In one of the most bizarre stories of the week...
In 1980, an anonymous man showed up at a monument maker in rural Georgia with plans to create a Stonehenge-like monument. The monument, known as the
Georgia Guidestones, was intended to be a guide for future Americans who survived a future annihilation event.
According to Wikipedia, "The monument's creators believed that there was going to be an upcoming social, nuclear, or economic calamity and they wanted the monument to serve as a guide for humanity in the world which would exist after it."
The stones had interesting astrological features and were aligned with certain features in the night sky. The tablets were engraved with English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit and Ancient Egyptian. The mysterious man who had the guidestones built bought the land and then deeded everything over to Elbert county, where they are located. The monument, now owned by the county, became a tourist attraction.
That's
not the weirdest part.
In the past few years, the crazy Christians have become obsessed with the Guidestones. They have been on a campaign to have the county remove them, saying that "promoted domestic terrorism", or were "Satanic" and said the stones supported "genocide of the world population". A pastor from a nearby county showed up at a meeting of the county board and said, "This monument that is in Elbert County advocates the killing of 6.5 billion people".
Last week, someone put a bomb on the Guidestones and blew them up. The county was forced to demolish the monument since it was now unsafe.
Critics called on county to demolish Georgia Guidestones before bombing [Atlanta Journal Constitution]
So far, no one is describing the event as an act of "domestic terrorism", even though it was a bombing of publicly owned property. However, if it were Muslim extremists instead of Christian extremists who blew up a public monument, the FBI would have been called and the story would have been all over the national news. Instead, outside of Georgia, there wasn't much coverage of the story.
It's probably a statement on the state of the deplorables that a monument that was built to guide future people in rebuilding society after a cataclysmic event were blown up by conspiracy theorists in the year 2022.
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