He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
It is a very common practice in my day for statues and monuments, meant to memorialize great leaders or significant points of history, to be torn down and destroyed.
Some of them, I think, ought to come down
Those of Stalin and Saddam Hussein, for instance.
Some of them are a tragedy to have them come down
Statues of Robert E Lee and other Confederate leaders are a demonstration, not so much of their rebellion, but of our nation’s willingness to forgive and unite. Those tearing them down do not understand the significance of them to US solidarity.
It is tragic that the serpent Moses had made needed to be destroyed
From an historic point of view, it marked a major milestone in Israel’s history. But history is not our God. When an historical figure evolves into something more than an academic or moral lesson, it is completely appropriate to remove it from our presence.
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