COMMENTS:
maybe some people who work in public buildings need a constant reminder
by ABC on Tue Jun 28, 05 6:28pm
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Well, yes, people may read the Ten Commandments at home and probably don't need to see them in public.
However, from my perspective, the Ten Commandments are as much a part of our American heritage as the Constitution. Lots of reasons to connect our past with our present and future. Continuity for one; respect for the sacred in any form is another. Lots of reasons.
Have you ever heard anyone barking in other countries about their religious symbols. Didn't think so. Odd, eh?
Actually, all this stuff is a tempest in a teapot; much ado about little. Still, think the Commandments have a place and folks who don't think so have a place tool. Ain't that America?
Danged if I know. Maybe it IS the need to push the Word upon the masses. Or maybe the churches in these towns don't work to specs anymore.
It helps me dtermine which ones I'm going to break on a given day.
When you watch television, beer commercials show half naked women, you open up a magazine, you are inundated with smoking ads, chewing tobacco, more alcohol ads. Turn on movies and you see tits flopping all over the place, guns firing, swearing constantly. Why the hell does anyone have a problem with the 10 commandments but in the meantime they can just sit back and welcome the rest of what goes on in society?? If you can turn a blind eye to aspects of society that you don't agree with, turn a blind eye then to the ten commandments, no one forces you to read them, no one forces you to believe in them, but damn sure a VAST majority of Americans DO believe they are valuable words to live by, regardless of what someone as ignorant as cranky may bbcelieve.
What about the religous homeless,This may be there biggest thrill in life
I just love these ballots. While I may not personally agree with everything they said, here are our founding fathers in their OWN words:
"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."
..........From the "Treaty of Tripoli" which was signed during the term of George Washington and ratified by congress during the term of John Adams.
"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."
--The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968, p. 420
Thomas Paine
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
James Madison
"Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
Thomas Jefferson
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read,"a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination."
And Abe Lincoln
"The bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."
I've got more. I just choose some of the more tame ones. You can look all these up. The founding fathers may have had some spiritual beliefs (they were Deists generally) but they were hardly based the laws of this country on Christianity or the ten commandments. This is just on the biggest myths out there.
I have to agree with Jappy.
I'm atheist myself and I dont have a problem with the Ten Commandments displayed in public. Same goes for Christmas trees on courthouse lawns, nativity scenes at City Halls, etc... It's the basis of belief for the majority and I have no problem with it. It's part of the US culture.
We need a Constitutional Amendment banning the desecration of the Ten Commandments.
seems to me if you want to remove the ten commandments from government buildings, that means you'd have to remove every other reference to any religion or mythology. courthouses and legistlatures are loaded up with greek and roman mythological references. and then there's the washington monument, an obelisk of amun ra. the commandments are no different.
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