School bus pentagram
The mom told local media she snapped a photo of the brake light on a Durham School Services bus in Cordova.
“Anyone who fears a God, if not God and Jesus Christ, should be outraged,” said the mother, who was not identified because she is reportedly receiving death threats after sharing the photo on social media.
The mother says it’s appalling the brake lights are shaped like a pentagram.
“If you can’t put a cross on there, you can’t put a pentagram on it,” she said.
The woman pointed to Walgreen’s decision last year to remove wrapping paper from its shelves because images on the paper appeared to be those of swastikas.
“Would we allow a swastika, for instance, to be on the back of the bus?” said the mother.
One woman, who identified herself as a practicing Wiccan, looked at the photo and said it did look like a pentagram. But she says the symbol is the same for her faith as the cross is for Christians.
CNN interviewed a local Wiccan, Jo Applewhite, for their news piece on the offending brake lights. “Wiccans, we believe in God, we believe in Jesus, but we don’t call him God,”
Applewhite says before explaining multiple meanings of the pentagram. “Find out what it really means before you start getting riled up and all worked up about something.”
Another local states, “People should be upset if that is against their feelings, religions, etc.”.
Applewhite says people may be making a fuss over nothing.
“Go find out if it was intentional,” she said.
School district officials have not publicly commented on the school bus lights.
ShoeKnows points out:
Tennessee public schools are currently facing common core controversies, issues surrounding virtual education and controversy around teacher pay. Every one of these topics could use some energy and outrage from parents to get the ball rolling on solutions that benefit kids. Put the brakes on religious hysterics and focus on what children and teachers need to succeed.
What are your thoughts on the School bus pentagram? Let us know in the comment section below.
What makes someone automatically think the worst of any and every situation? That is a crock of bull malarkey! I see stars not pentagrams! That’s the ignorant mentally of sad to say people today! They think the worst first then quickly pull other ignorant people in with their idea! Now I am a FRIM TRUE BELIEVER in our LORD JESUS CHRIST but I guess I look at things with a realistic point if view!!!!!!!!
Rhonda I agree with you. This has to be the dumbest story I have seen. And I believe the reason crazy people like this lady start this stuff is because the Media give the stories credence by giving them air time.
“Religious hysterics”! That’s the common argument given by all godless, atheist, agnostic, etc,. idiots when a Christian takes a stand for God or Jesus Christ. I won’t address the clowns on the left. This comment is for Christians only. WAKE UP! If you can’t see what has happened in this country over the last fifty or so years, (ironically since Roe V Wade), then you are living in a cloud somewhere.
We as Christians have an obligation to Christ to be the salt on this earth. Salt is septic. It’s meant to purge the infection from the sore. We need to stand up and support anyone with the nerve to stand against the Evil One and his vile minions of which there are billions on this earth. We have the responsibility to announce to the world what God has said and has to say about issues like, homosexuality (an abomination) , abortion (murder), murder,(there are no differing degrees in the sight of God. Murder deserves the death penalty, period.), same sex marriage (see homosexuality above), and, the list goes on and on. We are where we are because of us, the Christians who have sheltered ourselves away from the dross of this world and hidden in our various churches.
Look what’s happening with the Muslims. We certainly aren’t responsible for their existence. Thankfully that can be laid at the feet of a disobedient Abraham of old. However, we can be held accountable for allowing them and their phony, baloney religion to become so strong and so large. We haven’t done enough to reach them about the lie they are accepting as truth.
There is so much more I could say but, I think my main point is this. We need to get to work outside of the churches and start witnessing to the non-believers and skeptics about what and in whom we believe and why. Otherwise, what happened in Paris could very well happen in yours or my home town in the very near future.
Please learn what irony is.