ROBERTSON \u2013 Die obelisk wat oor die Van der Merwe-gedenksteen voor die NG Moederkerk troon, is glo \u201cseksueel offensief\u201d.<\/p>\n
Die gedenksteen gaan dus om di\u00e9 rede verskuif word waarna die obelisk verwyder gaan word.<\/p>\n
Ds. Janlu Kuyler, leraar van die NG Moederkerk, wou nie veel uitbrei oor die redes agter die verskuiwing nie. <\/p>\n
Kuyler s\u00ea: \u201cDie kerkraad van Robertson Moedergemeente bevestig dat ons \u2019n besluit geneem het om die gedenksteen te verskuif.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns het \u2019n deursigtige proses binne die kerkraad, die gemeente en die Van der Merwe-familie gevolg. Ons het geen verdere kommentaar te lewer nie.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2019n Petisie wat die verskuiwing van die gedenksteen en verwydering van die obelisk teenstaan, het teen Dinsdag reeds talle name bevat. <\/p>\n
Dianne Coetzee, \u2019n jare lange lidmaat van die kerk wat ook gekant is teen die verskuiwing van die gedenksteen, het verlede week hieroor na Standard Breederivier Gazette<\/span> uitgereik. <\/p>\n \u201cDie gedenksteen met die obelisk staan nou al 96 jaar voor die kerk. Oor die dekades heen het niemand nog die obelisk bo-op die gedenksteen as seksueel offensief beskou nie. <\/p>\n \u201cOp die kerkterrein is predikante begrawe met grafstene wat obelisks op het. Hulle kan dan mos sommer die hele begraafplaas afbreek.\u201d <\/p>\n Volgens Coetzee word beweer die obelisk \u201chou mense uit die kerk\u201d. <\/p>\n \u201cDis onsin. Die kerk is al die jare nog stampvol. Dink net hoeveel mense hulle sal kan kos gee met die geld wat hulle wil gebruik om die gedenksteen te skuif.\u201d<\/p>\n Mike Lacroix, \u2019n inwoner wat ook gekant is teen die verskuiwing, s\u00ea dit is belaglik dat die obelisk as seksueel offensief beskou word. <\/p>\n \u201cDis malligheid. Ek kan nie dink dat mense so kleinsielig is dat hulle so iets in \u2019n gedenksteen raaksien nie. As dit is soos hulle dink, moet hulle al wat graf en kerktoring met obelisks is, ook tot niet maak.\u201d<\/p>\n Zack Julies, outeur van die petisie, s\u00ea by navraag: \u201cEk dink die redenasie agter die verskuiwing van die Van der Merwe-gedenksteen is beide belaglik en gevaarlik. <\/p>\n \u201cDie dorp se geskiedenis word geskend om die politieke ideologie van \u2019n paar mense te pas wat ironies genoeg vandag baat vind by ds. H.P. van der Merwe se harde werk en nalatenskap. \u201cOns moet waninlingting in alle vorme bekamp en ons erfenis beskerm.\u201d<\/p>\n Die raadslid Craig Steyn van die Langeberg-munisipaliteit verduidelik in \u2019n brief aan Coetzee: \u201cDie obelisk het \u2019n lang geskiedenis wat nie van sy simboliese betekenis geskei kan word nie. <\/p>\n \u201cSy oorsprong in antieke Egipte is diep gekoppel aan die songod Ra, en dit is beskou as \u2019n kanaal tussen die hemel en die aarde, wat goddelike krag en ewige lewe beliggaam. <\/p>\n \u201cDie obelisk het egter ook \u2019n ander laag simboliek wat verband hou met vrugbaarheid en veral manlike generatiewe krag. Hierdie falliese simboliek was \u2019n hoeksteen van die interpretasie daarvan in beide antieke en moderne kontekste. Om bloot te stel dat dit gebou is vir sy argitektoniese styl volgens die tydperk, is skaars akkuraat. \u201cJy kan dit nie van sy aangehegte simboliek skei nie \u2013 stap verby \u2019n swastika en s\u00ea vir jouself dit is bloot vir versiering. <\/p>\n \u201cEk sou ook nie wou h\u00ea dat hierdie struktuur weens die aard van die struktuur op enige van my troufoto\u2019s moet wees nie.\u201d<\/p>\n Luidens die brief het die Vrymesse\u00adlaars lank reeds die obelisk as simbool in sy argitektoniese en filoso\u00adfiese tra\u00addisies gebruik. Die obelisk se Vrymes\u00adselaarsimboliek weerspie\u00ebl dikwels idees van verligting, kennis en die stre\u00adwe na morele en geestelike verheffing. <\/p>\n Dit dra egter ook by om sy ouer, meer antieke betekenisse te dra, insluitend sy voorstelling van manlike krag en vrugbaarheid. Hierdie gelaagde betekenisse maak dit \u2019n komplekse simbool in enige konteks.<\/p>\n Dit is belangrik om die obelisk se komplekse rol binne die Christendom te oorweeg. Terwyl vroe\u00eb Christene in die Romeinse Ryk obeliske aangeneem het en hulle herbruik het om hul heerskappy oor heidendom te demonstreer, het die struktuur nooit sy heidense wortels ten volle afgeskud nie. Keiser Konstantyn het byvoorbeeld verskeie obeliske van Egipte na Rome geneem as deel van sy kerstenings\u00adpogings, maar hierdie monumente het steeds hul assosiasies met die Egiptiese heidendom gedra. 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