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These faith based films and series, like "The Chosen," that are specifically recounting stories from the Old and New Testaments are a great benefit to society, and is art that should be consumed multiple time over a period of time.

The story of Abraham's near sacrifice of Issac is not only high drama but a valuable lesson of what lengths the father of literally two separate religions would endure to prove his devotion to the One God.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 8:15 am By: Stan Deatherage

Thank you commissioners Deatherage, Richardson, Rebholz, and Waters for voting to preserve our history. It is hard to fathom what the others were thinking.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 6:52 am By: Victoria

CT: The Woke are an ignorant and cowardly lot, some of the worst this nation has ever produced, with one goal: "to care so much" as these practicing fools ruin our Republic.

And the key to stopping them is ... STOPPING THEM!

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 8:22 pm By: Stan Deatherage

When you advocate for the anti-history pogrom of Mao's Cultural Revolution, Little Bobbie, that makes you a Maoist. From your posts, you are also an adocate of "equity" as the far left uses that term today, which is a very different thing than equality, and it is consistent with Marxist ideology. You also support Marxist concepts like CRT, DEI, and ESG.

Actually, when you consider what Marx wrote concerning the war, your position, Bobbie, is considerably to the left of Marx.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 7:39 pm By: John Steed

Why celebrate our Confederate past? One has to look past the partisan explanations of the north that it was about slavery (odd that it did not become that for over a year since the war started) or the South that it was about state's rights. I look to the ananlysis of the greatest statesman of the 20th century, Sir Winston Churchill, who was also a meticulous student of history and wrote a book on US history entitled "The Great Republic". That book contains a chapter on the causes (plural) of the War Between the States.

What Churchill identifies as the primary cause of the war is the final rupture of a conflict of ideas that had existed since the country was founded, between the concept of a powerful central government, originally advocated by Alexander Hamilton and represented in 1861 by the North, and the concept of limited government originally advocated by THomas Jefferson and represented in 1861 by the South. The Confederate government was organized around the Jeffersonian principles of limited government, and that was an ideal worthy to fight for, and worthy to celebrate today.

Churchill as a foreigner analyzing the causes of the war was in a much better position to be objective than northerners or southerners here.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 6:52 pm By: Steven P. Rader

As far as complexity of the times, we can agree. On the rest, we will have to agree to disagree. Honestly JS, I've never understood why some advocating for equality under the law would be considered a Marxist? I enjoy the capitalist system however, I advocate for equal opportunity. The very opportunity denied many for most of our history and even today the effects of the one sidedness is still felt. Are things better? Yes. The reason its better is because a lot of people fought and fight for change. Honor the dead? Sure. But don't let their mistakes live on.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 5:11 pm By: Big Bob

We are all a product of our times and no one is maligning anyone personally. That said that phase of our history is not something to be celebrated. Sometimes we do bad things. Best to seek forgiveness and redemption and move on treating each other better.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 1:40 pm By: Big Bob

The above quote by George Orwell is a good one, but there is a better one from his novel "1984" which is directly on point with what the leftists are doing today to our history:

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right." -Geroge Orwell, from "1984"

Bob, I would also point out to you that to true southerners, maligning their ancestors are fighting words.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 1:04 pm By: Steven P. Rader

President Eisenhower signed an executive order saying that Confederate veterans are American veterans and are to be treated the same way. Those who want to dishonor any of our veterans are scumbags who are beneath contempt. Bobbie, you ought to take your Maoist Cultural Revolution over to where it started in Beijing. Anti-veteran anti-southern bigots like you are not wanted here. Begone, troll.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 11:39 am By: Conservative Voter

Affirmative Action has been around for over half a century, which has tilted the playing field in favor of minorities and against whites, especially white males. Everyone now of working age has been in that environment. I don't know of whites complaining about that, but the left sure wants to keep complaining about something that has not impacted anyone of current working age. Only some of advanced age would perhaps remember the last gasps of Jim Crow from their early childhood. You progs are beating a dead horse.

Kemi Badenoch, a black woman serving in Boris Johnson's cabinet called Critical Race Theory "a dangerous trend in race relations" in a speech on the floor of the House of Commons that was called "the speech of the year" in the UK. You can hear the most acclaimed part of that speech here: www.youtube.com

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 10:21 am By: John Steed

Those who trash our history are the very definition of RINOs. I wonder if Randy Walker's vote against our history as a county commissioner reflects what his wife will do on the school board when it comes to the history curriculum?

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 9:54 am By: Rino Hunter

Jim Crow didn't happen a long time ago.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 9:46 am By: Big Bob