re: George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Francis Scott Key....

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So you're saying that religion has a dark and seedy history in allowing social injustice and promoting their own forms of class distinctions?

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Yes but if people really wanted to blame someone they should know the real history that contributed to the atrocities they feel so strongly against.

The statues are more about a point of reference or something tangible that they can point to for everyone to see and pass blame. The foundation of this country was founded by those in power at the cost of someone else. It was the same protestants that came to this country that committed treason against the crown, took the land of the indigenous people who they later slaughtered or forced them from their homes, and the Mexicans who they decided needed to either leave or come under their control in Texas and out west. Those protestants who protested to practice religion freely landing on the shores of the new world and later protested no taxation without representation.