We
can't sandblast history! And the truism, "Those who do not remember
history are destined to repeat it," should be a sobering reminder to all
of us that we shouldn't want to sandblast history.
This sculpture, carved into Stone Mountain in Georgia, indeed represents a time, a people, who fought to maintain a system that was diabolical at its very heart. Should we remove that memory from our consciousness? Should we pretend such injustice did not exist?
If we do, we put ourselves into the category of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. If we do that, we obliterate a culpability we all have--a responsibility to keep our own minds and hearts free of prejudice against and hatred for those we perceive as 'different' from ourselves.
This sculpture, carved into Stone Mountain in Georgia, indeed represents a time, a people, who fought to maintain a system that was diabolical at its very heart. Should we remove that memory from our consciousness? Should we pretend such injustice did not exist?
If we do, we put ourselves into the category of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. If we do that, we obliterate a culpability we all have--a responsibility to keep our own minds and hearts free of prejudice against and hatred for those we perceive as 'different' from ourselves.
And as we reflect upon those times in history when man's inhumanity
against his fellow man was rampant, let us be resolute in following the
Biblical admonition that, "in Christ there is no male or female, there
is no Jew or Greek (gentile), there is no slave or free, for all are
one, all are brothers, under the blood of Jesus." Galatians 3:27, 28
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