#claiming a pass because of cultural proximity to christianity

[papirouge]

Israel is an example of a minority group overcoming discrimination by arab states those palestinians left gambling on the idea that they would return to a land free of jews , they thought wrong maybe you'd be less mad if this minority group wasn't white adjacent and western affiliated

"israel is an example of minority group overcoming discrimination by Arab state"

LMAO what kind of clown revisionism crap is that? Jews for most of their history have been discriminated, brutalized and genocided by.....WHITE EUROPEANS. I'll never understand how Zionist Jews flaunt belonging to a "4000 years old civilization" but are struck by Alzheimer's when it comes to acknowledge that their biggest oppressor throughout their most recent history have been White/not Arab, and that they've been kicked out of European countries FOR CENTURIES by some same western countries people like you are shilling their proximity from to milk some wack "you hate jews bc they're close to whiteness uwu". Deranged.

Aren't Jews hellbent saying they're not White anyway ? So why are you shoe horning their proximity to whiteness to claim some snowflake oppression complex?

I will never understand how Zionist are willing to give pass to all the European countries that actually oppressed Jews, only to accuse every Arab person of hating Jews when their cardinal crime was to.....not give away part of their land for a foreign settler project called "Zionism"?? The cognitive dissonance is staggering.

And Jewish people aren't a minority group in ISRAEL, genius. wth are you talking about? Their experience has nothing to do with diasporic Jews spread accross the world. Or do you see Palestinians being bombed and see a "discriminated minority group" because diasporic Palestinians are also a minority too? or you're just a racist who's only willing to extend your grace to a few chosen people ? (pun intended)

Israel lost the last shred of benevolence it has left the few weeks after October 7, and it can only blame itself. Not the Arabs, or some anti white (proximity) oppression. Get real.

I'm no friend to Muslim Arab country but if anything they've shown a lot of patience and resilience before Israel provocations and brute force. Jewish brag about their sense of fellowship but just you wait before the Arab umma strikes back for good and bites Israel butt.

If anything, the only people being mad are people like you popping on randos inbox preaching your zionist propaganda because you know you're losing. You lost the cultural war. You guys got so desperate you spread the fake news it was bots but nope, the world is really that tired of you lol.

Israel will never win. Isral never managed to eradicate Hamas and never will. Israel was supposed to ve a haven for Jews around the world and yet it didn't stop October from happening 7. The Zionist project is inherently flawed because establishing a Jewish state de facto puts Jews at a bigger danger for "anti jew" attacks. For alleged "God chosen people" there's something very ironic with them unable to conquer a strip of land with people not even having an army to put up against them. I'm Christian and I can't help connecting the dots but hey, Jews have been unable to recognize Jesus as the Messiah so it's not like they were the most sensible people to prophetic clues ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Israel gambled on the idea that the world would let them do anything they was in Gaza by pulling out the antisemitism card. It's not working anymore. The whole world sides with Palestine. It would've been unthinkable to see "Fuck Israel" trending a year ago. YOU did it. So congratulations for playing yourself.

#answered

[omniversalobservations]

The Simulated Multiverse (2021)

Virk: In this book I ended up going back and revisiting what Philip K. Dick was saying. There’s the famous quote, that we live in a simulated reality, a computer program reality, back in the ‘70s, but there was a second part of that quote that gets ignored a lot of times. He said that if we changed variables, we would have the impression that we were living the same events again and again, as if we were saying the same things.

I went back and interviewed his wife, Tessa, and found that he was really saying that we live in a universe that is not just a computer program, but that somebody is messing with these variables all the time. It’s resulting in different timelines. His book The Man in the High Castle, which was a recent Amazon series, he claimed that it was a timeline that he remembered actually happening, as opposed to a thing that he just made up. He believed that whoever was running the simulation rewound and then reran it again with different variables to see what it would be like.

That was part of the impetus for writing this new book, looking at this from a science fiction point of view to say, “Could this really be happening? What does science say about it? Is there other evidence of people remembering other timelines and things happening differently?” And from the video game perspective, how would we actually build something like that? Taking a look into that. That’s what the new book is all about.

