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Does East Tennessee need another giant Christian cross?
Posted By katie allison granju
Jon Hickman (disclosure: he’s my husband) says no way:
just don’t “get” big honkin crosses. It seems that the people who pay tens of thousands of dollars to install these monstrosities where we all can see them (there are several in this area) think they’re going to help people somehow, but I can’t figure how. And there’s apparently an attempt going on to put one up near my parents’ house, so they’d see it every day on the way to work or the mall or anything. Depending on where they put it, they might be able to see it from their house:
“It’s an area that needs a cross. It’d be a shame for Knox County and the city of Knoxville not to have cross, wouldn’t it? Ain’t that what the Lord would say?” Potter asks.
I just can’t imagine what good will come of it. And no, I don’t think that God needs a big, honkin’ cross in every neighborhood. I tend to think that’s not what God would want at all; it makes me think of the wonderful David LaMotte song, “Butler Street:”
There’s a neon cross on a mountain
Saying ’sinners best beware’
That means that somebody went to the trouble
To run power way up there
These mountains speak to my spirit
I guess it kind of blows my mind
To think someone could look at that vista
And think God needs a neon sign
Feb 18th, 2008
