Madison Cawthorn's mom had Bibles sealed into the walls of their home above every lightswitch.

[RandySF]

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The Hoarse Whisperer
@TheRealHoarse
Is this a thing?

Madison Cawthorn’s mom had Bibles sealed into the walls of their home above every lightswitch.

Is that… do people do that?

[DURHAM D]

1. No wonder he is so strange.

jftr - I always put a coin under the front door sill when repairing, replacing, or building new. Coin will be the year of said work.

If lucky enough to find a coin from prior installation or repair be sure to leave it. Oldest coin I have found while restoring a home was 1926.

[yardwork]

56. I never heard of that! That is cool.

[Poiuyt]

72. I built and installed a fireplace surround for a friend and put a penny behind it.

[Progressive Jones]

81. I live in a house built in 1897. I've found coins from several decades.

This place has been through a lot of renovations and changes over the years.
I replaced some windows, and found coins from 1936. Under a door sill I found a 1955 nickel. Under another door sill, I found some 1943 steel pennies.
When I tore down the old "one wagon garage", I found a treasure trove. There were license plates from the 1920's tacked to the inside of the exterior sheathing. Along the way, someone covered the interior walls of the garage with house sheathing planks with tar paper underneath. They used newspapers and rags for insulation. There were newspapers from 1929 and 1930. I also found $200 in cash, 1920's bills, in a cigar box inside the wall, behind a hatch of sorts. Along with that there was a cigar box filled with actual cigars.

[DURHAM D]

82. That is so cool.

I love it when a home tells a story.

[Solly Mack]

2. Electricity is the devil's work!

[TheBlackAdder]

77. If I were a bible publisher, I would be playing on these fools with 12-pack home lightswitch sets.

[Solly Mack]

78. I can come up with all kinds of ideas to make money off the, uh, impressionable

but it would be unethical.

I'm a sick person.

[TheBlackAdder]

80. That's the problem, we have morals.

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Christians who outwardly profess their piety or wear crosses and other religious symbols do so not to present Christ to others, they do so to pre-sell others that they are Christians because their words and actions can not and will not do it. Those doing so reveal themselves to be hypocrites. The larger the cross, the more hypocritical they are.

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[Deuxcents]

3. Call Svengoolie

He’ll check it out

[Blue Owl]

4. Careful, that's a load-bearing Bible....

[BeckyDem]

62. lol +1

[liberalla]

5. I've never heard of this. Very strange.

[haele]

6. Three words - Stephan King Novel

Sounds like the introduction or explanation for the serial killer/demon possessed antagonist in a Stephan King Novel.

"Mads rolled down the hallway of his childhood home, fingers tingling as they brushed over the burnt squares in the walls above the light switches and wall outlets where his mother had furtively hidden small versions of a dollar store New Testament in the vain hope of protecting her family and home. He stopped at the door of the kitchen, grinning as he saw the gaunt husk sitting
quietly and blankly on a stool at the end of the kitchen counter, waiting for his words to re-animate her silence, for her to be His Mom again for as long as he felt the need her to be."

Haele

[LiberatedUSA]

15. Stephen King popped into my head to.

Some crazy lady yelling at her kid “Sinner!!! Get on your knees and PRAY!!!!”

He should get started on a new book with this.

[TheRealNorth]

23. yeah

I have heard of crucifixes being hanged on walls, but not Bibles inside the walls.

[dchill]

19. Something pig's blood... John Travolta... Something something..

[Ocelot II]

7. That's . . . different.

It didn't seem to do her nasty, creepy son any good.

[milestogo]

44. Well maybe he would have been even worse without Bibles in the walls.

[yardwork]

57. There's no way to know, right?!

[FireUpChips10]

8. I'm a Christian and I've never heard of this.

It's hard to read and follow the Bible when it's in the wall like that.

Not that following the Bible is a priority for Cawthorn.

[tanyev]

54. Ditto. My dad was a pastor and I was active in our denomination for many decades.

Never, ever heard of this.

[3Hotdogs]

9. What I get out of that, Madison's behavior is not an act.

He really is that fucked up.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

32. Bingo!

[3Hotdogs]

47. I used to go with the thought was 70% of the bullshit these Repuke politicians pull was acting.

Acting to convince the base they were on of them.

As it goes on, I believe it is theater for only 20% of them.

[Cosmocat]

51. They crossed the threadshold where they drank so much of their own kool aid

a LONG time ago.

Maybe early in the 90s, so a guy like Rick Santorum knows he is full of shit and a scumbag, he just doesn't care.

