Saturday, October 01, 2005
Sometimes It's Just Silly
Four mountaineers hauled the three-stone Buddha up the 10,800ft Pizzo Badile peak on the Italian-Swiss border to protest about melting ice-caps and a plethora of crosses dedicated to fallen climbers that have been revealed.Let's take the religiousity question out of this for a minute and consider the effectiveness of "protesting" an "eyesore" by creating another eyesore. That's not protest, that's just petulant. "Mommy, if Billy gets bubblegum, I get bubblegum too" -- "But honey, you don't like bubblegum" -- "I don't care Mommy, it has to be fair!" -- lower lip extrudes, pout begins.
"As the ice thaws there are all these crosses appearing that are really an eyesore," said Jacabo Merizzi, 46.
And don't you just love the confusion of issues here? Somehow in these poor individuals minds, Christianity and global warming are all part of a package. Don't ask me how (particularly when you consider how much time I have had to spend dissuading churches from donating mission funds to global warming causes), but there it is.
Just climb your mountains guys and be done with it!
