[Magdalen] Whoops. We've got the Southern slavers' battle flag in the National Cathedral.

[Grace Cangialosi]

I didn't know Lee was ever in Brooklyn!

> On Jun 30, 2015, at 6:08 PM, "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> From: Jon Egger
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>> Things (and this thread) remind me of the "fighting bishop" (Leonidas
>> Polk?) who is memorialized at our seminary at Sewanee.  Do we remove him
>> from the seminary?  Do we simply forget him?
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> No -- but at the same time the interpretive information has to relate the consequences, for, say, persons of color. Not to mention the poor Whites who fought in order to keep their marginal economic existence at least slightly higher than Black people.
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>> We can't erase our past.  Things happen.  Horrible things sometime.
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> But we do erase our past when it conflicts with, say, the White Narrative -- as I;
> 've pointed out in both the TEC "Reconciliation" and the national political "Reconciliation."
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> Neither represented any reconciliation with either freemen or former slaves, for example -- they only represent "feel good" stuff for the White Majority ever since. In short -- that post Civil Ware "Reconciliation" is White Privilege fraud.
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> As for purging -- well, the story of St John's Fort Hamilton may be of interest -- "The Church of the Generals." As the size of the congregation dwindled, and as they survived in large measure through a "management fee" for a city-funded feeding program, they were sure they could continue their course as a private club because "This is the Historic Church of the Generals -- most famous of which was Gen. Robert E. Lee."
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> In the end after the city withdrew from the program, when they couldn't afford the electric bill anymore, the Diocese of Long Island closed it (merging with my own parish, Christ Church Bay Ridge).
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> None of that "heritage" baloney could save them. The diocese did not have the cash to subsidize their private club and the memory of Robert E Lee's time in Brooklyn.
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> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie
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