Christians always pray that people will seek the Lord and make Him part of their lives. But this isn’t exactly what we had in mind:
When Baby Jesus disappeared last year from a Nativity scene on the lawn of the Wellington, Fla., community center, village officials didn’t follow a star to locate him.
A GPS device mounted inside the life-size ceramic figurine led sheriff’s deputies to a nearby apartment, where it was found face down on the carpet. An 18-year-old woman was arrested in the theft.
Giving up on old-fashioned padlocks and trust, a number of churches, synagogues, governments and ordinary citizens are turning to technology to protect holiday displays from pranks or prejudice.
About 70 churches and synagogues eager to avoid the December police blotter jumped at a security company’s offer of free use of GPS systems and hidden cameras this month to guard their mangers and menorahs.
Every year I think about getting a fancy nativity scene for the yard, but I can’t justify the expense, and it would infuriate me to have someone steal it. But really, to have it come to this – to have to lojack the baby Jesus – that’s just ridiculous.
You know what is crazy … is that people steal them in the first place. It reminds me of the conversation I once had with someone who felt that stealing a Bible was okay because it was the Word of God and therefore God would not consider it theft. I sometimes wonder if people who steal the baby jesus don’t excuse their behavior in a similar way! LOL
I think these crimes are about harassing Christians more than stealing property. The baby Jesus alone can’t be worth all that much anyway. A church downtown where I live just lost their Jesus within the past couple of days.
On Fox News, they said that a lot of churches are starting to put GPS devices in them, or at least bolting them down.