GamesBeat: One thing that was interesting about Rodney’s film was the whole Matrix defense. I wondered how much you looked at that part of the problem. A lot of this is great fun to theorize about, but there are people who take it too seriously.

Virk: That’s true. I can’t say I looked into it as much as he has. He spent time talking to the guy who shot his parents. As I understand it, the Matrix defense wasn’t necessarily successful in a legal sense. But it was used. I look at the flip side of that, which is that people have been theorizing something like this for a long time. It’s not just a recent phenomenon, this idea that the world around us isn’t the real world. Most major religions have said basically the same thing. Both the western traditions, Christianity and Judaism, as well as eastern religions like Hinduism. They’ve been telling us that the world is Maya, that it’s an illusion, and that somebody is watching and recording it. In the Islamic traditions you have very specific angels whose job it is to record every little thing you do and put it in the scroll of deeds.

You can use the argument, and religions do, that this tells you to behave differently, because most of the morality of the world’s religions comes from this idea that we are being watched and everything we do is important to how things will turn out after this particular run of the game ends. In the eastern traditions you go back, of course. You have another life. But that’s an aspect that I explored pretty thoroughly in the previous book and a bit in this one as well. You can take it in different directions. It doesn’t by itself necessarily mean you’re just going to get crazy people going off. In another way you can say it means you need to take your actions more seriously, because those actions will have repercussions.

GamesBeat: It feels like simulation theory has also broken into the mainstream with things like Marvel’s movies, like Avengers Endgame.

Virk: Yeah, the idea that it’s not just a simulated universe, but that there are multiple timelines. I like to use the point that, as popular culture catches up with science, you start to see a proliferation. Things pass what I call the 10-year-old test. If you go back to the 20th century, the idea that there were other planets, other solar systems, wasn’t that normal. But then everybody became comfortable with it when you had superheroes like Superman. You’d explain that they’re from another planet. Kids found that to be not a problem, even though parents might have thought it was kind of weird at the time.

Now my 10-year-old nephews are talking about a multiverse with superheroes. The superheroes come not just from another planet, but another version of the universe. It’s become very common with things like the Arrowverse and the Flash, and now with Loki, where they actually have diagrams where they’re watching it. That’s similar to what I talk about in this book, the idea that you have these branching timelines going in different directions. The public is becoming more comfortable with this idea of the quantum multiverse, which is where the science comes from, all from quantum mechanics. You have the idea that every time we make a decision, it spawns off another parallel timeline or parallel universe.

When I looked into it even more, it turns out that it’s not just about possible parallel futures. There’s something called a delayed choice experiment. I don’t know if you’re familiar with that one. The best way to explain it, consider a distant quasar that’s, say, a billion light-years away. Suppose light is coming to us from there and there’s a black hole or galaxy, some gravitationally large object, in between. Let’s say that’s only a million light-years away from us. The light has to go to the left or to the right. It has to make a choice. We can measure whether particular photons went this way or that.

What the delayed choice experiment tells us is that even though the choice had to be made a million years ago when that light went to the left or right of that galaxy or black hole, it’s not until we measure it now that the choice is actually made. Now we’re saying there are actually multiple possible paths in addition to possible futures. Even Schrodinger, who didn’t like the idea of the collapse of probability waves, he called them multiple simultaneous histories. That was back in the ‘40s, even before Hugh Everett came up with the many worlds theory, which was in the ‘60s.

This idea was very intriguing to me. It said that physics–the simulation hypothesis is telling us that space isn’t what we think it is. It’s actually pixels. Then quantum mechanics is telling us that time isn’t what we think it is. The past and the future are very different. If you put this all together, how do you bring this together? It turns out that computer games and this idea that we have a game state that has all the bits in the world encapsulated into it, that’s a good way to think about the present moment in time. It’s just a series of bits that are being rendered. What we call these possible futures are different changes to those bits.

