Historical Revisionism

History is the story of millions who lived out lives that are now held in this great vault called 'history.'  It is their legacy.  It is the declaration of the fact that they lived and it is a careful summation of what they did with their lives.  History is also the thing that instructs millions of us today.  It is the thing that shows us how to avoid the devastation experienced by those who went before us and how to repeat the successes that were theirs as well.  As such, history is powerful, history is immense, and history is sacred.

Yet, if it does not align with our agenda or if it opposes it altogether, we rewrite it.  We take unwarranted liberties with this precious thing that speaks to the lives that have gone before us and we alter it.  We perpetrate the abuses as greedy people who demand that history fall in line or history will fall to the editing pencil of our agendas.  Such abuses are certain to find us out if we don't snuff them out.