Tombs have been broken open and heads systematically removed from statues.
Last year the Warwick commission, a comprehensive review of the creative sector, warned that arts and creativity were being "systematically removed from the UK education system".
"Information that used to be based on science," the lawmakers said, "is being systematically removed from the public when it conflicts with the administration's political agenda".
At the most divisive, the former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee asserted that violence like the Newtown shootings occurs because "we've systematically removed God from our schools".
But in this case, the blur is not random but is related to the mathematical shape of the distorting lens and, as such, it can be systematically removed.
"We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools," he said in a television interview.
The survey reinforced the recent findings of the Warwick Commission, which found that arts and culture was being "systematically removed" from the state education system, and that arts audiences were predominantly white and middle class.
The episode has drawn comparisons to similar chapters in other countries: in Australia, thousands of Indigenous children were systematically removed from their families and communities between 1910 and 1970.
The report into 114 missing Home Office files relating to child abuse in the 80s said last year there was no evidence that they were "deliberately or systematically removed or destroyed to cover up organised child abuse".
Creativity, culture and the arts are being systematically removed from the education system, with dramatic falls in the number of pupils taking GCSEs in design, drama and other craft-related subjects, a new report has revealed.
Designed as a spiritual barrier separating nave from choir or chancel, the public part of the church from that of the priest, the crosses in East Anglia were systematically removed in the Reformation.