Moving forward and then moving past, when we say there are multiple pasts, they’re all like different nodes in the graph. I call that the multiverse graph, which is a new model based on a bunch of stuff that’s out there that I introduced in this book. That way you can think of nodes of game states as all the possible places that you could end up in your game. Kind of like the old adventure games, like a Zork, where you have a little map of the rooms. This is every place I can go. I can go north or south and get there. If you think of that on a big scale–let’s say there’s 10 to the 80th power particles in the universe or whatever the number is. You have that many bits. Each game state is a variation of those bits. You have a whole bunch of nodes, and what we call time is how we go through those nodes.

From the point of view of video games, it’s just like running, saving a game state, and rerunning that game again to see what would happen. You’re running simulations to see what might happen within that. That’s one of the models that we came up with here.

GamesBeat: What are some of the terms that you use here, like the Mandela Effect?

Virk: The Mandela Effect is this weird effect where some people, a subset of people, remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the ‘80s or early ‘90s. Of course that didn’t happen in our timeline. He got out of prison, went and became president of South Africa, and then he died in 2013. So many people remembered things like this. It turns out that wasn’t the only one. A number of people remember the tank guy in Tiananmen Square being killed. They remember talking about it with people. But in our reality that didn’t happen. The tank didn’t actually run him over.

It turns out there’s a whole bunch of these events. Some of them are small, like the spelling of Jiffy peanut butter. There’s no such thing. There’s only Jif. Logos get a lot of attention, or the Berenstain Bears versus the Bernstein Bears. There’s a lot of that online, and scientists tend to dismiss it, as I did originally when I first heard about it. It’s just faulty memory, right? But when you get into bigger things, events that people remember having conversations about, like Jewish families asking why these bears are Jewish because it’s spelled “-stein,” but it turns out it’s not spelled that, so why didn’t an adult correct them to say it’s not spelled in a Jewish way? Or a woman who remembers going to see Nelson Mandela in prison, but finding she couldn’t because he was ill, and then she came back and he’d died a few weeks later. It’s what I call proximity.

Anyway, the Mandela Effect by itself, many scientists don’t believe in it, but I said in this book, “Well, what if they’re actually remembering, like Philip K. Dick said, these alternate timelines?” What if they’re remembering a slightly different path through this multiverse? Then I found out that quantum physics doesn’t disallow that. It allows this idea of remembering different pasts, and then you get entangled within groups and you create new timelines. That’s why the Mandela Effect was included, because it’s a fun, colorful way to talk about this idea of multiple pasts in addition to multiple futures.

The other one is quantum computing. There was a scientist at Oxford named David Deutsch. Before they had physical quantum computers, he had this idea that quantum computers could break modern cryptography, RSA cryptography or SHA-256. The question is, how could that happen? You would need to do more calculations than there are atoms in the universe. But there’s an algorithm called Shor’s Algorithm that can do it pretty quickly. He theorized that what was happening was you were actually using the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics. You take your qubits, you give them all the possible values, zero and one, and each of those is a different universe. They all compute simultaneously and you figure out the one you want.

That’s one way to think about quantum computing, which is the multiverse way. It’s one that’s a legitimate interpretation. But what happens to those other universes when you’re computing? It turns out that if you’re doing a computation, you run your code and you discard those. They end up in a garbage collection. What if that is what’s happening with time itself? What if we’re trying out different possible paths, and then we figure out the ones that are the most optimal? Kind of like a game would, or an AI would. We’re using this mechanism and then when we come back, what if there’s little glitches? You come back to the glitch in the Matrix. Some people are remembering some of those possible paths while other people are remembering other possible paths.

You can define quantum computing almost as a kind of search. I came up with the second term for this book, which I call the core loop. It’s operating on the multiverse graph. You can tell I’m a computer scientist from that. I think in terms of depth-first searches or breadth-first searches of a series of nodes. What if, just like an AI does in a game, we’re saying, what are the possible paths we can take from here? Then we try those out and play the game to that point. We save the results and come back and move forward. That’s how I came up with that idea and why I included quantum computing, because it’s fundamental.

