Soooo Offended

Apparently the Ten Commandments are furtively lurking beneath an undergrowth of vegetation somewhere at the Oakland, California, zoo. Some human being of the hypersensitive variety, unable to look away, and crawling under the undergrowth (as befits his/her stature) found the monument and was offended. However, with naked, captive animals parading in front of him during his entire visit, he was not offended. Neither was he offended by the fact that obliterating the history of the people who chose to honor a judge by putting the monument there many years ago is a really evil thing to do. Any historian might argue that to do so is both a crime against a past generation's legacy and also against future generations' right to know their own history. Leaving monuments and public structures with their rather minor references to religion says something about what was valued then and how people held a connection between religious values and public values. At the very least, leaving such things intact allow future historians and generations to calculate exactly when godlessness took hold, marking when their ancestors took a turn for the worse. Maybe scientists could even trace human DNA back to the 1960's when, most likely, the dreaded godless gene mutation occurred. Mmmm. I wonder what the old folks who spent time and money putting up the monument and holding a ceremony might say today? Since they had religion, good ol' time religion, they might say this: "Your present uncivil state is appalling. Rather than going to church and learning humility, you are continually arguing over nothing, trying to put yourself front and center. (shaking their heads)I pity the fact that you have frittered away your time in self absorption, puffing up your opinions instead of learning to be generous, kind, and forgiving, especially towards your elders. I should say that you are ill mannered indeed, ungrateful for all that past generations have done for you and unable to extend them respect. You should be ashamed. (wagging their fingers) Hopefully the people who put up that monument will forgive you for destroying something that did not belong to you." Then you would be punished by one of the old timers from that godly generation to whom the monument meant much, as a reminder of just how offensive your poor offended views really are. You would find yourself in your room without supper (which is not the punishment mentioned above, but is in addition to it) and told to ponder your intolerant tolerance. And lastly, you would be told (oddly enough for you) to pray, so that your impudent soul would not be wasted in this lifetime or in the next. You may still grow up to be a self-absorbed, intolerant, godless idiot, but at least a previous generation, unlike you, would have taken the time and energy to teach young people that a good life based on religious tenets is far superior to one based on a bruised ego.