The photo above, by Rodolfo Gonzalez, is a memorial near the shooting in Columbine.
Interesting item over at The Corner about whether the gunman should be included in any sort of symbol of all those who died yesterday in Virginia.
When you decide to use a Christian symbol to memorialize the dead, you really have to examine the depth and dimensionality of your Christian faith when it comes to deciding on putting up a cross for the gunman.
On this question, I am agnostic.
Increasingly familiar territory for me lately....
When you decide to use a Christian symbol to memorialize the dead, you really have to examine the depth and dimensionality of your Christian faith when it comes to deciding on putting up a cross for the gunman.
On this question, I am agnostic.
Increasingly familiar territory for me lately....
2 comments:
were all the victims christians? has anyone asked their familes if they want a cross erected in their honor?
i have no idea what a cross on a grave means/does. seems more for the living than the dead.
in any case, it would be presumptuous to assume that the dead want/need a cross.
dan, did i hear you say you are having moments of agnosticism?
These crosses, like all sorts of memorials, are strictly for the living, I think it's safe to assume.
It's hard to believe that any post-life life I may be on my way to would change in quality based on what's going on down here after I'm gone.
I guess the problem is that these crosses became so generic (not too far separated from the 'God bless you' courtesy after someone sneezes) but then people forget that the cross actually does imply something...both about the person it's memorializing and the person taking the effort to put it up.
Oh, and your eyes do not deceive you...
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