Concordia Cemetery in El Paso, Texas
60,000 graves and a great deal of history is contained in Concordia Cemetery in El Paso, Texas. It is also a Texas State Historical Site.
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Studying and knowing about our past is good for society. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." This old cemetery in Central El Paso is also the sacred resting place for a lot of people’s dead relatives and loved-ones. No civilized person should desecrate a ceremony to bury one’s child or one’s parents. In America as in most other parts of the world, it is expected that one will demonstrate proper respect for the dead and their resting place.
The intellectual concept of historical study and the showing of appropriate respect for the dead are incompatible with the legitimization of “the paranormal.” Concepts like ghosts, telepathy, flying saucers, astrology, witches, and communication with the dead belong in a circus side show or a comic book convention; not in a sacred and historical place like this wonderful old cemetery. The Concordia group hosting Ghost Tours is inappropriate and constitutes a desecration of this sacred site.
The Concordia Cemetery group in El Paso continues to allow a group of paranormal freaks to use its name and logo. While this does raise the status of the paranormal weirdoes it is causing serious long term damage to the Concordia group. I have heard the excuse expressed that these paranormal people raise some money for the Concordia group. Would the Concordia group’s leadership also welcome fundraising activities from the drug cartels in Juarez, the Hells Angels, or a neo-nazi political group?
I would have expected the leadership of the Concordia group to immediately realize this complete incompatibility and never to have allowed their logo or name to be co-opted by a group of paranormals. I am disappointed and saddened.
I do not choose to be associated in any way with these kinds of people, so I am tendering my resignation from the Concordia Cemetery group with immediate effect.
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