re: Armenia is building the largest statue of Jesus Christ in the world

No one talks about the Armenian Genocide

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I wonder if Jesus would have preferred that they spend the money used on that to feed poor people or some shite like that

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Poor are better fed than lower middle class. Rarely see a skinny person on food stamps. Meanwhile my church is constantly asking for food donations and running about giving away food and supplies to people who are probably already getting free food from the government.

It’s the lower middle class that actually need help, but they get zero. The poor have sympathetic people lining-up to help. If you work, you’re disqualified. If you do nothing, everyone lines up to help.

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I wonder if Jesus would have preferred that they spend the money used on that to feed poor people or some shite like that

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"But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, *said, “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?” John 12:4-6 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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Christ of the Ozarks

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ole babyarms?

Armenians are based AF

(TLDR)

When I worked in Yerevan, Armenia back in 2004, the group I was working with took me outside the city on a Saturday afternoon to a solid granite mound surrounded by sand & dirt plains. No structures were in sight.

They walked me to what appeared to be a hole in the ground, maybe a water well carved out of the rock, I thought.

As I stood over the hole it became apparent it had a series of carved steps going down into the solid rock..

Before I started to walk down the steps my host asked me to remove my hat (LSU Baseball, of course!) and my shoes because, as she explained to me, we were about to enter the first Christian church in the world.

It dated to 305 AD and was excavated from the granite by early Christian disciples, including one who had made a pilgrimage from the Holy Land to spread the Word and who later became known as Saint Gregory the Illuminator.

We walked down the steps and the room, which they called a church, was about the size of an American home's bedroom closet... maybe 40 sq. feet.

From floor to ceiling the height of the room was about 5'6" high. I had to stand bending over when I stood.

Benches were carved in the solid rock around the perimeter of the room. The benches could seat maybe 12-14 people.

A cross was etched into the wall in the front of the room which served as the speaker's place to stand facing the rest of the room.

There was a small hole in the rear of the room where the mound of granite above the room tapered down the hill. It was about one square foot in size to provide for a bit of ventilation for the worshipers.

My hosts told me this room served as St. Gregory's base for the few Christians in Armenia at that time.

He had performed a miracle by praying over the Armenian king's very sick son who was about to die from his illness.

The son recovered which caused the king to proclaim that all of his kingdom would now become Christian, making Armenia the world's first Christian nation.

I'm not very religious but for those 15 minutes or so that I sat on a rock bench on the side of the room, I got emotional and had tears rolling down my cheeks. I was not boo-hooing, just tears, like the proverbial onion was being cut near me.

It was a solemn feeling and at the same time it was comforting and peaceful.

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Now do the Vatican.

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I feel the same way about it.

Oh Lawd