
Are we back to bonfires and book burnings in the public square. Attempts to obliterate what offends us usually do not work. Many times they backfires and creates more problems than if left alone. As I watched the Hope and Change unfold over the last eight years I realized it was not the hope and change I voted for back in 2004. It appears to he a total change of our society as we have know it over the past two hundred years. To me it seems that we are attempting to sanitize society of the things our country was founded upon. Christianity it appears is offensive to many who no longer value religion as a founding principle, therefore it needs to be systematically sanitized from society. My thoughts below are from my observation of things that have occurred and are presently occurring in our society. I am sure some of you may have a different perspective, but this is what I believe is happening. You are welcome to disagree. I welcome the discussion.
Sanitizing Society
Where will it stop
Our cleansing of things offensive
First it is religion
Anything Christian must go
Erased from the public sector
Wiped from our courthouses
Even though it was from this perspective
Our Republic was founded
Do away with Christmas in the square
It might be offensive to other faiths
No prayer to God in public meetings
It might offend someone with a different god
Attempts to take “In God We Trust” off our money
Attempts to remove “under God” from the pledge
Apparently we are not under God any longer
No books in school may discuss Christianity
Might influence little formative minds
But tolerance toward other minorities
With different moral values is no problem
Now it is Confederate Statues in the parks
Revealing a dark time in our Nation’s History
Don’t want to be reminded
No respect for countrymen who fell for a losing cause
Dark minds emerge to bring resistance and division
Fueling their ranks with even more followers
Now the dominos are falling all around
Here it is the change of street names
That might offend the offended
What will be next in our cleansing sweep
Perhaps sanitizing the Capital Dome
Of all Religious engravings there
Or perhaps Billy Graham from the parkway
History always has a dark side
Sometimes we choose to forget
Yet History does not go away
Just because we sanitize it
Religion does not die
Because it is cleansed from the public square
Perhaps we could learn from ourselves
Our bodies teach us well
When exposed to a little of everything
Immunity is built up
Sanitized from all germs or dirt
Children grow sickly and weak
The same is true of our country
We need to see and be exposed
To the dark side of our History
So when our children grow up
They will be immune to the evil
And hate practiced in the past
Sanitizing History from society
Only makes our country weaker
Forgetting our foundation principals
Makes us amoral and lacking ethics
Rise up and teach your children well
They will follow in your steps
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Photo: Dwight L. Roth