But, by the time W was elected pretty much all of them had come to believe that the evil liberal boogyman was the greatest threat to life on earth, and they, as true patriots and the best of the best christians, were justified in whatever they said or did, because they were warriors in the epic battle of good vs evil.

To people so inclined to be sucked into it, "conservatism" is a good gig.

You are wonderful and embodiment of what god and the founding fathers intended, while also a victim to the vile actions of the liberals.

[oswaldactedalone]

55. Nailed it

[machoneman]

66. Hah! My GF just told me yesterday her family thinks I'm perfect save for the fact I'm a Democrat!

Odd that her ultra right wing, Trump-loving siblings who also are ultra conservative Catholics (Latin Mass and all that)
would say such a thing to her, but not me. I can easily put up with that but it does gall me that they think that way.

By George, if I were a Republican all would be good. Jeesh!

[Kali]

10. did the light switches look like this?

[spooky3]

11. OMG, my mother would have bought those if she had seen them.

Her house was filled with stuff like that.

[Polybius]

43. She wouldn't have noticed where the "on off" switch part was?

Did you notice?

[3Hotdogs]

48. What? Wouldn't you expect Jesus's Little Soldier to be at attention? Surrounded by kids.

Inspiration for today's priests?

[spooky3]

53. No, I didn't :-). I was focused on the kids who

were floating above the ground, and the yukkiness of the artwork.

[yardwork]

58. Maybe they're dead and rising to heaven?

[EarnestPutz]

12. Switch wouldn't be quite so disturbing in the "off" position.

[highplainsdem]

13. LOL!

[dchill]

20. Actually, it wood.

[NutmegYankee]

38. Stiff competition in this thread.

[BigmanPigman]

25. I have a similar light switch of Michelangelo's The David.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

27. Do these people even have a clue?

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

33. ♬ Jesus love the little children.. ♬

[milestogo]

45. I lived in an old house that had a light switch cover like that.

One day it dawned on me that I was turning Jesus on.

[machoneman]

67. Ha! Now that's funny!

[genxlib]

71. I am opposed to the term LOL

As an overused expression

But damn that sent me into an uncontrollable fit of laughter.

[highplainsdem]

14. I'd guess she thought the Bibles provided spiritual protection, and she put small Bibles inside

walls after removing the switchplate, then had them sealed in place inside the wall with drywall. Simpler than cutting holes in the walls elsewhere.

Still crazy AF.

[kysrsoze]

16. Now we know why he obviously never read them.

[struggle4progress]

17. "My weird story about how I met my wife in Russia are getting way too much attention

now that we're getting a divorce: we need something to distract everybody!"

[hlthe2b]

40. Yup and many fall for it every time.

[Initech]

18. That is some serious next level crazy.

[vlyons]

21. Guess she thought it was the path to enlightenment

Om mani padme hum

[Gore1FL]

22. The saddest part is...

...this is the most normal thing about Madison Cawthorne.

[MustLoveBeagles]

24. Strange but it explains a lot.

[Nululu]

26. The electricity told her so.

So sad.

[alphafemale]

28. I have a light switch with a Jesus image with a strategic placement of the knob

Does that count?

[Tanuki]

29. Some context...the remodeling took place during the period when he was

in the hospital following the car crash that left him paralyzed. It was featured in this story in their local paper, with photos:

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/life/home-garden/2018/10/11/home-week-accessible-but-charming-flat-rock-cottage/1410288002/


I hate Madison Cawthorn as much as anyone else does, but I have worked with patients and their families following traumatic injuries and illnesses and have to cut people some slack for how they get through crisis and grief. And while I have never heard of anyone sealing up bibles in the wall as they did, is it really all that different from having a mezuzah?

[Meowmee]

31. If you sealed them inside drywall maybe but otherwise no imo

[obamanut2012]

34. This is nothing like a mezzuzah

[kcr]

76. Yes, it really is different. n/t

[Meowmee]

30. If true wtf 🙀

Sounds like something out of EAP

[malaise]

35. The fruit (cake) never falls

Far from the tree- that is all.😂😂

[druidity33]

36. Anything taken out of context...

is more likely to be misunderstood. I can't stand the guy and he should get booted, but it sounds like his parents did this renovation while he was in the Hospital recovering, they hoped. They knew he would be wheelchair bound, but weren't sure he'd survive. I can understand this.

