Which is worse? The Taliban removing Buddha -or- Duke University removing Robert E. Lee?
Both Duke and the Taliban committed the same acts of censoring history and both actions are based on hatred. In one case, the case of the Taliban, it is the result of religious fervor and in the other, Duke, a racist fever among academics who may be be among the least informed in our society.....but who feel they have a bully pulpit in the Duke Chapel as though they can wield a visual scalpel and make important personages of the past, "disappear."
Truly, this removal is an act of reprehensible academic vandalism and misplaced vigilantism.
The Lee statue was removed in the dark of the night, at a time when other thieves and vandals are also active.
Do any of you who are BCC'd have a list of Duke alumni donors or know where I can obtain it? Also, please place this information on your Facebook pages to expose these Duke elites people for the frauds and fakes they are.
-J
Both Duke and the Taliban committed the same acts of censoring history and both actions are based on hatred. In one case, the case of the Taliban, it is the result of religious fervor and in the other, Duke, a racist fever among academics who may be be among the least informed in our society.....but who feel they have a bully pulpit in the Duke Chapel as though they can wield a visual scalpel and make important personages of the past, "disappear."
Truly, this removal is an act of reprehensible academic vandalism and misplaced vigilantism.
The Lee statue was removed in the dark of the night, at a time when other thieves and vandals are also active.
Do any of you who are BCC'd have a list of Duke alumni donors or know where I can obtain it? Also, please place this information on your Facebook pages to expose these Duke elites people for the frauds and fakes they are.
-J
Pathetic. Maybe we should rename that fabled "Methodist" university "Puke" and re-designate their mascot: "The Surrender Monkey"!
ReplyDelete"Puke" and re-designate their mascot: "The Surrender Monkey"!
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"Methodist university", huh? Delving into another area of PC orthodoxy, what would they think of the founder of the Methodist Church commenting on Islam, George W. Bush's and Barack Obama's "religion of peace"?
ReplyDelete“Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations vanished from the earth ! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind.” (John Wesley)
Hadn't heard the quote before and right on.
DeleteI'm sure Duke Divinity School ( I guess there's one) or Vanderbilt Divinity School as nearby me in Nashville where many Methodist clergy are "educated" would be aghast, disavow him and have his name removed from wherever it may be. I was raised in and attended a Methodist Church until my early twenties, but now am an "unchurched" person. I am informed daily by an objective reading of the Scriptures. BTW, I was once labeled a "bibliolater" by a Vanderbilt "Sadducee" trained Methodist preacher because I considered the Bible as the written Word of God. --Ron W
ReplyDeletean "unchurched" person.
DeleteMore and more are these days.
Probably so, but the church is all of those who have been given "the faith of Jesus Christ".
DeleteJesus said, I Am the door; by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. --John 10:9
Thanks.
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