Christ or Chemosh?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Canon Press.
0:11.4	Christ or Chimash, Monday, January 30th, 2023.
0:16.2	Introduction.
0:17.7	There will of course be a temptation for conservatives to regard this particular rooftop
0:21.5	debacle.
0:22.5	It's just one more art fail.
0:24.4	And we have kind of gotten used to all of those.
0:26.5	Those come along every couple of weeks.
0:28.1	But something far deeper, far more serious is manifesting itself.
0:32.4	This statue sits atop a New York City courthouse.
0:35.2	The artist explains it on this wise.
0:37.3	It is part of a, quote, urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New York reconsidered
0:42.7	traditional representations of power in public spaces and recast civic structures to better
0:48.1	reflect 21st century social mores.
0:51.2	Cultural reckoning is exactly right.
0:53.1	This is not the chicken's coming home to roost.
0:55.2	This is the chickens coming home to die and then to rot.
0:58.3	The carcasses are all over the front yard, and then the maggots started in, and flies
1:02.2	are everywhere all over the house.
1:04.2	A short outline of what lies ahead.
1:07.3	What lies ahead in this post, I mean.
1:08.9	What lies ahead in our cultural moment is nine miles of bad road.
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