The stupidness just keeps on keepin' on and gets more and more outrageous each time!

“Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia will take down a memorial marking the pew where [George] Washington sat with his family, saying it is not acceptable to all worshipers.”*

You know George Washington. He was the first president of the United States! 

I’ve got a different view than those Episcopalians of Christ Church in Alexandria, VA. I wouldn’t belong to such a spineless church so willing to bend to political correctness. Who knows what “unpleasantness” found in Holy Scripture they’d also be willing to “take down” so as not to offend visitors.

Further, I wouldn’t even visit such a church - to worship or as a tourist! (And I have been to that church a few times to see it just because of its famous former member! But, I won't be back, unless they revisit this dumb decision and reverse it.)

Social mores like the forcing of society to accept homosexuality and desecrating and denying our common history like this hysteria over war memorials and former presidents and reading racism and hate in every last little thing like idioms (NFL owner saying we can’t have the “inmates running the prison”, etc about his players dissing on the National Anthem by taking a knee instead of standing for it.**) are the kinds of decisive things that divide and deteriorate a once-common people until their society eventually comes completely unwound.

What got us knit back together after the American Civil War was a focus on us all being Americans again. With common heritage and common existence working towards a common future of equal opportunity, not necessarily equal outcomes.

What helped America survive the Great Depression was we were all Americans suffering together and would persevere together and proceed out of that economic Depression together into a common future Of equal opportunity, not necessarily equal outcomes.

What saw us through World War Two - a period of severe restrictions of gasoline, tire, flour and more all being rationed, of men drafted off to combat many not to return or to return maimed or otherwise scarred for life - was the belief that it was necessary for democracy and freedom equal opportunity , not necessarily equal outcomes, to be available worldwide. And that democracy would endure back home in America into the common futures of Americans. And the list goes on.

But, somewhere along the way in the years since, we’ve managed to let self-serving, divisive rabble rousers pit American against American trying to erase, revise and otherwise destroy our common history, our common bond in where we’ve been so as to prevent us from going forward together…as Americans, together, in a common future…of freedom and democracy….

So, let’s step back and take count of what they’ve done to us so far - just to mention a few things;

• They (the Democrat Party and other fosterers of the “handout mentality”) have managed to vilify the productive part of our society – businesses, business leaders, and the corporations that create jobs for which productive people work to earn money to pay their bills.
• They (Black Lives Matter, et al) have managed to vilify those who patrol our streets and cities 24/7 fighting crime – law enforcement.
• The American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the rest of their ilk has managed to vilify Christianity as an evil, hate-based religion and has managed to ban just about any use of a cross symbol in cemeteries,*** jewelry**** and the like seen in public. (Whether or not on public land or the cross memorial was paid for privately)**
• They’ve managed to convince people that our history involving the American Civil War is so heinous and oppressive as to necessitate the descecration of memorials to dead Confederate soldiers or schools named after their generals. Of course, never mind that these have stood for or been so named for nearly a century that they must be destroyed and renamed.*****

·       And it’s something new almost every day. And everytime our spineless culture “feeds the bully” and gives into this stupidness, the next demand is all the more outrageous and ridiculous than the last.

So, America, what’s next!?!? Come on, Americans! We’ve got to stand for something lest we fall for anything! It’s time to say enough of this stupidness and stand up against it.

*Aratani, Lori. “Historic Alexandria church decides to remove plaques honoring Washington, Lee.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 28 Oct. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/historic-alexandria-church-decides-to-remove-plaques-honoring-washington-lee/2017/10/28/97cb4cbc-bc1b-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.3aea46d94bc3.

**McCausl, Phil. “Most of NFL's Houston Texans Kneel During Anthem After Owner's Remark.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 29 Oct. 2017, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/most-nfl-s-houston-texans-kneel-during-anthem-after-owner-n815451.

***Starnes, Todd. “Federal court rules World War I memorial cross must be torn down.” Fox News, FOX News Network, 18 Oct. 2017, www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/10/18/federal-court-rules-world-war-memorial-cross-must-be-torn-down.html.

****Fraser, Giles. “Christians must understand that for Jews the cross is a symbol of oppression | Giles Fraser.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 25 Apr. 2014, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/25/jews-cross-symbol-of-oppression-christians.

*****Sweetman, Cassandra. “Board votes to change Oklahoma City schools named after Confederate generals.” KFOR.com, KFOR-TV, 24 Oct. 2017, kfor.com/2017/10/23/school-board-votes-to-change-schools-named-after-confederate-generals/.