Religious statement or just not a big enough truck?

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Today while coming back from taking my mother to the doctor, I saw a man walking up the main road on the sidewalk carrying a big white cross on wheels. I have no idea what he was doing.

There are about 300 protestant fundamentalist evangelical churches in my town, so it could be some type of church sponsored thing. If it was some sort of penance (and I know fund. prots dont believe in penance or in Lent the same way other denoms do) then why the wheels? It also didn't look that heavy. It was just a later middle age guy, in jeans, a polo shirt and a ball cap walking down the road, with the cross over his shoulder like Jesus, pulling it behind him. It had two small wheels on the bottom.

I thought for a minute that it might not fit in his truck and he had built it for a display at one of the churches, but about 80% of the male population in my town has trucks, so I'm sure he could find one to borrow that's big enough.

I have no idea what it was about.

Why do I view religion as the rabid animal in the corner...

I took this in Mexico, there is a walk there they do for penance/suffering or some jazz. I lasted about 7 hours walking and then couldn't move anymore due to the chaffing and the fact the back of my boot gave way and was scraping my heel.

When I saw this guy I actually thought "you know, it would work better with wheels". But a day later after 24 hours of walking I saw him at the end of the walk. (Nogales, Sonora - to Magdalena). Obviously you just saw a intelligent catholic.

I have no problem with religion, not even religions different than what I believe in. I have no problem with people not being religious at all. I only have a problem with people who try to force their religion on others. I also have a problem with people who can't seem to understand the simple differences between not having school faculty led prayer and kids praying on their own (the first one is illegal, the second one isn't) and the difference between telling somebody that they cant hang a Ten Commandments plaque in their courtroom and that they can't believe or follow them anymore. In the town I live in, people don't get the difference at all. They pass out Bibles in school, every court session and school event is opened by someone other than the staff there, everything closes early on Wednesday and is closed all day on Sunday so that people can go to church. I know that 99.9 % of the town is fun. prot. evang., but I think they are taking things a little too far.

As for school prayer, it's legal to pray anywhere you want, at any time. It's not legal to disrupt others to do it though. Those who want school prayer only want a specific type of school prayer. Of the Christian religion and the fund evang denominations. They would go postal if school prayer came back and a teacher led the kids in the Rosary every morning, or an Act of Contrition.

My family is the only Catholic one in this town. There isn't a Catholic church thats closer than an hour away. The whole town is only about 5 miles from one end to the other, and that's a lot of residential area too, so the guy wouldn't get very tuckered out walking across it. We are in the middle of nowhere, way off the main highway, so it's not someone passing through. I wonder what he was doing. If I find out, I'll certainly post back and let people know.

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Was it him?

Only in America.

No, this one was painted white. The cross that is. It also had no luggage on it. Nobody would come through my town on the way to anywhere either lol! We are really far off the main highway and nobody comes here unless you live here or are coming to visit someone who does.

We got one too in Auckland. I know the guy from the occupy protest. Hes an older gay guy who hits on some of the younger street living men. He preaches to them, then gets high with them, then plays hide the sausage with them

amen brother