Posted on 02/01/2018 7:51:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It looks like Christopher Columbus can stay put. For now.
Earlier this month, New York Citys Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers announced that the 76-foot monument to Columbus can remain at the traffic circle at the southwest corner of Central Park, despite protests from groups claiming to speak for Native Americans.
For both Italian Americans, who view Columbus as a symbol of ethnic pride, and Latinos, whose culture was born from the Spanish colonization ushered in by Columbus, the decision comes as a relief. But the commissions report is not all good news. A close review reveals the precarious place of Columbus, and other historic figures, in todays culture of grievance.
Recall that New York mayor Bill de Blasio announced the commissions formation amid controversy over Confederate war memorials in Charlottesville, Va., and elsewhere. Never mind that New York isnt exactly known for its monuments to southern generals. Fear of missing out on the icon-smashing bandwagon led de Blasio to set his sights on other symbols of hate, targeting Columbus, in particular, for immediate attention.
But this didnt stop de Blasio from flaunting his Italian heritage by marching in the annual Columbus Day parade in October. Apparently, de Blasio, who was born Warren Wilhelm Jr. but now uses his mothers maiden name (for obvious political reasons), wants to have things both ways: to cultivate the good will of Italian Americans while simultaneously stoking his radical-progressive base.
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The problem is that focuses God’s lens of scrutiny on us equally closely.
Are you so sure your tribe has not also been monsters?
Cooperating with PCdiots in their madness doesn’t lead to anyone’s edification. It only lets them grow worse in their madness.
What about your madness? It looks far more manmade than bible.
And watch for lies and sin in your own premises.
My tribe? Define my tribe. If you mean republicans, I could care less. I want EVERY one implicated in this criminality brought to justice. Every. Single. One.
Could it be we’ve been idolizing Columbus? That’s my more mature Christian retrospective on a whole lot of puerile “patriotism.”
God said smash the idols. There is a God given point in the madness.
What about your sins before God?
RE: You really think Italians in NYC will let this happen?
Well the NYC mayor is of Italian descent isn’t he? He’s letting it happen I think.
Oh my, a pagan Italian might relinquish an idol.
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The ethnicity of those who trade in these things does not matter. To suppose your group has suffered, that it could suffer as if it were a person and not a mere entity (an abstraction of persons), and that suffering is therefore transmitted to you because of association is simply unwise, self destructive.
DiBlasio is a commie Italian who disgraces the Italian Community of the NY Boroughs.
I don't deny that I'm a miserable sinner. But I'm justified by my faith in Christ. I've been washed in His blood. Are you suggesting that because I'm a sinner I should just look away from horrific crimes like pedophilia and child murder? Maybe you can do that but not me.
I submit that your loveless conservatism has looked away from abortion and the larger unseemly scene around it, to the point that all you could offer is catty remarks.
God’s price to America for restoration of love is going to be boatloads of amnesty.
Period. And you will have to learn it.
He may be safe in New York. Not so much in San Jose, however.
And yes. The Left did get one thing right. That many vices are institutional.
When we would bear forth the sword we must look in a mirror.
No. The law of God is always higher than the law of man. And if He wants Christ to bear America’s load to make it great again — we are exceedingly foolish to defy.
I call it the PC Lobotomy.
It is very fashionable—DiBlasio got one done... :-)
I think you’d prefer widespread forgiveness than an America that goes to hell either all at once or in a seesaw manner. As the Left is far from being obviously entirely convictable under our law, and if the forgiving love of Christ is refused to flow in, the Left that is remaining will only be further energized by hell. Such a victory would be Pyrrhic.
Trump is not omnipotent but you can’t miss that he hailed to an omnipotent God the other night. And you want to refuse the answer for the sake of doing it man’s way? For crying shame in all our churches!
Ah, I believe there is some method even in such madness.
It’s an attempt to do man’s way what we would automatically do if we bowed to the Spirit that comes from the Father. The statue isn’t the sin. It is neutral. It can be put to any use. Idolization is the sin. We need Columbus as a Christian morality story, as prone to both standing and falling as any of the bible’s faith greats. Put his story on a plaque by the statue. The sin and the salvation.
What are you talking about? I've been a prayer leader , activist and volunteer against abortion since I was 15 years old in 1973! Don't assume you know me or know what's important to me.
How deep is your prayer, your spiritual life?
Can Nineveh be your example? Jonah wished the retribution. God said no, simply issue the warning. Jonah pouted “You’ll forgive! No fair!” Are you pouting with Jonah or is your heart aching with Jesus?
I know a lot of superficials in the Christian world who never go head over heels for Jesus but simply put in a measured duty.
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