Catholic ping!
Posted on 01/30/2016 3:48:42 PM PST by NYer
The story behind a plaque at Mount Rushmore explaining the history of the United States of America with quite a Christian flavor would probably surprise many people.
President Calvin Coolidge met the artist Gutzon Borglum who prompted him to dedicate the site for a carving of four president's busts in the 1920's. Coolidge helped to raise funds and was even present as the cornerstone was laid and said, “We have come here to dedicate a cornerstone laid by the hand of the Almighty. …The union of these four presidents carved on the face of the everlasting Black Hills of South Dakota … will be distinctly American in its conception, in its magnitude, in its meaning."
Borglum, in turn, asked that Coolidge himself write the inscription that would accompany the portraits on Rushmore. You see he didn't want a group of heads in a mountain without an explanation. He feared that without an "entablature," generations in the future wouldn't understand their importance, much like Stonehenge or the rock faces of Easter Island. The words were supposed to appear writ large right next to the presidents' heads.
A law was passed partly funding the project and stating that Coolidge would write the inscription that would "endure for 5,000 centuries."
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Catholic ping!
I always think of that.
Have there been calls by atheist groups to have the plaque removed?
Now there will be.
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Biographic sketch of Calvin Coolidge
https://coolidgefoundation.org/presidency/a-biographical-sketch-of-calvin-coolidge/
Not exactly what most history books write about him.
Almighty God, from this pulpit of stone The American People render thanksgiving and praise for the new era of civilization brought forth upon this continent. Centuries of tyrannical oppression sent to these shores, God-fearing men to seek in freedom the guidance of the Benevolent Hand in the progress toward wisdom, goodness toward men, and piety toward God.
http://ericfoy.com/content/bronze-plaque-mount-rushmore
Photo: Calvin Coolidge laying cornerstone,George Washington memorial,Alexandria, VA in 1923 Photo Coolidge-cornerstone Washington Alexandria, VA
The faces of slave owners. Remove them immediately! Im joking of course but this is where we are heading!
Hmmm...Washington & Jefferson each freed their slaves, Lincoln & T. Roosevelt never owned any.
Guess it’s just that they’re dead white males. It will have to do.
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plague?
North by Northwest is one of my most favorite movies. Hitchcock, always ready with a joke, wanted to call it “The Man in Licoln’s Nose” but several people objected. Instead they named it the direction taken by Northwest airlines.
Now the Allah IMANs know there is a CHRISTIAN plaque on Mount Rushmore, they will demand its destruction.
A plaque or a placque?
To build public support for his program of "constructive economy," as he referred to it, he cleverly made pioneering use of the new medium of radio, reporting semi-annually to the public on the budget and tax matters
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