Washington Park Cemetary

Urban exploration in St. Louis, Missouri
Post Reply
User avatar
BROUSER
Chief Adviser
Chief Adviser
Posts: 6455
Joined: Fri Sep 02, 2005 3:23 pm

Re: Washington Park Cemetary

Post by BROUSER »

Jesus is supposed to be man's salvation. Before Jesus there was no salvation. So if Jesus was in fact the son of God and the human race's salvation, he's going to have to prove his credentials to all the pagans in the world. They all wanted to know. The good news was that the pagans were willing to overlook some problems of logic, and well, just basically inconsistencies in the whole story. They couldn't read, so they had to believe what the church told them. No problem. But then people started reading and trying to find personal meaning in the Bible, and started noticing these problems. And the Society of Free Thinkers was born. And then everybody started getting pissed off. Especially people who tried to use belief as a basis for logical argument when they were confronted by people who really looked at the logical argument. Jesus was a teacher. Teachers should lead by example. Therefore, we need to know about his life so we can follow his example. Women should be chaste, based on the example given by the eternal purity of Mary.
“An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescuing themselves from an inevitable social and moral catastrophe.”
― Ken Ham
User avatar
BROUSER
Chief Adviser
Chief Adviser
Posts: 6455
Joined: Fri Sep 02, 2005 3:23 pm

Re: Washington Park Cemetary

Post by BROUSER »

Jesus is supposed to be man's salvation. Before Jesus there was no salvation. So if Jesus was in fact the son of God and the human race's salvation, he's going to have to prove his credentials to all the pagans in the world. They all wanted to know. The good news was that the pagans were willing to overlook some problems of logic, and well, just basically inconsistencies in the whole story. They couldn't read, so they had to believe what the church told them. No problem. But then people started reading and trying to find personal meaning in the Bible, and started noticing these problems. And the Society of Free Thinkers was born. And then everybody started getting pissed off. Especially people who tried to use belief as a basis for logical argument when they were confronted by people who really looked at the logical argument. Jesus was a teacher. Teachers should lead by example. Therefore, we need to know about his life so we can follow his example. Women should be chaste, based on the example given by the eternal purity of Mary.
“An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescuing themselves from an inevitable social and moral catastrophe.”
― Ken Ham
User avatar
ropingk
The Roping Kid
The Roping Kid
Posts: 5870
Joined: Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:18 pm
Location: St James Missouri

Re: Washington Park Cemetary

Post by ropingk »

you do knwo that it is clearly writtine that these pages could never reviel all the saying of the christ
Sleep is a waste of time,you can sleep when you are dead
User avatar
Nicotti
The Awkward Ninja
The Awkward Ninja
Posts: 10997
Joined: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:46 pm

Re: Washington Park Cemetary

Post by Nicotti »

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/ ... id=4567665
Jennifer Colten: Higher Ground
http://www.thesheldon.org/
When: Wednesdays-Fridays, 12-5 p.m., Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and Tuesdays, 12-8 p.m. Continues through Aug. 26
Price: free admission
Back in the old days, the insanities of racism and segregation kept black people and white people out of the same graveyards. Washington Park Cemetery was for many years the largest final resting place for black St. Louis. Its proximity to Lambert St. Louis International Airport doomed it, however. Highway 70 ran through the middle of the cemetery in the 1950s, and more bodies were moved in the '90s when MetroLink tracks were laid and the airport expanded. Photographer Jennifer Colten documented the current state of the cemetery for the new multimedia exhibition Higher Ground: Honoring Washington Park Cemetery, Its People and Place. Her large-scale, color photographs are supported by historical documentation, video and oral histories (by Denise Ward-Brown) and an art installation by Dail Chambers, all toward the goal of illuminating the racial politics and tangled history behind a black cemetery’s sacrifice in the name of progress.
— Paul Friswold
Post Reply