Source: VentureBeat

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#books #multiverse #many worlds #The Man in the High Castle #The Mandela Effect

[thegreenwolf]

[I know this is a long one, and potentially controversial. Do me a favor, please and read all the way to the end, and pay especial attention to the italicized bits? Thank you!]

Celtic Wicca. Samhain, the God of the Dead. Witches’ covens that extend back in an unbroken line thousands of years. These are just a few examples of the really bad history that’s been passed around the pagan community, and which has rightfully been skewered by those who have done better research. I came to paganism in the mid-1990s when Wicca was all the rage, and everything was plastered with Celtic knotwork. The Craft, Charmed and other media helped bolster support for aesthetic paganism that was more about looks than substance. A glut of books hit the market, many of which were full of historical inaccuracies from the mildly off to the blatantly awful.

Pagans with a decent background in history began to tear apart the inaccurate material, some of which had been floating around for decades (I’m looking at you, Margaret Murray!) We encouraged each other to go beyond strictly pagan books and explore historical texts, both those written for laypeople and more academic texts. We cited our sources more. And so now, twenty years later, while paganism still has its share of bad history, we have a lot more accurate information to apply to our paths, whether we’re hardcore reconstructionists or not. And we have space for things that aren’t necessarily historically accurate, but which we find personally relevant, like Unverified Personal Gnosis, or UPG (which you can read more about here.)

All this came out of a lot of discussions, along with debates and arguments. Post bad history in a busy pagan listserve circa 2000, and you were bound to get dozens of responses correcting you and offering good research material. And today wrong historical information is still swiftly corrected. What boggles my mind is that a lot of the same people who will throw down over historical inaccuracies won’t bat an eye when someone horribly misuses science. Woe be unto anyone who tries to say that Artemis and Freya are just different faces of the same Great Goddess, but sure, we can say that quantum entanglement proves magick is real without a doubt. Whatevs, it’s your belief, right?

In Defense of Facts

Wrong. Just as history deals in facts, so does science. Yes, there’s room for errors (accidental and deliberate) and updated research, but that doesn’t negate the general tendency of both of these fields of study and practice to deal in the most accurate information we have available to us. We’ve gotten good at pointing out where pagans are over-reaching historically through speculation and UPG. We suck at doing so for those speculating beyond what science has demonstrated to be true or impossible. It’s the same error at play: when history or science don’t have a clear answer–or the answer that you want–you don’t get to just make up whatever you want and say that it’s equally real.

Lots of anecdotes do not equal “anecdata”. No matter how much you really, really, really want to believe that you can make streetlights turn off just by walking under them, the evidence we do have is pointing toward it just being an occasionally blinking streetlight and good timing. It’s also confirmation bias in that you’re seeing what you want to see and that affects your “results”. No one has yet created a substantial, well-crafted study that even remotely suggests a person can affect the electrical flow to a light bulb (other than by physically tampering with the wires, unscrewing the bulb or turning off the power.) A group of people walking back and forth under a streetlight does not a solid experiment make.

Yet paganism is full to the brim with people claiming they can do similarly supernatural things. Look at the proliferation of spells that claim to be able to aid in healing, take away curses, or even affect political outcomes. That’s saying that “If I burn this candle or bury this herbal sachet or say these words over here, that thing or person or situation wayyyy over there will be directly affected in the way I want it to.” Sure, your process was more elaborate than just walking in proximity of your target, but you have no more evidence of causation than that other guy. And look at how many pagans claim that a simple spell is every bit as effective as a complicated one. Doesn’t it follow, then, that the simplest spell–walking under the light with the intent of making it blink off–has every bit the chance of working as something more complex?

Why We Treat Science Differently

But that’s getting away from the point. I think we don’t want to be sticklers for science in the same way that we’re sticklers for history because we don’t want our sacred cows slaughtered. Our beliefs can still hold up when we question historical inaccuracies because many modern pagan beliefs are based in history, and better history means better justification for our beliefs because “our ancestors believed it!”

