The Church, much to the chagrin of fundamentalist, puritanical Protestants, has been maligned through the ages for baptizing things from paganism and giving them a new Christian meaning, like Halloween, Christmas, Easter and a whole range of other things.
For the most part, these protestant iconoclasts, like the Jehovah Witness have created their own sect devoid of Catholic accretions.
In the south, old stories are being picked up again as new.
I live in an area where neighborhoods, usually exclusive, are described as plantations. The Ford Plantation, Hilton Head Plantation and a bunch of others use the plantation name.
And now the storied "Masters" in Augusta is being challenged to change its name. Never mind that Tiger Woods is the greatest Master in the history of the tournament.
What to do, what to do, o what are southerners of the white class going to do?
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Father, Jack Nicklaus won the Masters 6 times, while Tiger has had 5 victories. So Jack is still the king down there. His 1986 comeback win at age 46 may go down as the best Masters ever.
As for what we should do, how about "nothing"? The PC crowd will never be appeased, anymore than Hitler could be appeased by the West. I don't know if the Berckmans had slaves there (I think they came along in the late 1850s), but even if they did, slavery thankfully was abolished in this country some 150 years ago. August National has changed with the times, and rightly so. Blacks were not allowed to play the Masters til the 1970s (I suspect in part because the chairman of the National at the time, Clifford Roberts, had "Old South" attitudes on race and was a supporter of Planned Parenthood). There are now black and female members. Tiger has traditionally had strong fan support down there. It is not as if Augusta National flies Confederate flags or has Confederate statues gracing Magnolia Lane!
Maybe what we need in this country is a "Bill of No Rights." Like, you do not have the right not to be offended by something (a monuement for instance), the right to free health care, the right to a color television...
Why couldn’t we let Tiger weigh in on this? And maybe even Condoleza Rice.
(Bee here: continued from previous post)
I tell that story by way of illustration. Whoever is inciting actions to tear down statues and disrupt cities has, prior to these riots, tapped into the idealism of these youth, and convinced them the only way to effect real change is anarchy. The youth believe they are working toward some great utopian future, one where everyone lives in peace and harmony and everything is "fair." The ones behind the scenes pumping them up know what the real agenda is, and how the future will really look. It will look like any harsh totalitarian country that imposes great burdens on the people and restricts their freedom, while telling them them must love and enjoy their rulers (or else). Like China. Or Poland before Solidarność. Think of that wonderful autonomous zone in Seattle, ushering in the "summer of love." What was the reality?
And, if you think about it, the same phenomenon happened in the Church back in the 1960's (and following decades), when all the young priests and nuns thought Vatican II was the beginning of a great flowering of Church, with peace, love and the establishment of the Kingdom of God on the earth (utopia), and so they ruthlessly tore apart the religion and were iconoclasts of the physical buildings and spiritual practices of their elders, thinking to usher in the great future where they saw themselves as the saints of the New Heavens and the New Earth.
And 60 years later, what is the result? Empty churches. No belief in the Real Presence. No vocations. Compromises with evil (silence or muted responses when it comes to issues the Church should be providing unequivocal moral guidance on, because now the hierarchy takes money from governments, and so they cannot speak out in conflict with the sinful ideas of the secular world.) Some utopia. Some Kingdom of Heaven.
Every generation of youth is full of dreams. And that is good. But that energy needs to be properly channeled in order to do true good, and not unintended but very real evil.
As to how to get there, now that most of our institutions have been taken over by the Left, I don't know. I suppose only God can help us now.
God bless.
Bee
Bee here:
I looked it up, and and the story goes (from Sport's Illustrated) that in 1934 when the event was created, "...Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts, the founders of the event, originally named the tournament, The Augusta National Invitational Tournament. When Roberts proposed the name, The Masters, Jones objected, believing the name was too presumptuous. However, five years later, Jones relented and the name was officially changed."
So the implication is that the tournament is for the very best of the very best golfers, the masters of the game. Nothing to do with white supremacy or slavery. But leave it to the Left to attack based on appearances, not reality.
As to what to do about all this? My dad had a small machine shop that supported our family. I had five brothers (and no sisters) and when teenagers, every one of them worked for my dad on a regular basis. When they graduated from high school, they worked there full time. To the man, every of them, when in their early 20's, suddenly became unwanted business advisors. They had a million ideas of how to change the business, from buying a fleet of various vehicles (unnecessary, due to the size of the business which was well served by one large truck and one pick-up), to having a sales office (which given the size of the company was not really necessary), to buying fancy machines to do specialty work (which there was not much of a market for and would have maybe bankrupted the company). In other words, in their youth they were filled with dreams of a great industrial enterprise with factories around the country, maybe the world, employing thousands of people, and they, of course, would be the executives of this organization.
This is totally normal dreaming and thinking for the young. And totally unrealistic and impractical for the actual situation. My parents treated them gently, listening to them, but ultimately none of their ideas were incorporated. They were disappointed, and a few, even resentful. They did not see why their dreams were not jumped upon or implemented. They thought my parents were backward and, frankly, stupid. They saw OPPORTUNITY. My parents sought stability and slow, manageable growth. After all, it was their livelihood.
Eventually my brothers grew up, and a couple (the most vocal) moved on, and then they began to see just how hard it is to establish and keep a business going. One brother started a business but it failed within five years. Another invested in real estate, and found management of properties and cash flow often curtailed what he hoped to gain and do.
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Bee here:
Sorry about the transposing of the posts. I forgot that on this blog later posts are at the bottom, not the top.
Yikes.
God bless,
Bee
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An ethnic problem.
A person who once on this blog referred to President Obama as the "Head N****r In Chief" and defended his comment by saying all his intelligent friends agreed with that characterization ought not be talking about "ethnic problems."
That person would be Gene.
Anonymous K,
And yet you defend and vote for the Abortion Party whose abortion lovefeast has killed more Blacks than the old slavery system
http://www.essentialcslewis.com/2020/06/20/ccslq-55-another-fake-screwtape-quote-souls-to-hell/
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