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Title: College removes cross – from chapel!
Source: WND
URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52646
Published: Oct 27, 2006
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2006-10-27 12:39:53 by bluegrass
Ping List: *New History*
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Views: 4529
Comments: 252

The cross from the altar area of the chapel at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va., has been removed to ensure the space is seen as a nondenominational area, explains Melissa Engimann, assistant director for Historic Campus.

"In order to make the Wren Chapel less of a faith-specific space, and to make it more welcoming to students, faculty, staff and visitors of all faiths, the cross has been removed from the altar area," Engimann announced in an e-mail to staff.

The cross will be returned to the altar for those who wish to use it for events, services or private prayer.

The cross was in place because of the college's former association with the Anglican Church. Though the college is now nondenominational and became publicly supported in 1906, the room will still be considered a chapel, college officials said.

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#1. To: bluegrass (#0)

This is kind of a private matter - it's not like this came from a court order, etc.

So it really is non of our business.

Destro  posted on  2006-10-27   12:50:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

The chapel is part of the Wren Building, the oldest academic building in America. It's had a cross in it since the chapel was added in 1732.

This is akin to what the Bolsheviks did to Russian religious history during their tyranny.

bluegrass  posted on  2006-10-27   13:05:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

The chapel is part of the Wren Building, the oldest academic building in America. It's had a cross in it since the chapel was added in 1732.

It's a private matter - none of my business or yours.

Destro  posted on  2006-10-27   14:16:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

It's a private matter - none of my business or yours.

I live in Virginia. W&M is a "public" school.

It's my biz.

bluegrass  posted on  2006-10-27   14:20:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I live in Virginia. W&M is a "public" school.

Then the cross should be removed since the state should not fund a religous specific chapel.

Destro  posted on  2006-10-27   14:22:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

By that reasoning, the publicly funded 'Holocaust' Museum in DC should have all of the six-pointed stars removed.

The larger issue is that the State has no business supporting universities.

bluegrass  posted on  2006-10-27   14:25:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

By that reasoning, the publicly funded 'Holocaust' Museum in DC should have all of the six-pointed stars removed.

A) I am against the existence of the Holocaust musuem in America - if it should exist anywhere it should be in Berlin/Europe.

With that said:

B) The Star of David was used as a identifying symbol by the Nazis so you could not have it removed from a museum that touches on the subject.

C) Was not the schismatic and heretical Anglican church founded by an overweight serial killer?

Destro  posted on  2006-10-27   14:28:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

The German Nazis used the genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' of Native Americans as one of the models to plan and execute their genocide and ethnic cleansing of those they found odious.

I would keep the museum and make the Shoah exhibit a wing. It needs exhibits showing what happened to 'New World' peoples, and to peoples in all the other corners of the world when their particular 'holocausts' happened.

The lesson that the museum teaches is an important one, it just need to be reorganized and changed to show that this is a sort of thing that has happened in different degrees at different times in human history.

To make it just cover the Shoah, it sends the false message that what the Nazis did was highly unusual, when in fact, it isn't. The museum is needed because this sort of thing will happen again if we don't use all the tools at our disposal to remember history to keep from repeating it.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2006-10-27   14:39:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

The German Nazis used the genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' of Native Americans as one of the models to plan and execute their genocide and ethnic cleansing of those they found odious.

I would keep the museum and make the Shoah exhibit a wing. It needs exhibits showing what happened to 'New World' peoples, and to peoples in all the other corners of the world when their particular 'holocausts' happened.

The lesson that the museum teaches is an important one, it just need to be reorganized and changed to show that this is a sort of thing that has happened in different degrees at different times in human history.

To make it just cover the Shoah, it sends the false message that what the Nazis did was highly unusual, when in fact, it isn't. The museum is needed because this sort of thing will happen again if we don't use all the tools at our disposal to remember history to keep from repeating it.

Hell Mike it's going to happen again no matter how many museums are put up; you can't change human nature and human beings are warlike creatures. In fact it is happening in the Middle East, and other parts of the world that we don't hear much about.

If there is one thing I have learned these past few years, it's that people in general can and do behave like monsters.

I think your claim about the nazis using the extermination of American Indians as a model is an urban legend of sorts, as the vast majority of Indians died from diseases they had no immunity against, and there was no concrete policy carried out to exterminate Native Americans, it happened over a long period of time, an incident here, incident there, and was not an organized effort.