But many of our beliefs are also based in pseudoscience, as well as bad interpretations of good science (like the misapplication of quantum anything to trying to prove magick is objectively real). When we start picking apart the scientific inaccuracies in our paths, it feels threatening and uncomfortable. If you feel a sense of control because you literally believe that a spell you cast will change a situation you’re anxious about, then you don’t want to question the efficacy of that act because you feel you’ve lost control again. If your connection to nature is primarily through thinking the local animals show up in your yard because you have special animal-attracting energy, the fact that they’re more likely just looking for food, shelter, and other normal animal things makes you feel less inherently connected. So instead of focusing on aligning our paths more closely with scientific research as well as historical research, we instead cling tightly to justifications.

The Rewards of Accuracy

I think that pressing for more historical accuracy has made paganism stronger as a whole, both as individuals and as a community. We’ve spent decades working to be taken more seriously as a religious group, sometimes to gain big steps forward like equal recognition for our deceased military pagans, other times to just be able to mention our religion without being laughed at. Those who want to emphasize to non-pagans that our paths have historical precedent and long-time relevance have more resources to do so. There are other benefits: Those who want to emulate the ways of pre-Christian religions have more material to work with. And history offers more depth to explore; your interest in a particular ancient spiritual path can extend out into knowing more about the culture, people and landscape that that path developed in. If you’re creating a new path for the 21st century, you have more inspiration to work with when you see what’s worked for pagan religions in both the distant and recent past.

Science has a lot to offer us as well. As a naturalist pagan–and a pagan naturalist–my path is deepened, and I find greater meaning, the more I learn about and experience the non-human natural world. I don’t need to believe the blacktail deer outside my studio are there because they have some special message for me. It’s enough that I can observe them quietly from the window as they go about their lives, our paths intersecting by proximity. I do not need to drink water from their hoofprints to attempt to gain shapeshifting powers; I can imagine a bit of what it is to be them when I follow their trails through the pines and see the places that are important to them. And that makes me even more invested in protecting their fragile ecosystem; my path urges me to give back to nature.

When pagans step out of the narrow confines of symbolism, and act as though nature is sacred because we know how threatened it is through the science of ecology, not only do we deepen our connections to nature, but we also show the rest of the world that we walk our talk. It’s just one way in which we demonstrate that, as with our historical accuracy, we’re also interested in scientific accuracy, rather than denying or ignoring facts in favor of our own spiritual self-satisfaction. And rather than getting entangled in self-centered interpretations of nature that elevate us as the special beings deserving of nature’s messages, a more scientific approach to paganism humbles us and reminds us that we are just one tiny part of a vast, beautiful, unimaginably complex world full of natural wonders that science can help us better explore and understand.

Conclusion

As always, I’m not saying don’t have beliefs. Beliefs have plenty of good effects, from strengthening social bonds to bringing us comfort when things go haywire to helping us make some subjective sense of the world through storytelling and mythos. UPG can be a really valuable tool in giving us a place to put the things we believe that don’t fit into known historical research, and I think we need to extend it to hold beliefs that go outside known scientific evidence, too. So keep working your spells and your rituals, and keep working with the deities and spirits that you hold dear. If you derive personal meaning by feeling that the crows are nearby because of some spiritually significant reason and it improves your life, don’t let go of that, so long as you also accept that the crows are just crows doing crow things.

But we also need to be able to make use of critical thinking skills and suss out areas where we’re factually wrong, no matter how we may personally feel about the matter. That way, as with history, we’re able to clearly say “This is the portion of my belief system that matches up with known facts, and this part over here is more personal.” We’ve learned to be skeptical of the claims of people who say that historians are wrong and they have the REAL history; we should be able to do the same for those who claim to know better than thousands of scientists.

What I am also asking you to do is really question your beliefs, their foundations, and where they intersect with and diverge from science (and history, while we’re at it.) If you have a belief that runs directly counter to known facts and you feel it has to be every bit as real as science or history, ask yourself why. What would happen if you allowed that belief to be UPG, or personal mythology? What would happen if you let it go entirely? What would you have left, and what value does it have?

