removal of monuments from government property
 

So with the removal of the ten commandments monument from a government property.

And the removal of the confederate flag about to happen because it reminds people of a time of hate and slavery.

The topic of the monument to honor slaves that is on the backside of the state house where the confederate flag is to be removed, has now come up that, that monument should be removed as well.


Thoughts?

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Might as well tear down museums and burn the history books while we're at it.

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Thats is pretty much how I feel about it.

I live in the oldest inland city in south carolina. There was Charlestown then camden.

And with in two miles of my house there are probably 30 monuments to history, all at governments run parks.
most of which is from the civil war since several battles took place here as well as revolutionary monuments.

Cornwallis' s house that he used as his head quarters is even in this town and they do reenactments every year there. A house the Lincoln's sister owned is in this town.

I can see this getting ugly real quick, where is the line going to be drawn. No matter what we do you can't please everyone.

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Im really surprised dollar bills still say In God we Trust. No other comments.

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As long as we (meaning the government, politicians, media, and general public) keep giving in to those who are continually offended, they'll just keep coming up with more and more absurd things to get offended about. It'll never be enough, they'll always want more. As the old saying goes, "Give an inch and they'll take a mile."

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We are witnessing the "white washing" and "sanitization" of America. This is only the start.

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So the consensus for those participating in this thread so far is a dislike of what is happening with the removal of monuments from government buildings.

If you'd rather have these items stay, would you be okay with things being added? What if some Buddhist group did something noteworthy for a state. Would it be okay then to put a Buddha statue in a government building?

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No words describe how rediculous ^^^ this ^^^ is.

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As I recall, the founding fathers of this country left England because of the tyrannical rule of the King. A king which was being heavily influenced by the church.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." means a) the government can't prohibited the the practice of religion. And b) it may not promote any one specific religion. This country was build on a foundation of religious freedom, we are not to be governed by one.

Having a giant 10 commandments monument at the capitol sure feels an awful lot like the government endorsing one specific religion.

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I can agree with that.

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What is it about it that's ridiculous?

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I have thought about this actually. And since the removal of the flag which is on the premise of it being a reminder of time of hate and is offensive.

I can see why the statue is being discussed to be removed as its a reminder of the same thing.

However I also thought maybe to ease those that dont want the flag removed to have a confederate military statue placed next to to the one about slavery.

Or just move the one about slavery to another park as that's more appropriate.

Leave the government buildings plain so they can just focus on government. And make parks the place to do the remembering

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They just finished making our money look the same as most third world countries.

It'll happen, but might take a bit since they just redid all the bills not to long ago.

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I think we should ban and remove everything, there's nothing else going on in the world right now, seems like a good time.

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How do our bills look like 3rd world countries lol...

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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/...-monument.html
The law was very clear on the fact that it should be removed. this is oklahomas law.

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Well buddhism is one thing. But would you agree with putting a statue of Satan, for the satanic churches? Or how about a monument to Xenu, the overlord in scientologies book?

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How about the fact that this nation was built on Christian values which does no one any harm. Or that fact that people want to come to America because of what its stands for, but then want to change it into where they came from.

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Did you really just say Christian Values does no one any harm... History tends to disagree with you completely.