The church where George Washington worshipped is removing a plaque honouring the memory of America’s first president in the latest example of the way historic monuments are influencing contemporary politics.
Officers at Christ Church, in Alexandria, Virginia, said it was removing the plaque for the slave-owning president along with one for a second parishioner, General Robert Lee, who rose to the head of the Confederate army during the Civil War.
“The Vestry has unanimously decided that the plaques create a distraction in our worship space and may create an obstacle to our identity as a welcoming church, and an impediment to our growth and to full community with our neighbours,” church officers said in a letter to the congregation following a month-long consultation period.
Washington was one of the congregation’s founding members in 1773, paying for pew number five, while General Lee’s daughter left the church $10,000 in her will.
I’d call it awful liberal hate of country shining through.
Looks more like a local decision made by the local leaders of the church. An on the ground example of freedom of religion. Democracy with no outside interference.
Nord,
Looks like liberal “Christians” rejecting their christianity and the great blessing of this country….hate.
Some pretty big assumptions on your part. How do you know they are “liberal” ? Ever meet any of the folks involved?
This is just another example of you wanting to force your world view on the freedom of others. And you always claiming that freedom of religion is being infringed upon by others, now you want to do it… So many hypocrites, so little time.
Never met a conservative that hated Gorge Washington enough to tear down his monuments. Censorship and tearing down monuments is exclusively the dark age nonsense of liberalism.
k:
You mean George Washington? You are just taking jibberish. You don’t know if those folks are liberal, conservative or martian. You demand protection for your brand of religion, yet condemn theirs. Just another example of your intolerance.
“Censorship and tearing down monuments is exclusively the dark age nonsense of liberalism.”
Liberal agitators embedded within the US 3rd Army violently censor a cultural monument near Nuremburg, 1945
Shucks, botched the image address –
Fixed.
Major,
So you are implying America is the enemy and it’s monuments and history need to be torn down?
Figures.
From what I read, the individual plaques were placed on left and right side of the alter and are being moved to a new location on the premises.
No, Kevin, I’m saying that you use hyperbole about as well as you use any other rhetorical device. That is to say, terribly.
Major,
I know, I am “terrible” …being against the unholy cause of hate America liberalism.
k:
In your context, define “unholy”. And how can a self-proclaimed religious person like yourself “hate” anything?
Nord,
Christianity demands you discern right and wrong in action all the time. Romans 12:9 “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” If you are viewing the world through insincere love and clinging to evil…that is where you go wrong.
I’m saying disrespecting this fine country is evil.
k:
But not everyone is a christian, or even a christian of your ilk. And the bible doesn’t mean much to the majority of the world’s population. Once again you are trying to force your narrow world view down the throats of others.
Nord,
If you want to go through life as godless, unrepentant, and embracing of your depravity, your choice. Just don’t drag down the country, it’s monuments, and its history with you.