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ELBERTON, Georgia (LifeSiteNews) — The “Georgia Guidestones” monument, which has drawn criticism for its anti-life inscriptions about population control and references to humans being a “cancer on the Earth,” was partially destroyed by an explosion on Wednesday.
“Investigators said unknown people detonated an explosive device at around 4 a.m.,” reported Fox 5 Atlanta, adding that no one was injured in the incident.
Footage of the aftermath shows rubble surrounding the now-battered monument, with one of the four pillars of the structure completely missing.
Christopher Kubas, executive vice president of the Elberton Granite Association whose organization is in part tasked with the preservation of the controversial monument, told Fox 5 Atlanta that the Guidestones have long been the target of vandals due to the messages inscribed on the stones that many deem “offensive.”
Included in the inscriptions are: a call for the creation of a “world court;” a demand that humans “be not a cancer on the Earth;” a command
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