Another Roadside Attraction

We were driving through middle america a few weeks ago and we saw this. A 40 foot white cross in the middle of a cornfield. I suppose it was some sort of war memorial or something. But something about it struck me as really wrong.

I'm sure it cost this small town a decent amount to build it. They chose to build this huge monument instead of building schools or hospitals or library books. So I thought what's so important about this monument that this town would decide to donate private or public money at the expense of other things?

It occurred to me that this was a picture of everything that was wrong about the last 8 years in America. We have been living in a charade of public displays of patriotism and religiosity. Hypocrisy festers when the only standard is how devoted you appear to be to God and country.

A huge aluminum cross in a cornfield does nothing to make America better. Instead it glorifies the patriotism and religiosity of the builders. What we need is authentic love of God and country and our fellow man, and not shallow gestures.