I can’t say where this process of questioning will take you, whether you’ll let go of your beliefs, or recategorize their place in your life, or just cling to them more tightly. Every person’s path winds in its own direction. But just as we have questioned our historical inaccuracies and come out the better for it, I think that as individuals and as a community we can benefit from really questioning scientific inaccuracies in the same way. Won’t you join me in this effort?

If you enjoyed this post, please consider picking up a copy of one of my books, which blend a naturalist’s approach to the world with pagan meaning and mythology–Nature Spirituality From the Ground Up is especially relevant!

#pagan #paganism #UPG #science #Wicca #mine

[alysaalban]

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Does Reiki Give You Energy

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[maxwellyjordan]

Symposium: A monumental decision?

Andrée Sophia Blumstein is the solicitor general of Tennessee, which joined 29 other states in an amicus brief in support of the constitutionality of the cross in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association.

States have long been in an unenviable position when it comes to deciding (1) whether to erect or maintain monuments with religious imagery on public property and (2) whether and how to defend establishment clause challenges to such monuments. The stakes are high; decisions like these can, of course, be politically costly, and a legally questionable decision will almost always result in expensive and exhausting litigation.

The difficulty comes from a Supreme Court establishment clause jurisprudence that has offered very little dependable guidance for the states. To one judge, it has been just “a hot mess,” and to another, in the same case, “a wilderness with misdirecting sign posts and tortuous paths.”

Much of the blame for this disarray in the law is now heaped on the establishment clause test articulated in Lemon v. Kurtzman in 1971. Indeed, Lemon has been accused of “stalking” the court’s establishment clause jurisprudence “like some ghoul in a late-night horror movie that repeatedly sits up in its grave and shuffles abroad, after being repeatedly killed and buried.” The Lemon test asks (1) whether the challenged display or action has a secular purpose; (2) whether the principal or primary effect is one that neither advances nor inhibits religion; and (3) whether the display or action fosters an excessive entanglement with religion. That test has been the very opposite of the panacea it was intended to be. And because Lemon turned out to be unworkable in many cases, motley other tests have been rolled out in addition to, or instead of Lemon — with remarkable inconsistency in application and result.    

In yesterday’s “Peace Cross” decision, the Supreme Court grappled yet again with the bedeviling questions provoked by public monuments with religious associations. There was some hope that the decision might deliver us from the wilderness — or at least usher Lemon to its final resting place.

The Peace Cross is a 40-foot tall monument erected on private land 94 years ago by the Bladensburg community in Maryland to honor 49 local soldiers who died in World War I in the cause of “liberty for the world.” The land on which the cross stands became publicly owned in 1961. The monument is, to be sure, in the form of a very large Latin cross, but it does not otherwise bear any religious message. Its adornments are a plaque dedicating the cross specifically to the fallen local veterans, the American Legion symbol, and the inscription “Valor, Endurance, Courage, and Devotion.”  It stands in proximity to other, secular war memorials.

The American Humanist Association found the giant cross offensive and challenged it as a violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit agreed that the monument failed the Lemon test; because it is in the form of a cross, is on public land and is maintained with public funds, it has “the primary effect” of endorsing Christianity and “excessively entangles” the government in religion. It had to go or be de-cruciformed.

The Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, reversed. The Peace Cross “does not violate the Establishment Clause.” It need not be removed or undergo amputation of its arms.

The plurality did not apply the Lemon test to reach this result and rejected the usefulness of that test for a particular category of establishment clause cases, i.e., challenges to established monuments, symbols and practices. But it did not abandon Lemon entirely. What remains of Lemon is not immediately clear, not even to members of the court. Justice Brett Kavanaugh is of the view that that “the Lemon test is not good law” and that the “Court no longer applies the old test articulated in Lemon.” Justice Neil Gorsuch, who would have dismissed for lack of standing, declares that Lemon was a “misadventure” and is now “shelved.” Justice Clarence Thomas, who would have overruled Lemon, believes that the plurality has only rejected Lemon’s relevance to claims like this one — although he did also join Gorsuch in his concurring opinion declaring the test to have been shelved. Thomas views coercion as the true touchstone of establishment clause inquiry. Justice Elena Kagan writes that the Lemon test is still viable and useful in some cases and that its focus on “purposes and effects is crucial in evaluating government action” with regard to monuments.

