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Tag: 2020-07 Monuments Project

  • The Sin of our Fathers

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    The Sin of our Fathers

    So if we are able to be tolerant of our own imperfections and those of others around us, what about the sins of “our fathers”; those sins exercised by past generations, such as the atrocities done in war, colonization, repression, slavery, etc.? “The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will…

  • No One is Perfect

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    No One is Perfect

    Should we expect those people we have memorialized to be perfect? “He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.” (Deuteronomy 32:4) The Bible states that God is perfect, and given that He created men and women in…

  • Questions about Monuments

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    Questions about Monuments

    Preamble: This is the first in a series of entries I will post over the coming weeks that continues my study into the movement to take down monuments, and change place names. The question I keep asking myself is why does it makes sense to remove some monuments from the public space? What are the…

  • Lights

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    Lights

    In a New York Times article, “Turning Off the Lights Does Save Electricity”, published February 3, 1974, the advice was to turn off your lights when not in use. Turn off lights when not needed. If all three million customers in New York City and Westchester County cut off a single 100‐watt bulb that might…

  • Benchmarks of Progress?

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    Benchmarks of Progress?

    Both George Washington, first President of the United States, and Thomas Jefferson, author of the US Constitution and third President of the United States, recognised the dilemma of slavery. “Washington conceded the system of human bondage that underpinned the economy of 18th Century Virginia was a ‘wicked, cruel and unnatural trade’.”[1] And Jefferson “A bon…