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2022-07-28 -Great Cultural Revolution

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-28 10:20|| || Front Page|| [21 views ] Top

#1 As far as the New Orleans part goes, this story is screwed up at multiple levels.

Posted by Matt 2022-07-28 14:13|| 2022-07-28 14:13|| Front Page Top

#2 How so, Matt?

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-28 14:40|| 2022-07-28 14:40|| Front Page Top

#3 tw: The statue of Robert E Lee was mounted on a tall column in, not surprisingly, Lee Circle near downtown New Orleans. It was taken down several years ago, and not replaced -- there is just a column with an empty plinth. The article implies that the modern statuary sits on top of the column -- not so. It is off to the side and, as I understand it, temporary. More to the point, the article accuses New Orleanians of being religious primitives unaware of the book of Genesis. While New Orleans certainly has its share of non-believers and its share of downright evil people, on the whole New Orleans is one of the most thoroughly Judeo-Christian cities in the country, as exemplified by the great Touro Synagogue on St. Charles Avenue, and of course St. Louis Cathedral, which is part of the picture postcard view of New Orleans.

Posted by Matt 2022-07-28 15:51|| 2022-07-28 15:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah. Thank you for explaining, Matt.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-28 21:34|| 2022-07-28 21:34|| Front Page Top

#5 I’m especially intrigued by the statue of a naked woman in the coils of a snake.

If I read it right, it wasn't a snake until it was cursed and made to crawl or something. But who cares, it's the principle of the thing.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-28 23:44|| 2022-07-28 23:44|| Front Page Top

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