As a Conservative I am appalled at this desecration of the final resting places of these great men and women. Not only did they make elaborate plans to bury themselves they gave the world some of it's very greatest art in the process, art which has been shared with the world for hundreds of years.
These are not anonymous paupers or pre-historic remains of archeological significance. These are the well known remains of historic individuals. They should be left to rest in peace as they intended and not disturbed for the amusement of moderns.
To think that our transitory desires over ride the dictates of tradition and decency if a fundametally liberal position. Just as marraige is no longer a sacred bond, the tomb too is apparently only a temporary resting place until some govt. agency decides they want to 'investigate'.
Has all decency fled our world? Why is everyone on this conservative forum so enthusiastic about this desecration?
What they accomplished while they lived is what is important; the history they wrote as a direct results of their actions is their legacy. To desecrate their final resting places to satisfy the morbid curiosity of scholars is blasphemous.
May God forgive them.
Beauseant!
Amen.
This sounds like the desecration of a church. I have no idea how this could be permitted.
You apparently have been to Hattenheim, on the Mosell river.
The church ran out of space in the cemetary, so all the bones were dug up and moved to the church basement. Layered very neatly too, I might add. At the time I was there (45 years ago) it only cost 5 phennigs to go down and look.
One scarecely knows where to begin.
For years Native American groups protested National Geographic over what they saw saw as the blasphemous desecration of their ancestral remains. It is only very recently that NG turned to being "PC" and returned the remains to tribal leaders.
Has all decency fled our world?
Hear, hear!