 at 10:42 am
My first thought, upon looking at the photo, was “where is the cross?”. I don’t see it in the picture. Secondly, the lady needs to be told accurate history. Many Catholics and other Christians also died along side the Jewish people. Many, remember, including St Maximillan, even died FOR Jewish people.
How horrible it must be in her mind to feel that all the crap is hers. I dare say as many people are hurt by attitudes such as hers as she is.
Pray, pray and pray more for all of us, but specially folks like this lady! Lord open their eyes!
Have a blessed day!
November 14, 2022 at 11:58 am
“And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.”
OK, so the employee issuing the complaint is merely a drama queen. That said, some aspects of this story should make us a bit uncomfortable.
* Letting teachers “personalize” their parking spaces is just asking for trouble.
* It is always a bit iffy to make a display like this. Is the point to draw attention to God, or to oneself?
* Does it really show proper respect for Scripture to put it on a surface meant to be walked on and driven on?
November 14, 2022 at 12:11 pm
You make a good point or two. Regarding #2, I would say that my wife has several scripture passages in her classroom. Its a stressful job and teachers need inspiration and thankfully many find it first in Jesus.
November 14, 2022 at 1:20 pm
It’s a tough balance: on the one hand, not drawing attention to oneself, and on the other, not being ashamed of Christ.
November 14, 2022 at 12:09 pm
Im no historian, but I dont think Hitler was Christian. He held some self-made belief that was largely pagan, Teutonic and ..other? Didnt nearly 0.5 to 1 million Catholics and other Christians also die with the Jewish people in the holocaust? Didnt Catholics and the Vatican also give sanctuary to Jews?
Seems like a brief history lesson would help channel this ladies misdirected fears.
November 14, 2022 at 1:23 pm
Hitler was Catholic by virtue of his baptism, but he was an apostate. Fr. Gabriele Amorth was convinced that Hitler had consecrated himself to Satan.
November 14, 2022 at 1:30 pm
To please the Jew he should paint Matthew 15:26 there instead. Or would even waking people up to the fact that Jesus is a Jewish racist and should not be worshipped annoy the Jew?
November 14, 2022 at 4:32 pm
Did you get your Covid shot? Would explain much.
November 15, 2022 at 3:06 am
They were born to whine.
Any excuse will do.