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The Monument Debate

11/10/2017

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Before I get started, let me preface my remarks with Proverbs 15:28:
                               "The heart of the righteous studies how to answer,
                                     But the mouth of the wicked pours forth evil."

I read that this morning and it stuck with me. I want to be the righteous man (or woman) who studies how to answer. I may be a "Johnny come lately" to this whole Confederate Monument Removal debate, but I wanted to speak...even if this ends up just being an exercise is writing and logical thinking for myself.

First off, I have not been following the issue closely--mainly because it makes me angry. I have been aware of it and ground my teeth, but I haven't expended as much energy on it as I might have in the past because it does no one any good for me to be irritable over something I have no control over. 

At any rate, some dear friends brought the subject up after "Messiah" practice earlier this week and I shot off with something along the lines of this is being used as a "distraction from the real issues". Then I realized with almost a sense of panic that while I knew exactly what I was talking about, I could not call it up much less articulate it! (And that, my friend, is one reason I don't do YouTube rant videos. I have this wonderful ability to totally lose my brain even on subjects I am quite capable in.)

Somehow, during my Bible reading out of Proverbs this morning, it hit me, that elusive "it" that the hydraulic door in my mind had slammed shut on, leaving me stranded without the key to open the door again. Yes, it is a distraction, but it's more than just a distraction by the Left from their socialistic, Marxist, statist bent and working. It's an attempt (and often a successful attempt) to manipulate public sentiment and thinking. This is why it is so important to learn how to think. To study history...one thing which they faithfully try to rewrite and destroy, because, as one of the young men pointed out, "If we don't know our history, we are doomed to repeat it." YES and EXACTLY.

The War for Southern Independence was fought, not over slavery (irregardless of how much it may have played some political part in the war), but over the exact same principles that led the Colonies to declare their independence from Great Britain and parliament. Those principles are the SAME ONES still under attack today by the Left--the Statists. 

Furthermore, the principles that the South fought for--that her forefathers in the Thirteen Colonies fought for--are based firmly on the Word of God. This is the real issue  behind the anti-Confederate hate that has spilled over to the point that people with false guilt tear down statues of God-honoring men who also happened to be military geniuses. 

The ungodly have, and always will, hate true law and order. Even if they are "law-abiding" citizens and for the most part prefer to live in a nation that has good laws, at their heart they still hate God and thus His law (upon which all true law and order are founded).

So yes, the tearing down of monuments makes my heart cry out. It angers me that my heroes are dishonored, my homeland abused and scarred.

But it also leaves me wondering, "How stupid can we, the people of America, be?" The liberal media (and whoever they are controlled by) have been manipulating the facts and the arguments for DECADES now. When do we shake ourselves like wet dogs and sit up and say, "I am actually going to think about these issues"? When do we, Conservatives, Christians...when do we stop letting them control the narrative? 

I pray God that MY generation wakes up. That MY generation will not be weak-kneed and hand their history to the trash bins. That MY generation will be given life by the Spirit and face the opposition like David against Goliath: "Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”" (I Samuel 17:45-47)

This is not arrogance but humble reliance on God for HIS almighty justice. 

My friends...the monument debate is important because history is important because TRUTH is important. It is more important than a statue...but when one removes visible reminders of truth (you know, something that may spark an interest in a passerby to look beyond what they've been told), then statues of long-dead men take on more significance. 

We are at this point because past generations played the weakling. Have failed to stand firm on truth. It's a practical outworking of the theology and philosophy of the day. And while angering, it is also saddening and should cause us to turn more earnestly to the Almighty in prayer for our fellow countrymen. 

Fools seek to destroy their history. Wise men seek to learn from their history. God willing, let us seek to be wise men--not only for our own good, but for His glory.

      Racheal

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Laurie
11/11/2017 03:31:05 pm

My dear Racheal, I am truly sorry to be lumped in with all those godless liberals, but I respectfully disagree with the premise of your ideas. I, who grew up in conservative southern Christianity, in the 70's was taught that the damn Yankees were wrong. Fortunately, as I've grown and learned and read, history does prove that the right to own slaves was at the heart of the civil war. That being said, the statues of these heroes we're for the most part built in the early part of the 20th century during the Jim Crow era. This is the period when white supremacists ran the South, and they were trying to keep blacks "in their place". I was raised with the Hollywood fairytale of "Gone with the wind" version of the Confederacy, but I do hope that you and"your generation" will one day get over that and face the true history of slavery and the need for it's abolition. By the way, the revolt of the South from the union, was a declaration of war against the USA, not a struggle for Independence from another country.

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Racheal
11/16/2017 11:08:28 am

Thanks for your comment, Aunt Laurie. I know there are different and sincere views on this; if I'm wrong, I hope the Lord convicts me of it.

While I do not intend to debate, I would like to respond with a counter thought to two of your points.

First about the era in which the statues were built--by the early 20th century the South had finally begun to recover financially enough from the devastation wrought by the North to be able to afford to build monuments. Is there some correlation between monuments and Jim Crow laws (which I agree were wrong)? I don't know, though I actually doubt it. Just offering an idea that crossed my mind.

Secondly, the South did not see herself as revolting or rebelling against the Union. They saw themselves as seceding, or removing themselves by lawful means, from the Union and banding themselves together into a separate nation. I have recently realized that many people think that the Confederates were trying to overthrow the Federal Government. They were not. If they were, they had several opportunities to sweep into DC and crush the Union government and they did not do so because their intent was simply to be separate. Which brings me back to my connection to the War of 1776--the principles which I mentioned are enshrined in the Declaration of Independence: "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [the inablienable Rights], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." The southern states no longer wished to be joined to the Union, so rather they removed themselves via legal means--their legislatures. The Union therefore (irregardless of any pro- or anti-slavery sentiment) was the aggressor and in the wrong.




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Hope
11/20/2017 08:37:05 am

I am a life long Southerner, and there are so many things that are wonderful about this region, but the glorification of the Confederacy is not one of them.
Have you studied the Confederate Constitution? The Confederate Constitution made it illegal to ever end slavery. This is not godly and stands as a large difference between the our Country and the Confederacy. The Cornerstone Speech shows that the Cornerstone of the Confederacy was not God or the Bible, but slavery.
"Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
The reason God let the Confederacy fail is because it was an ungodly institute whose foundation was treating one a group of people made in HIS image as less than white people.
For a country that was supposed to be built on state rights, the Confederate Constitution also restricts state rights when it comes to slavery. No state could decide on their own to get rid of slavery or protect slaves that escape there from their owners.
We need to remember history, but in the correct context. We do not need to glorify a failed country whose foundation wasn't God and who wanted to keep black people enslaved forever.

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