History
I had lunch with an old friend a couple of weeks ago. Alan and I met in Junior High School in 1963, and we played football together through Junior High and High School. We co-captained the team in our senior year at Baldwin High School, home of the “Fighting Highlanders”. (I still have no idea why a school would choose a guy in a kilt carrying a bag pipe as its representative image. Our opponents were tigers, cougars, bobcats, bears, blue devils, red raiders, and Indians. We were the "guy in a skirt." But I digress…)
Alan and I had fun reminiscing about Junior High and High School, especially our experiences on the football field. I found it interesting how often I could remember things that Alan didn’t, but when I mentioned the event, it came back to his memory. He also remembered events that I had long ago forgotten until he reminded me.
Memory is an intriguing aspect of our existence, and I am amazed that I am able to recall plays that took place on the football field over 40 years ago, but somehow unable to remember the college graduation party my sister hosted for me after I graduated. Memory involves a recollection of the past, and these recollections can sometimes be very slippery things. That’s why it is so helpful that events of the past are often recorded in writing. But it is only helpful if what has been written is true. The Highlander football team won 5 and lost 4 in 1967. If I decide to write my life story (I’m taking advance orders) and I write that our team was 9 – 0, I become guilty of “historical revisionism”. As we discussed in class last week, quite a bit of revisionism has taken place when it comes to the history of the United States of America.
How is it that so few of American citizens ever learned anything about the religious and moral beliefs of the founders of this once great nation? An even better question is WHY!
In the weeks to come, we will examine historical documents such as the charters of the original states, statements made by some of the original founders, and the clear and unequivocal call to reliance upon God by leaders such as Washington, Adams, Franklin, Rush, Webster, and Lincoln. When we look at un-revised history, we will find evidence that this country was indeed built on a foundation of the Christian religion.
Revelation 2:5 says “Remember the height from which you have fallen!” If you are anything like me, our look at history may cause you to see that we have fallen even further than we thought.
I had lunch with an old friend a couple of weeks ago. Alan and I met in Junior High School in 1963, and we played football together through Junior High and High School. We co-captained the team in our senior year at Baldwin High School, home of the “Fighting Highlanders”. (I still have no idea why a school would choose a guy in a kilt carrying a bag pipe as its representative image. Our opponents were tigers, cougars, bobcats, bears, blue devils, red raiders, and Indians. We were the "guy in a skirt." But I digress…)
Alan and I had fun reminiscing about Junior High and High School, especially our experiences on the football field. I found it interesting how often I could remember things that Alan didn’t, but when I mentioned the event, it came back to his memory. He also remembered events that I had long ago forgotten until he reminded me.
Memory is an intriguing aspect of our existence, and I am amazed that I am able to recall plays that took place on the football field over 40 years ago, but somehow unable to remember the college graduation party my sister hosted for me after I graduated. Memory involves a recollection of the past, and these recollections can sometimes be very slippery things. That’s why it is so helpful that events of the past are often recorded in writing. But it is only helpful if what has been written is true. The Highlander football team won 5 and lost 4 in 1967. If I decide to write my life story (I’m taking advance orders) and I write that our team was 9 – 0, I become guilty of “historical revisionism”. As we discussed in class last week, quite a bit of revisionism has taken place when it comes to the history of the United States of America.
How is it that so few of American citizens ever learned anything about the religious and moral beliefs of the founders of this once great nation? An even better question is WHY!
In the weeks to come, we will examine historical documents such as the charters of the original states, statements made by some of the original founders, and the clear and unequivocal call to reliance upon God by leaders such as Washington, Adams, Franklin, Rush, Webster, and Lincoln. When we look at un-revised history, we will find evidence that this country was indeed built on a foundation of the Christian religion.
Revelation 2:5 says “Remember the height from which you have fallen!” If you are anything like me, our look at history may cause you to see that we have fallen even further than we thought.
In Christ -
John
Soli Deo Gloria
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Have you ever seen Braveheart - those are the highlanders. Pretty mean dudes, even compared to bears and tigers and maybe devils. My question is why would a team be named after the army of hell? ...but I digress.
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