As long as there are people, there will be selfishness, cruelty and cowardly behavior. As this country descends further into dictatorship, look for many cowards to come crawling out of the woodwork (for instance those who rat on others in order to score brownie points with those they perceive as being the powerful ones).

Diana  posted on  2006-10-27   17:37:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

there was no concrete policy carried out to exterminate Native Americans,

I think you are mistaken.

Making the Cherokees walk the Trail of Tears from the Carolinas to Oklahoma may not have been sold as racial extermination but that's pretty much what it accomplished.

Killing en masse the "praying" ie Christianized Indians of New England was pretty much the same thing.

Handing out smallpox infected blankets as Gen Amherst did was as blatant as it gets.

Massacring the families of the tribes encamped in the Palo Duro Canyon was pure genocidal behavior.

Take off those rose colored glasses and subscribing to the whitewashing of history. It's nasty.

swarthyguy  posted on  2006-10-27   17:44:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Handing out smallpox infected blankets as Gen Amherst did was as blatant as it gets.

I cited this once and a fellow took me to task for it.

He showed me a quote from a letter that was the source of this, and otherwise there is no evidence that such a thing ever took place.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2006-10-27   18:06:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I beg to differ. IMO, it's part of the whitewashing of history.

This link takes you to some of the source documents and actual statements.

Now, as to whether he personally handed them out or ordered it, fine, but there is no doubt as to his sentiments concerning them.

http://www.na tiveweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html

There are links to microfiche records and biographies and historical documents including William Trent's journal from the 1760's in which he describes certain incidents. The judgement of all these is up to you.

Some quotes from Bouquet to Amherst -

"...that Vermine ... have forfeited all claim to the rights of humanity" (Bouquet to Amherst, 25 June) [149k] "I would rather chuse the liberty to kill any Savage...." (Bouquet to Amherst, 25 June) [121k] "...Measures to be taken as would Bring about the Total Extirpation of those Indian Nations" (Amherst to Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of the Northern Indian Department, 9 July) [229k] "...their Total Extirpation is scarce sufficient Attonement...." (Amherst to George Croghan, Deputy Agent for Indian Affairs, 7 August) [145k] "...put a most Effectual Stop to their very Being" (Amherst to Johnson, 27 August [292k]; emphasis in original).

In short, it's almost immaterial now, but the sentiment to exterminate is very well documented among the writings of that time.

swarthyguy  posted on  2006-10-27   18:21:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

"...that Vermine ... have forfeited all claim to the rights of humanity" (Bouquet to Amherst, 25 June) [149k] "I would rather chuse the liberty to kill any Savage...." (Bouquet to Amherst, 25 June) [121k] "...Measures to be taken as would Bring about the Total Extirpation of those Indian Nations" (Amherst to Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of the Northern Indian Department, 9 July) [229k] "...their Total Extirpation is scarce sufficient Attonement...." (Amherst to George Croghan, Deputy Agent for Indian Affairs, 7 August) [145k] "...put a most Effectual Stop to their very Being" (Amherst to Johnson, 27 August [292k]; emphasis in original).

In short, it's almost immaterial now, but the sentiment to exterminate is very well documented among the writings of that time.

Well then, you've fingered some unsavory characters.

I just didn't see the order to send the sick blankets out to the natives.

There's no question that they probably would if the opportunity to execute it criminally and with stealth presented.

There were some people in positions of power who dealt with natives, and they had no sense of entitlement toward the gritty savages. Probably because they had a history of going ape and getting bloody, and the notion of the white man's burden to educate and shoe them had not yet matured as fashion.

But, I didn't see any general order there or anywhere up the line to authorize the wholesale reduction in native numbers through microbe contamination.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2006-10-27   21:42:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

National Minority Health Month Foundation Sponsors Free HIV Testing at California NAACP Convention - priceless, I suppose next I'll have to get rabies shots and heartworm dope if I want to unfreeze my bank account...

Dakmar  posted on  2006-10-27   21:47:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#96. To: Dakmar (#89)

National Minority Health Month Foundation Sponsors Free HIV Testing at California NAACP Convention - priceless, I suppose next I'll have to get rabies shots and heartworm dope if I want to unfreeze my bank account..

The govt will want to dip you for ticks and other parasites, of course.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2006-10-28 02:42:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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