artie_fufkin wrote:

" ... the Cross Foundation that built it says that 20 million people drive past the cross each year, and that a percentage of those people will see it and become good Christians, and that makes it all worthwhile."

So, the theory is that a van full of murderers, rapists and thugs will be driving across the country, suddenly see this humungous thing "thrusting (their word, not mine) heavenward" and convert to Christianity?
Under the same rationale, the Jews will pick up a few converts from visitors to Manhattan who eat a corned beef sandwich at the Carnegie Deli.

It is kind of a waste of money.  Sort of cool tho.  Anyone who travels through there is going to take notice.

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

" ... the Cross Foundation that built it says that 20 million people drive past the cross each year, and that a percentage of those people will see it and become good Christians, and that makes it all worthwhile."

So, the theory is that a van full of murderers, rapists and thugs will be driving across the country, suddenly see this humungous thing "thrusting (their word, not mine) heavenward" and convert to Christianity?
Under the same rationale, the Jews will pick up a few converts from visitors to Manhattan who eat a corned beef sandwich at the Carnegie Deli.

This actually made me LOL. I've driven past that thing easily more than 50 times. I promise you, at no time did I ever think to myself "gee, maybe I should become a good Christian." On many occasions, however, I have wondered to myself "how much money was wasted building that stupid giant cross?"

 
Maybe a more Christian thing to do would have been to spend that money on food and shelter for homeless people.