Doc Holliday said:
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Good for BU!
Acknowledging and confessing our sins is as biblical and conservative as it gets!
The only sad part is that it will take away a great BU legend.
Do you know why Burleson's hat is filled with cement.
Back in the 1920's, miscreant BU students would stuff rags in his hat and set them on fire.
Then they would call the Fire Dept., crying, "Burleson's on fire!"
Naturally, the Fire Dept. assumed this meant Burleson Hall, and dispatched firefighters.
Otherwise, he won't be missed.
It may not be a disaster in itself, but it reveals a troubling lack of courage on the part of the school.
You'll call me crazy, but mark my words -- it's only a matter of time until they're endorsing LGBT groups on campus.
"A troubling lack of courage"? Really?
How is the confession of sin and repentance a lack of courage? It seems the opposite to me.
I think it's really important to acknowledge the sins of racism and slavery in a place like Waco, which was the site of one of the most horrific lynchings in history.
You might find it interesting that Burleson and those guys thought Catholics were more dangerous than anybody. B.H. Caroll, for whom several buildings were named, believed the Catholic Church was antiChrist. He and all those other guys saw the Catholic Church as apostate. But eventually, BU allowed Catholic student groups. A move that was regarded as "liberal" at the time.
Why not reflect on the fact that people of your faith were once considered just as sinful and dangerous as LGBTQ groups and that it's because of "liberals" that Catholics were even allowed on campus?
You want to stop the wave that changed the status of Catholics on campus?
Asking the new guys at work to chip in because the previous workers stole lunch money is absurd and that's exactly what you're doing. You're also asking the new guys to confess as if they committed those sins or benefit from them.
Less than 1% of the American population owned slaves. You can trace every single one of them. You will find most of their relatives today aren't rich. A normal immigrant family moves up after 6-10 years in the country and buys a home...generational poverty is the DUMBEST theory ever.
Not to mention no one made more money on the slave trade than Africans. Do we punish any African American who immigrated after 1865 and demand they atone for their forefathers sins?
Yeah its stupid.
The people in favor of removing/relocating statues think the resistance against it is some kind of preservation of racism, but it's really just us knowing it's a slippery slope where it starts with statues and ends up in a very dark place in the future.
I am generally opposed to symbolic, emotional actions that will have zero impact. What will removing the statue actually accomplish other than give Livingstone some woke bona fides she can take to industry cocktail parties. I am pretty sure if one polled current students and faculty, administrators, and alumni, less than 1% would have any idea whether Burleson or anyone else owned slaves.
If you take this idea to its logical conclusion, do we cancel Paul for tacitly supporting slavery in Philemon? Do we cancel Jesus for not making anti-slavery a key message of the Gospels? Do we cancel American Indians? Why should white men from America uniquely face the wrath if the goal is altruistic anti-slavery, or is the reality that this is another attempt by the Marxists to tear down Western Civilization and replace it with a new, neo-Marxist ideology?
As abhorrent as slavery was, it was a normal fact of global society and continues to be in many parts of the world. It is genuinely anti-intellectual to apply current morality on historical people, who lived in a different time under different mores and ethics. Where does this end? Do we begin to cancel people like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama who opposed gay marriage?
We should be intellectually honest and recognize the basic fact that literally every person in the United States benefitted from the horrible institution of slavery. And we should acknowledge that few no country sacrificed more to end it. If we actually do want to promote unity and stop division, we must stop promoting divisive ideas and policies and focus on the present things that unite us versus artificially combing the pages of history for obscure reasons to divide us.