What the state and The American Legion were looking for from the Supreme Court was this “rule of decision”: “A government’s use of religious imagery in a way consistent with the Nation’s historical traditions will not run afoul of the Establishment Clause absent a showing that the government was exploiting the tradition to coerce religious belief or observance by nonadherents.”

What they got is much more nuanced, although history and tradition feature prominently. The plurality does not expressly formulate any rule, but here is what may be gleaned from the plurality opinion:

There is now a “strong presumption of constitutionality” for long-standing monuments, symbols, and practices with religious associations;

When challenged under the establishment clause, such venerable monuments, symbols and practices must be viewed and evaluated in historical context, giving consideration to factors such as (a) whether the monument or practice has taken on a secular meaning or carries a special significance aside from its religious association, (It “is surely relevant” if a monument commemorates particular individuals or has become a “symbol closely linked” to a secular event.), (b) whether the monument has become a prominent community landmark, (c) whether it has taken on historical significance, (d) whether there was discriminatory intent in its design or in the government’s decision to maintain it, and, (e) at bottom, whether the monument, symbol or practice reflects “respect and tolerance for differing views, an honest endeavor to achieve inclusivity and nondiscrimination, and a recognition of the important role that religion plays in the lives of many Americans”;

Retaining established, religiously expressive monuments, symbols and practices is “quite different from erecting new ones,” making it clear that the holding is limited to long-standing monuments, symbols and practices and that the presumption of constitutionality does not necessarily attach to new monuments; and, significantly

Destroying or defacing a monument with religious imagery that has long stood undisturbed would itself be an act of government hostility towards religion — an act inconsistent with the First Amendment ideals of neutrality, tolerance and respect.

This is a lot. But it will not deliver us from the wilderness.

State and local governments will not have it any easier in deciding whether to erect new monuments or allow new practices, since the court expressly distinguished those issues from the one it had before it. Nor will it be easier to decide whether to maintain existing monuments or practices and whether and how to defend them against establishment clause challenges. Even with the court’s “look-to-history-and-tradition” guiding principles and its deeply-considered analysis, states are left to deal with old uncertainties — and new questions. Who knows, for example, how much time is required to imbue a given monument or particular practice with historical meaning?  What does it take to be able to say that a religious symbol has become “closely linked” to a secular event or that a religious practice “reflects” respect and tolerance for differing views?

Then too, Kavanaugh has given the respondents and other objectors rather detailed directions to a different playing field — the political arena — where the states may be faced with another set of uncertainties. He wrote separately, especially to “emphasize” that, despite the court’s Peace Cross ruling, the respondents and others objecting to monuments with religious association are not without recourse. Because, according to Kavanaugh, the court’s ruling allows the state to maintain such monuments on public land, but does not require the state to do so, Kavanaugh advises that the respondents could ask the state legislature to pass a law requiring the removal of the Peace Cross or the transfer of the land to private parties. Or they may ask the state executive branch to exercise its authority, if any, to remove an offending monument. Or they may petition the state court to construe the state’s constitution to require removal of the monument. And if that petition is unsuccessful, Kavanaugh points out, the people of the state can always amend the state constitution.

But it does seem that at least one concrete message has been delivered. “A government that roams the land, tearing down monuments with religious symbolism and scrubbing away any reference to the divine” may be deemed to be “aggressively hostile to religion” — which the establishment clause forbids, just as it forbids favoring religion. And “a campaign to obliterate items with religious association may evidence hostility to religion, even if those religious associations are no longer in the forefront.” Thus, states and their attorneys are now on notice to think long and hard before they remove a long-standing monument or symbol or put an end to a long-standing practice, because, “[a]s our society becomes more and more religiously diverse, a community may preserve such monuments, symbols and practices for the sake of their historical significance or their place in a common cultural heritage.”

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