Someone detonated a bomb at the curiosity known as the Georgia Guidestones Wednesday, forcing authorities to demolish what remained standing of the giant stone tablets that had been erected in 1980. The Guidestones were erected at the direction of a mysterious man named Robert C. Christian who paid a quarry to carve and erect the henge-like installation seven miles north of Elberton, Georgia, near the North Carolina border.
The stones featured writings in seven different languages and served as a compass, clock and calendar. The sculpture had been demonized by fundamentalist christians as a warning sign of Satanism or Pastafarianism or Veganism or somesuch nonsense they think threatens their view of the world.