{"id":2666426,"date":"2026-09-21T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-libs-destroyed-dozens-of-historic-american-statues-but-heres-one-theyre-fine-with-a-90-pagan-god-in-the-middle-of-texas\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:47:21","slug":"video-libs-destroyed-dozens-of-historic-american-statues-but-heres-one-theyre-fine-with-a-90-pagan-god-in-the-middle-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-libs-destroyed-dozens-of-historic-american-statues-but-heres-one-theyre-fine-with-a-90-pagan-god-in-the-middle-of-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Libs Destroyed Dozens of Historic American Statues, but Here\u2019s One They\u2019re Fine With: A 90&#8242; Pagan God in the Middle of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">46<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-libs-destroyed-dozens-of-historic-american-statues-but-heres-one-theyre-fine-with-a-90-pagan-god-in-the-middle-of-texas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2666426&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the removal of Confederate monuments following 2015, with many statues of figures like Columbus, Washington, Grant, and Roosevelt being vandalized, dumped, or stored. It highlights a cultural shift where honoring certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-school-board-president-critics-of-decision-to-rename-schools-undermining-anti-racism\/\" title=\"San Francisco School Board President: Critics Of Decision To Rename Schools \u2018Undermining Anti-Racism\u2019\">historical figures<\/a> became controversial, and instead, new monuments, such as a 90-foot statue of the Hindu deity Hanuman in Texas, are erected-symbolizing a move towards pagan symbols. The piece argues that the removal of american historical monuments signifies an attack on national history and identity, framing it as part of a broader effort too diminish Christian and classical influences in favor of pagan and alternative religious icons. It suggests that these actions are part of a purposeful agenda to rewrite history, replacing foundational figures with symbols that challenge customary values while accusing the cultural left of seeking to destroy the core of American Christian-based identity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Confederate memorials came down by the hundreds after 2015. Columbus statues were beheaded, dumped in harbors, or trucked into storage. Even Washington, Grant, and Roosevelt took hits in the same campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Speak up and you were the villain. The official line was that monuments to our heroes are optional and the country is only an \u201cidea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What went up instead is now looping again on X.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2024, Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple in Fort Bend County, Texas, dedicated a 90-foot, 90-ton statue of the Hindu deity Hanuman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/religion\/2024\/08\/26\/497628\/sugar-land-area-hindu-temple-now-home-to-third-largest-statue-in-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Public Media<\/a> reported it as the third-largest statue in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The figure is a man with a monkey\u2019s face, palms out. Parts were manufactured in China, shipped here, and assembled on site. Organizers call it the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/religion\/2024\/08\/26\/497628\/sugar-land-area-hindu-temple-now-home-to-third-largest-statue-in-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statue of Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Temple leaders said 90 is an \u201causpicious number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The clip is two years old. It\u2019s spreading again now. If you have not seen it, plenty of readers have not either.<\/p>\n<p>Old Stock Appalachian posted the video and tied the new idol to the old demolitions. Lee first, then the founding fathers, then the claim that America is merely an abstraction while pagan monuments rise.<\/p>\n<p>That contrast is the story.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">They tore down Robert E. Lee and told you speaking up made you a Nazi.<\/p>\n<p>Then came Washington. Grant. Teddy Roosevelt. What, you support enslavers and racists?<\/p>\n<p>Now they erect pagan gods while telling you America is merely an \u201cidea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Your monuments fall, your history is rewritten, your culture is mocked\u2026and you\u2019re still expected to say nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Stay quiet, you racist.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Old Stock Appalachian \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@TheAmRev) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheAmRev\/status\/2099476381784477991?\">September 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  About 95 percent of Hindus are Indian. This was not a Swedish civic project. Fine. Name it.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel 3:1 is harder to shrug off. Nebuchadnezzar set up a gold image sixty cubits high \u2014 which is about 90 feet. That\u2019s the same height as the Sugar Land statue.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnny-depp-might-have-won-his-defamation-case-but-hes-still-no-hero\/\" title=\"Johnny Depp Might Have Won His Defamation Case, But He\u2019s Still No Hero\">public idol<\/a> and a demand to bow. You do not have to strain the text. The numbers are there.<\/p>\n<p>The left did not declare war on statues. It declared war on American statues.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Milk still gets honored. The Haymarket Martyrs\u2019 Monument still stands. John Brown still gets the halo in the right ZIP codes. Perverts, terrorists, and approved rebels keep their stone.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is the problem. A nine-story pagan image is \u201cfaith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is the point.<\/p>\n<p>America is being moved from Christian to pagan. The founders knew a republic could lose its religion. They just could not picture Christianity losing here. That was one of their few real lapses.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the cultural left wants.<\/p>\n<p>Orwell had it: the surest way to destroy a people is to destroy their history.<\/p>\n<p>Pull down the founders. Mock the saints. If the replacements are false gods, so much the better. They already despise the Bible, the church, and Christ.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s already spread to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Americans also have to look hard at which pieces of the small-l liberal settlement still work when Christianity, one of the republic\u2019s load-bearing walls, is under open displacement.<\/p>\n<p>If the experiment cannot survive the demolition of that wall, we do not shrug and call it progress. We protect the wall.<\/p>\n<p>The American experiment is not a suicide pact. The core must be kept. Christianity is not an add-on to that core. It is part of it.<\/p>\n<p>They said the old monuments had to go because history hurts. 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