Monday, September 17, 2007

Another Reason to Be Thankful That She Lost Her Seat


Former School Board substitute Kay Brooks was unhappy with the rumor that Mayor-elect Karl Dean would be having his inauguration at what is nothing more than a secular art museum. Ms. Brooks wasn't happy because of the Parthenon's mock-ups of a pre-Christian religion. And having a ceremony there would be preferring an ancient religion over her own brand of Christianity, even though the place is really nothing more than a tombstone memorializing the dead.

But now she is happy because the Dean Campaign has validated her grousing by telling her that the ceremony is instead scheduled for the Courthouse Square, almost in the very shadow of some scantily clad graven images on the courthouse doors celebrating the ancient Greek, pre-Christian virtues (the topless one above in the photo on the left is Loyalty, who might fit right in at Musica).

Let's hope that any rain might hold off, lest the ceremony be moved inside the Courthouse--looking like an ancient temple itself--under a vaulted ceiling of pre-Christian zodiac signs, which grew out of ancient Egyptian and Babylonian astrologies and demiurges and which now garner the adoration and divination of neo-pagan New Agers.

The only other option would be to move it into the bare, cold, concrete-slabbed parking garage underneath the Courthouse Square. Such a barren and neutered tableau would no doubt satisfy even the purest of Puritan preoccupations, as long as they get their government-sponsored Christmas Tree on that Courthouse Square in December.

5 comments:

  1. Mike, You're awesome. That is all. :)

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  2. Funny stuff! I haven't read anything from this Kay chick before, but I assume in the past she's been very partial towards christianity? From the post you linked to she seems to be suggesting the absence of any religious connection to the swearing in of the new mayor.

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  3. Great entry . . . funniest thing I've read in a long time. Your comments on the symbolism of the courthouse murals and decor are priceless.

    Also, when I first read the headline, I thought it would be about Carolyn Baldwin Tucker. There's just so many to choose from, I guess.

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  4. Humorous observations, Mike. Perhaps if Mrs. Brooks looked into the origins of her Christianity, she'd discover its astrological roots.

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