{"id":3703,"date":"2015-07-02T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2015-07-02T15:38:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T19:38:32","slug":"if-historys-not-about-us-we-dont-want-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=3703","title":{"rendered":"Making History About Our Petty Selves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Patron Saint of the Notorious<\/p><\/div>\n

In the new post-Christian Hell, statues honor our depraved selves, not the greatness of others.\u00a0 Is Susan B. Anthony an American founder or just a historical revisionist’s invention?\u00a0 What difference does it make?\u00a0 Things mean only what we’re told they should mean<\/a>, yes?<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Assembly Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet Media, a California State Assembly committee, approved Senate Joint Resolution 4, a bill endorsing the replacement of the statue of Father Junipero Serra in the National Statuary Hall Collection on Capitol Hill with a statue of astronaut Sally Ride.<\/p>\n

The bill, approved 6-0, will now be sent to the whole Assembly for final approval. The bill was barely passed<\/a> by the State Senate in April in a largely partisan vote, 22-10, as Democrats voted for it and Republicans against it. 21 votes were necessary for passage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Junipero Serra was saving indigenous people and founding every city in California, even before the American Revolution.\u00a0 Sally Ride was a woman who went into space.\u00a0 Going into space is an accomplishment in and of itself, but being a woman is accidental.\u00a0 Why must we all honor it as if it were something heroic?<\/p>\n

Some critics argue that the switch originated more from a desire to remove Serra, a controversial figure, than to honor of Ride. SDSU history professor John Putman\u2013who teaches at the same institution where Ride once worked\u2013told<\/a> ABC 10 San Diego, \u201cSally Ride is a perfectly fine choice, but I think this is much more about Junipero Serra and removing a symbol of the past.\u201d He added, \u201cWithout Father Serra\u2019s venture, there would be no state of California,\u201d allowing, \u201cOpponents see him as a symbol of oppression.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everything good or loving is ‘oppressive’ and anything that’s been built.\u00a0 It doesn’t matter if it’s a great man, a great country, a great business, or a great Church, we must now have equality, build bridges, withhold judgment, renounce our evil profit for the sake of the poor, the poor, the poor!\u00a0 The poor are the center of the Gospel and the ‘human person’ (Can’t we assume each person in question is human?) must be the center of the new economic system!<\/p>\n

A new system?\u00a0 Does that mean the one where you produce something you want to sell and I buy it for the price I want to pay is going to be over?\u00a0 I thought that was just life.<\/p>\n

Everything must be turned upside down so I can continue my vacuous well-expensed UN peacocking.\u00a0 Pope Francis condemns ‘un-Christian’ arms makers while he’s protected by a deadly corps, and have you seen the elite way anti-capitalist Naomi Klein lives?<\/a>\u00a0 What is hypocrisy in our new moral FrancisCode?<\/p>\n

Communism isn’t about challenging wealth and oppression.\u00a0 It’s about confiscating power.\u00a0 Communism is just thuggery writ large and thug states like Cuba are the antithesis of God’s Commandments, His rule of law.\u00a0 That’s why Democrats, Mafia, Communists, Unions, Illegals, Atheists, Gays, Gangster-Rappers, Planned Parenthood, Islamists, Satanists, and the FrancisVatican are all allied.\u00a0 They share an agenda.<\/p>\n

We are being buried under a mountain of manipulation with the truth nowhere in sight.\u00a0 Of course we could always embrace the clear Christian witness of Laudato Si, yes?\u00a0 Well, it has its good points though.<\/p>\n

Ride, who admitted being a lesbian later in her life, was celebrated by the LGBT community. Jo Michael, legislative associate at Equality California, said, \u201cDr. Sally Ride is an icon and an inspiration for women and girls and for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. We believe it is high time for the LGTB community, and particularly LGBT youth, to be able to someone represent our community at this level and demonstrate that LGBT people can and do make history through their achievements,\u201d according<\/a> to the San Diego Union-Tribune<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is that history?\u00a0 Where is history?<\/p>\n

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In the new post-Christian Hell, statues honor our depraved selves, not the greatness of others.\u00a0 Is Susan B. Anthony an American founder or just a historical revisionist’s invention?\u00a0 What difference does it make?\u00a0 Things mean only what we’re told they should mean, yes? On Tuesday, the Assembly Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[527,526,524,525],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california-vote","tag-capitol","tag-junipero-serra","tag-sally-ride"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}