The Rude Pundit - Your Support of the Confederate Flag Makes You a Traitor

[Hestia]

72. More so than the flags, are the battleground memorials that states pay for upkeep and honor guards

each year "glorifying" our "illustrious past," that should all be torn down.

You see many more battlefield markers driving down the highway than flags. You see areas that have landscaping, pavilions and meditation gardens at these battlefields. Here, the state seems to commission a new area each year.

This is blood worship because what else can you call it?

The markers should be torn down, the marble smoothed or destroyed, and then turned into parks for everyone, not just the people who glorify and wallow in blood. Make them places of peace rather than war.

This blood worship becomes a symbol, always there to remind everyone, that people died defending a lost cause. So why in the world are we allowing monuments and altars to blood worship?

To me this includes all war memorials, no matter what year it happened. War is a bloody business, people killed either for ideology or plundering of resources (both). We learn from the histories of war but why are we putting up altars of worship at them?

Cemeteries are totally different - they have their place.