Not Respecting the Past, Guarantees Repeating...

Lately, it’s been disheartening to see society cave to the relentless desires of some who want to remove statues, and change the names of schools all in the name of “political correctness”. Recently in San Antonio, local government removed a statue costing the city $150,000. They recently renamed a large school as well. People think by removing statues and renaming schools that racism will end. How foolish. Racism is a heart issue. If removing these objects and renaming entities works, then we will have to erase history. George Washington had slaves, so are we going to remove him from the history books? History is what actually happened. You can’t change that. If however, you remove all the things that are a reminder of those historical events, what is left to help us remember the good or bad? What’s left to help us not repeat the same mistakes of the past. Look at the Jewish Holocaust. If you were to travel to Germany today, you’ll find a large number of people who claim it never happened (seriously). I can almost predict it will happen again, maybe not to the scale it did, but supremacy will sprout its ugly head, when all the reminders of our past are taken down, or renamed. You can’t change the past, but even more so, when you remove all the reminders of the past, it doesn’t erase it, rather it guarantees it will eventually be repeated. All that Joseph did for the entire region was forgotten. Then evil found its way in. It took an act of God after 430 years, to set things straight. The past is the past, and it’s our obligation to never forget it.

6 In time, Joseph and all of his brothers died, ending that entire generation. 7 But their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied so greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled the land.8 Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are. 10 We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.”11 So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king. 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the more alarmed the Egyptians became. 13 So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy. 14 They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields. They were ruthless in all their demands.15 Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, gave this order to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah: 16 “When you help the Hebrew women as they give birth, watch as they deliver. If the baby is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.” Exodus 1:6-16