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

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Jon Egger

>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?

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.

>We can't erase our past.  Things happen.  Horrible things sometime.

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."

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.

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."

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).

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.

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie