The Lincoln Memorial will not be in the New Jerusalem.
Our civilization’s monuments, the testimonial pillars of our cultural identity, have been subjected to an increasingly strident moral audit. It has been observed to the point of banality that this subjection will leave no memorial unscathed and standing. The new purity tests being applied are a revision and narrowing of our cultural standards of decency, and society’s understanding of the imperfections of our heroes has shifted from indictments of irrelevant blemish to grossly disqualifying sin.
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Cameron Shaffer
Cameron Shaffer (PhD candidate, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is the Senior Pastor of Langhorne Presbyterian Church in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, author of Keeping Kids Christian, and serves on the Board of Directors for the World Reformed Fellowship.
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