So, has anyone ever noticed those GIANT random crosses along the highways of the US, not affiliated with a church or business, just standing in a field next to the highway? Does the person who erected this monstrosity think that the bigger the cross the more likely it is they will go to heaven???? I just don’t get it!
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Have you seen the one as you approach Effingham, IL from the East? (Good “start” for the name of a town, eh?j ?
Santanaman9
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Dec 1, 2018
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No, haven’t been that way. But if I do go that way, I’m sure it would “scream” at me.
I may be wrong, but I think they were first started about 25 years or so ago by a business man who put them up mainly in the South and midwest. He put three crosses up on private property, no tax money involved. He supposedly ran out of money and many deteriorated or were removed but, like all things religion, others have taken over his idea.
yamaha45701
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Dec 1, 2018
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Hopefully it is in preparation for the coming martian invasions and is their equivalent of "Attack here for there be only Morons."
LenHazell53
Level 9
Dec 1, 2018
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HA!!! Hadn’t thought of that!
Generally I understand them to mark the place where someone died in an accident or collision of some kind. It is a form of memorial. It means something to someone, and it's their business, not mine.
mordant
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Dec 1, 2018
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No, these are not memorials. I know what those are.
These aren’t the small white crosses right next to the road. These are towering crosses, some made from girders, farther off the road. And yes it is my business and causes me to wonder what the purpose of them are.
@Opinionated sounds like an eyesore. I’ve just seen the small ones you mentioned...thankfully
@Opinionated Oh, THOSE. Yeah we have one not far from us, up on a hilltop. That's more obnoxious of course but to the extent society doesn't deem it an eyesore, it's within the rights of the property owner. Some fine day a cross on a mountainside will be in as bad a taste as a phallus on a mountainside, which is to say, social pressure and possibly legal pressure will prevent such eyesores.
@Marcie1974 I know of at least two huge crosses in Southeast Kansas that are for teens that died in accidents.
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