Stone Mountain

We took the family to Stone Mountain park outside of Atlanta today.  Apparently, Stone Mountain is the largest formation of granite of its kind in the world, and some daughters of the Confederacy types thought it was a good idea to carve a giant relief of General Lee, Lt. General T.J. Jackson, and Jefferson Davis into its side.  Now, personally, Lee and Jackson (along with J.E.B. Stewart) are some of my all-time heroes (unfortunately but honestly, I know little about Jefferson Davis).  However, a monument such as this seems rather unfitting for men of their valor and faith--they most likely would have balked at such a remembrance (while, I would bet a U.S.A. dollar to a C.S.A. dollar that Lincoln had started planning his monument before he was assassinated).  Men like Lee and Jackson deserve to have their stories--their whole stories, mind you--told to sons and daughters for generations to come, both here in the South and in the rest of the country.  Their legacy, though, would best be perpetuated by sons and daughters of the country they truly loved perpetuating their faith and hope in the Kingship of Christ.  A monument in rock is one thing; thousands of Christian men and women crying out for the "crown rights of King Jesus" to be manifest in their cities, states, and nations is quite another.  My guess is that both of these men (all three, maybe) would choose the latter.  Unfortunately, up to this point in history, all they have is the former.