01-31-2019, 07:48 PM | #1 |
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Lee as Lt. Colonel Nicholson
I was going to reply with this to a member who asked how to respond to one of Lee's outrageous statements, but I decided to post it publicly:
You have to understand that when it got right down to things, Lee wasn't so much interested in God's true work as he was in producing his own version of perfection. Lee wasn't even really interested in people, except as a means of producing his vision. He was only interested in his iconic ideal of how things should be. This is why everything was expendable other than his view of things. Because in the end it wasn't about people and it wasn't even about God. It was about his beliefs. Lee was a lot like Lt. Colonel Nicholson in the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai. Nicholson had an unrelenting ideal of how things should be, which blinded him from his true mission in the war. His singular vision led him to produce a great work, the bridge, but that work was actually antagonistic to the real work he was supposed to be doing--resisting the Japanese--to the point that his own side had to send a squad to sabotage his work. Come to think of it, Nicholson's story is an excellent analogy of Lee. At least Nicholson's madness could be attributed to the time he spent under the hot Burma sun in his captors' "cooler." What was Lee's excuse? We will probably never know in this life. But Lee's basic error was putting his beliefs ahead of both God and people, even if in his madness he wasn't quite aware he was doing that. Religion has a way of making people crazy. Last edited by Cal; 01-31-2019 at 08:20 PM. |
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