Was This Inevitable?

[piggynose]

https://www.dailywire.com/news/idaho-church-removes-divisive-and-hurtful-stained-glass-robert-e-lee-window?utm_source=Jeeng

[ABerrant]

Perhaps religious institutions should limit their iconography and idolatry to explicitly religious themes and steer well clear of political imagery.

[Spicerack]

Ridiculous.

[woofgang]

Their window, their choice.

[Spicerack]

'Their'?

[Ken4155]

Inevitable maybe, but unnecessary.

[retrocop]

//We want to be clear that we are not attempting to remove history, but rather are removing a piece of a window from the sacred space within the Cathedral that does not reflect our Christian values. We believe this action can yet have a second life as an effective teaching tool in a context yet to be determined.///


” //Lee will be replaced with a person of color, though the church has yet to determine who that will be. The project will cost about $26,000, the church said.//


One can hardly imagine who that 'person of colour' relacement may be.
I hope it is not Floyd.After all sticking a loaded firearm arm into the stomach of a pregnant ,terrified woman while you ransack her house hardly 'reflects Christian values' or does the church believe God loves a sinner?

[Ken4155]

HAS ANY0NE EVEN SUGGESTED THE IMAGE 0F GE0RGE FL0YD IS USED RETR0? TH0UGHT N0T:-/
"0NE C0ULD HARDLY IMAGINE WH0 THAT PERS0N 0F C0L0UR REPLACEMENT MAY BE" I'M SURE THERE ARE MANY BLACK F0LK 0F A DECENT EN0UGH CHRISTIAN BEARING W0RTHY 0F BEING REPRESENTED IN THE CHURCH'S STAINED GLASS.

[Mamyalynne]

I can't really add much to what ABerrnt has said.

I'm sure there are better placings for political pieces of art.

[andy-hughes]

It is their window, and their choice what fills it.

It would have been better had they done as Aberrant suggests, and steered clear of historical figures rather than non-confrontational religious ones.

It's worth considering that in removing one unsuitable image, they may well be replacing it with another unsuitable image, because, by trying to convince everyone how woke they are, they are singling out another secular figure which really has no place in this setting.

Why not find a saint and pop him or her in there, and stop trying to convince everyone that the church is not racist.

It's a church for heaven's (!!) sake - surely anyone who is remotely interested in it can take a position of anti-racism as read?

[EdmundD]

Maybe Jesus - he was a person of colour. Or one of the apostles. None of them were white.

[andy-hughes]

Edmund - // Maybe Jesus - he was a person of colour. Or one of the apostles. None of them were white. //

There you are - all woke boxes ticked.