"In this house, too, are some added blessings. Inside the walls primarily over light switches are several Bibles placed during renovations and notes from individuals who worked on the house during the renovations. Scriptures add decorative touches throughout the home. In the renovated upstairs shower, Psalms 30:5, “Joy comes in the morning,” is on the shower wall greeting Roger and Priscilla each morning, reminding them of their journey and how God has blessed them, she said.

“He was in ICU five weeks dying,” Priscilla said of her son. “He would always say ‘What time is it?’ He thought if he could make it to daylight, he would live another day and that is where we adopted that verse."

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/life/home-garden/2018/10/11/home-week-accessible-but-charming-flat-rock-cottage/1410288002/

[hlthe2b]

39. An accident he has lied about repeatedlyincluding claiming the friend who saved him did the opposite

It is possible he became an all-around asshole independent of any home environmental upbringing effect, granted. Possible, but not likely. Totally homeschooled growing up, I'd be hard-pressed not to believe there were "issues."

[druidity33]

41. I'm not Christian and

i couldn't care less about Madison Cawthorne. He's slime. He likely deserves prison time. But what i can understand is a mother acting out of desperation and grief and faith when she thought her son's life hung in the balance. People do weird things when they're frightened and desperate.

[hlthe2b]

42. and Madison Cawthorne is exploiting the sympathy from this to bamboozle to the detriment of all.

Not to mention the not-so-subtle attempt to distract the public's attention from everything else he is doing right now (and that coming out of his past misdeeds). Not buying it. And I certainly won't let it distract me.

[Mr.Bill]

73. He uses his disability to shield himself

from the repercussions of being a complete asshole. I have no use and no sympathy for people like him.

[hlthe2b]

37. Given how warped he is, I have to wonder what ELSE might be sealed in those walls.

Ok...

[panader0]

46. Silly woman. She got it right with the light switches, but

she forgot to do the outlets. Those are even more in need of Bibles. Especially the four plug ones.
And the GFI's!

[Vinca]

49. Ha! When we were renovating a house all I remember finding were some beer cans in the wall.

[Liberal In Texas]

52. Me too. Electrician was putting in 220 line for my PHEV charger and we found a stash of

old Pearl Beer cans in an upper space between the garage and the house. Really old cans, I think they're made out of steel. I've had the house over 20 years so they were left there awhile ago.

[Chellee]

74. I found a four inch deep pile of used razor blades in the wall of my bathroom.

The medicine cabinet had a slot in the back wall for people to slip the old blades in and they just fell to the bottom of the wall. The house was built in the 1880's, but I think the medicine cabinet was put in in the 1920's. We had a problem with the sink plumbing in the 1990's. I have no idea how long people were dropping razor blades inside my wall, but decades, probably.

[Vinca]

75. Our house was built in the late 1700's and I've been hoping to find at least one lousy coin

or bottle or artifact of some kind. All I got were beer cans in a 1960's era addition. At least your razor blades were "antique-ish". LOL.

[Walleye]

50. But did she raise him to be a monster?

I think most homeschooling is so parents won’t have to send their kids to school with those “other” kind of children

[hatrack]

59. Hey now! Did Jesus say anything about electrical codes? Don't THINK so!!!

This looks like a drywall job by . . . Satan!!!

[MineralMan]

60. "Let There Be Light," I think.

Give the deity credit every time you turn on the light? Pretty weird.

[hlthe2b]

61. As long as it doesn't short out and burn the house down...That would be a LOT of light.

[MineralMan]

63. Well, if the wiring is installed properly, there's not much chance of that.

Besides, have you ever tried to burn a book? They make terrible firewood. It's hard to burn books.

Anyhow, I'm just guessing at what might have prompted someone to do such a thing. That was all I could come up with.

[HagathaCrispy]

64. Asheville desperately needs a new Congress person!

Asheville needs to get a new congressman! Unfortunately can't compete with the surrounding areas.

[gopiscrap]

83. welcome to DU

[3catwoman3]

84. I totally LOVE your screen name!

Welcome aboard .

[Takket]

65. I'm sure the zealotry goes a lot deeper than that

To produce a mind as warped and depraved as his

[Mr. Ected]

68. A book that cannot be read is not a book, it's wall decoration

A representative that does not represent is not a representative, it's a Republican.

[Maeve]

69. And as a hidden one, it is a magic talisman

I think the Bible has a few things to say about relying on magic...at least, in the Old Testament...

[FSogol]

79. And sealed in a wall, it become insulation. Fiberglass board insulation would have protected

them better.

[rockfordfile]

70. If true, then no wonder he's a nutcase