There is a lot of talk these days about cancel culture. If society identifies a flaw in a historical figure, they choose to erase them from history rather than learn from their mistake through the science of critical thinking. Rather than understand the individual is not a two dimensional image but nuanced with positive and negative traits, they choose to just cancel them as if they did not exist altogether. This type of thinking forfeits the good while not constructively learning from the bad dooming themselves to repeat the tendencies of history. This is why history is worth the investment to learn it. Because if we properly understand history, both the good and the bad, we can derive from the past, the insights that can help us to achieve a better future. This is also why biblical history is important. A chapter like 2 Kings 24 is steeped in Jewish history, but we learn some things about God and about ourselves through the recounting of these events.
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