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Confederate Stained Glass To Be Replaced With Racial-Justice Themed Windows At National Cathedral
The Mix ^ | 9/23/2021 | James Conrad

Posted on 09/23/2021 12:27:27 PM PDT by MJacks4

The Washington National Cathedral issued a statement on Thursday announcing that it will be replacing historic stained glass windows that depict Confederate iconography with “woke” racial-justice themed windows that honor African Americans.

There are 231 stained glass windows in the National Cathedral. The windows that are being replaced were were installed in 1953 and they were removed in 2017.

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TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; nationalcathedral; stainedglass
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To: MJacks4
Woodrow Wilson's final resting place.

Will he be removed too?

21 posted on 09/23/2021 1:56:45 PM PDT by x
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To: MJacks4

You can’t remove one theme and replace it with another. Just put up some floral windows or something...this is all such bull manure.


22 posted on 09/23/2021 2:28:56 PM PDT by Irenic ( )
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To: DJ MacWoW

I thought the BLM sign that stated Science is Real would keep my structure from all harm. /s


23 posted on 09/23/2021 2:40:40 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The crowd was chanting "Death to America", but they were a mostly friendly crowd.)
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To: Irenic

Exactly.

Basically, wherever we see BLM whoa-is-me whitey-bad monuments, we KNOW it was a Confederate monument.


24 posted on 09/23/2021 3:03:33 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: GOPJ

Shame to think now that Reagan was eulogized there.

And that’s AFTER the outrage of very publicly letting Moslems in for their worship service…of course, AFTER 9/11.


25 posted on 09/23/2021 3:07:47 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: NoLibZone
Once all the statues and windows have been removed the last remaining remnant of the confederacy will be the democratic party

LOL! Ain't that the truth.
26 posted on 09/23/2021 3:33:41 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: BenLurkin; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ..

The Derp State “church.” I expect the new stained glass will consist of a depiction of Saint George Floyd of Fentanyl and anuses (Episcopals love those dilated anuses).


27 posted on 09/23/2021 5:35:59 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: thesharkboy
Before this gesture, I didn’t realize that slavery was bad. Who could have known?

Leviticus 25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you—you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you. 46 You may give them as an inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly… NETBibleTagger, Provided by bible.org

28 posted on 09/23/2021 9:33:48 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Stolen elections have consequences.)
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To: pierrem15; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA

I like stained glass.

One panel looked like RE Lee kneeling in prayer after surrendering. Oh the horror!!!


29 posted on 09/24/2021 10:52:39 PM PDT by Impy ("We didn't steal the election, we swear!!!" - Sincerely, The Election Thieves )
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To: BenLurkin; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza

Episcopalian churches tend to lean heavily liberal, so I’m not surprised. Per Impy’s description, it sounds like the “Confederate iconography” to Robert E. Lee is not so much a pro-Confederate memorial as it a simply a pane of historical events from U.S. history. No doubt the difference is lost on BLM thugs.

(Of course, you got people on “our side” who go nuts upon learning there is a statue of Muhammad at the U.S. Supreme Court building, not realizing that A) It’s not there is “honor” religious prophets but rather to depict a serious of famous “lawgivers” throughout history, and B) Muslims are AGAINST the statue of Muhammad and want it REMOVED, as it is strictly AGAINST the Islamic religion to have visual depictions of religious prophets)

Anyway, back on topic….

IMO, the “National Cathedral” shouldn’t even BE Episcopalian to begin with. It most likely ended up that way because it was grandfathered in... e.g., the dominant church at the time this nation was founded was Anglicianism, so they decided the best way to “honor” the Christian spirit of this new nation would be to build a “National Cathedral” and give it to whichever American church had the most adherents. Today, its pretty silly, since Episcopalism has been on the decline for decades and make up like 1.5% of the U.S. population in the 21st century or so. I supposed it could be worse; imagine if the “National Cathedral” of the United States was United Church of Christ. Rev. Wrighty would have a nice new position after 0bama got elected POTUS!

If it were up to me, I would say the best way to have a “National Cathedral” — and honor the United States character of a nation WITHOUT an official “state church” that was founded on religious liberty for ALL people — would be to have the building be officially “non-denominational”. I would designate that such a church building be SHARED by various religious denominations on a rotating basis, they would have to coordinate in advance and book the building so the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod could use the “National Cathedral” for Ash Wednesday services, the Roman Catholic diocese of D.C. would use the building on Good Friday, the Greek Orthodox community in the beltway area gets it for the Easter Sunday, the Southern Baptists get it on Christmas Day, etc., etc. Due to its spirit as the “national” church, there would be some kind of “tradition” that whatever religion the President is would get the church on inauguration day, and same thing for the Speaker of the House when they have some sort of prayer service for the opening of congress, and so on. Makes sense to me.

Apparently, such a system is known as “simultaneum”, and its very rare in the United States (the only example I found of a church building shared by multiple denominations the Church of the Holy Apostles in Virginia Beach, website is here: https://www.holyapostlesvb.org/), though its rather common in Germany (due to Catholics and Lutherans having about equal numbers and having to tolerate one another in the same cities), and is common in historic pilgrimage sites in the holy land, obviously out of necessity.

Washington National Cathedral IS already used for inaugurations and funerals of various political leaders regardless of their nomination, but it nevertheless remains the “official” headquarters of the Episcopalian Church U.S.A., which means this kooky SJW woman “bishop” has the USA’s “National Church” as HER seat of authority (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariann_Budde) . I find that bizarre, in effect that means we now have a “National Bishop” for ALL Americans despite having NO official “state church” in our country. We need to end the “National Bishop” loophole. ;-)

Anyhoo, I’m Catholic, we have our OWN “National Cathedral”, The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. (https://www.nationalshrine.org/) Ironically, is NOT actually a “Cathedral” (the Catholic bishop of Washington D.C. doesn’t run the church or conduct services there), but it certainly IS comparable to Washington National Cathedral in both size and scope (7,000 sq. ft, compared to WNC’s 7,700 sq ft., and seating capacity of 10,000, compared to only 4,000 for WNC). I attended services there when I was in D.C. in 2013 for the March for Life. If we’re not going to get my proposal of a non-denominational “Simultaneum” National Cathedral, the next best thing would be to simply make the Basilica into America’s NEW National Cathedral. It would be like when they moved the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. :-)


30 posted on 09/25/2021 5:03:11 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Biden? Yes We Can!)
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To: Impy
BTW, owing to its character as the NATIONAL Basilica for ALL American Catholics, the building has dozens of chapels, each dedicated to a DIFFERENT type of Catholic tradition (for example, Polish-Americans would have a chapel highlighting Polish Catholic traditions and saints)

I don't know if there's anything similar in Washington National Cathedral. If there is, it sounds like its going to go the way of the Robert E. Lee stained glass window pane.

31 posted on 09/25/2021 5:34:48 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Biden? Yes We Can!)
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To: BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj

Back in the day the Episcopalians used to be called “The Republican Party at prayer”. Now (other than conservative breakaways) they are (and I think all the other “mainline” protestant churches, including the “Evangelical” Lutherans) are garbage.

The likes of Bergolio and Cupich want to turn the Catholic Church into that.


32 posted on 09/27/2021 4:43:52 PM PDT by Impy ("We didn't steal the election, we swear!!!" - Sincerely, The Election Thieves )
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