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Who comissioned the geogia guide stones?
The pseudonym 'R.C. Christian' was almost certainly a cover for Herbert Kersten, a Fort Dodge, Iowa resident with documented ties to the American eugenics movement. Kersten maintained extensive correspondence with William Shockley, the leading figure of mid-20th century American eugenics. The monument's first commandment — limiting humanity to 500 million — reads less like spiritual wisdom and more like a eugenicist manifesto in granite. No arrests have ever been made for the 2022 bombing.
Evidence
- According to investigative reporting by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Lawfare Media, the man behind the R.C. Christian pseudonym has been identified as Herbert Kersten of Fort Dodge, Iowa — an avowed eugenicist and supporter of William Shockley, who led the American Eugenicist movement.
- Kersten approached Elberton Granite Finishing Company president Joe H. Fendley Sr. in June 1979, arriving with a silver-painted wooden model and precise construction plans.
- Researcher Van Smith was among the first to publicly finger Kersten, publishing an analysis of the pseudonym 'R.C. Christian' as a possible Rosicrucian reference — the initials echoing 'Christian Rosenkreuz,' the mythical founder of Rosicrucianism.
- The group Kersten claimed to represent had allegedly been planning the monument for twenty years before 1979, suggesting an organized ideological network rather than a lone eccentric.
- Extensive correspondence between Kersten and Shockley has been cited as corroborating evidence.