In modern times, the covering up of religious symbols, including The Cross, started with President Barack Obama’s hypocritical address at Gaston Hall, Georgetown University.
There was never any outcry registered by authorities who merely complied with Obama’s command for the coverup of religious symbols during his address.
“Georgetown University admitted covering over the monogram “IHS”—symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—inscribed on a pediment on the stage where Obama was speaking all because the White House had asked the university to cover up ALL signs and symbols there. Proof of the “IHS” covered up monogram was photographed by CNSNews.com, (
CFP, August 14, 2012)
Why Obama would shy away from appearing on a stage with a cross and other religious symbols in plain sight at Georgetown University in April of 2009--within three months of his inauguration--should be no big mystery.
Did Obama cave in to the fear that these long venerated Christian symbols would provoke his Muslim brothers, or does Obama regard religious symbols as too much competition?
The removal of crosses by threatened and active litigation continues as a trend after Obama’s coverup success at Gaston Hall.
And now in the midst of the ongoing VA scandal, it’s ailing vets in care at Iron Mountain, Mich. who are deprived from seeing statues of Jesus and Mary, along with a cross and altar--now hidden behind a curtain in the chapel of the VA hospital there. (
Todd Starnes, FoxNews, May 30, 2014)
“The decision to hide the religious icons came after the National Chaplain Center conducted an on-site inspection and determined the hospital’s chapel was not in compliance with government regulations.”
Guess it was only because authorities didn’t want it raining on patients that they didn’t also smash the stained glass windows in the VA hospital chapel.
Posting photographs of the hidden religious icons on the church’s Facebook page, Richard Riley, pastor of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, called the move “exceedingly disappointing”.
A rousing Amen to that, Pastor Riley.
Already shamefully deprived of medical help that never comes, ailing veterans at Iron Mountain Hospital are also deprived of any spiritual succor they may seek.
“Heaven forbid someone finds himself offended at the sight of a cross. For the record, the public affairs officer told me that 98 percent of the patients there identify as Catholic or Christian. So the curtains are for the remaining 2 percent,” Starnes wrote.
‘Neutralizing’ veterans hospitals has been government policy since 2008.
“The situation in Michigan is not unique. In April something similar took place at Fort Meade Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Fort Meade, South Dakota. There was concern over a makeover to the facility’s chapel,” Starnes wrote.
“The only exception to the policy on maintaining chapels as religiously neutral are the chapels at VA facilities which were built with permanent religious symbols in the walls or windows before the establishment of the Veterans Affairs Chaplain Service in 1945,” the policy states.
Absurdly, authorities at Iron Mountain Hospital now play ‘Peek-a-Boo Jesus’:
To comply with the government orders, Brad Nelson, a public affairs officer for the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center, told Starnes the Iron Mountain hospital decided to erect curtains.
“We put up some nice curtains,” he said. “When not being used for Bible study, prayer or services, they are closed.”
“As it now stands, whenever there’s a Christian service, Jesus is allowed to be displayed. Otherwise, he’s hidden behind the curtain.
“Pastor Riley said the decision to turn the formerly Christian chapel into a religiously neutral room is evidence of a bigger problem.
“Christianity, not only globally, but particularly in the United States, is really under attack,” he said. “Christianity is coming under some horrendous conflict from the media and to some degree from our own government.”
“It’s not the first time Veterans Affairs has been accused of stifling the Savior. Last Christmas a group of Georgia high school students were given a list of government-approved carols to sing at a VA hospital in Augusta. A VA hospital in Texas refused to accept holiday cards that included the phrase, “Merry Christmas.”
And two Baptist chaplains told Starnes they were forced out of a VA chaplaincy program when they refused to stop praying in the name of Jesus Christ. They said they were also told to stop using references to the Bible during classroom sessions.
“While certainly not new, Retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin of the Family Research Council called the hiding of Christian icons an “assault on the Christian faith.” Boykin said the VA policy on religious neutrality is evidence of what he called a “Marxist agenda.”
“Marx called religion the opiate of the masses,” he told me. “This is all part of a Marxist agenda to remove God and replace God with government – government regulation, government control, government influence. The sad fact is we are letting it happen and very few of us are protesting.”(Starnes)
Though they’ve been trying to force it on populations for centuries, the Marxist agenda will never replace God with government.
Too many people of faith believe that it is politicians like Barack Obama and not Jesus Christ who is hiding behind curtains.
Only politicians and their fawning bureaucrats play ‘Peek-a-Boo Jesus’; the unwashed masses count on Christ as their Savior.
Meanwhile, a heartfelt message to all veterans: Keep the faith!
Judi McLeod——
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-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
