Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - View Single Post - Alabama Justice Won't Remove Commandments

j8ear · 08-19-2003, 07:16 AM

I think I've done gone off and aruged myself two positions ;-)

1. When government goes and tells ANYONE to take down anything, ESPECIALLY religous things, it sickens me. You don't like it, you go and take it down. You want it up, go put it up. Bring your friends if you think you need help.

I did say that I knew nothing about the justice, if the cats a hard corp zealot who frequently quotes scripture in his rulings and demonstrates that he's ~very~ christian in his decision making process, and this was his only motivation for erecting the tablets, then the people of Alabama should go take down the ten commandents. Not the fucking federal governmemt. I submit that the first ammendment to the constitution expressly forbids them from doing so.

Again, I'm no constitutional scholar.

2. The ten commandments. Love them or hate them, adhere to them or defile them. It doesn't matter. They are the oldest written guidelines for human existance (or damn close to it certainly, anyone know for sure?). Any and all such lists or guidelines should be ingrained in EVERY educated persons mind. All of them. From all religions, from all historically significant legislation, from all civilizations, past present and future. Sort them out, reconcile them other with knowledge and experience you posess, and develop your own guidelines.

To deem the ten commandments ~contentious~ seems to me to be a bit extreme. Geez, it's a list, religious in orgin. Do with it what you please. Do with ALL the lists what please. You just might be better of for the experience.

Anyway, I'll edit later...gotta get to l'office.

over,

bear

08-19-2003, 07:16 AM	#68 (permalink)
j8ear Gentlemen Farmer Location: Middle of nowhere, Jersey	I think I've done gone off and aruged myself two positions ;-) 1. When government goes and tells ANYONE to take down anything, ESPECIALLY religous things, it sickens me. You don't like it, you go and take it down. You want it up, go put it up. Bring your friends if you think you need help. I did say that I knew nothing about the justice, if the cats a hard corp zealot who frequently quotes scripture in his rulings and demonstrates that he's ~very~ christian in his decision making process, and this was his only motivation for erecting the tablets, then the people of Alabama should go take down the ten commandents. Not the fucking federal governmemt. I submit that the first ammendment to the constitution expressly forbids them from doing so. Again, I'm no constitutional scholar. 2. The ten commandments. Love them or hate them, adhere to them or defile them. It doesn't matter. They are the oldest written guidelines for human existance (or damn close to it certainly, anyone know for sure?). Any and all such lists or guidelines should be ingrained in EVERY educated persons mind. All of them. From all religions, from all historically significant legislation, from all civilizations, past present and future. Sort them out, reconcile them other with knowledge and experience you posess, and develop your own guidelines. To deem the ten commandments ~contentious~ seems to me to be a bit extreme. Geez, it's a list, religious in orgin. Do with it what you please. Do with ALL the lists what please. You just might be better of for the experience. Anyway, I'll edit later...gotta get to l'office. over, bear __________________ It's alot easier to ask for forgiveness then it is to ask for permission.