Debating about the Ten Commandments on Public display

[FreedomAngel82]

Has anybody been following this and seeing any of the programs on this? I can't stomach it. Why in the world are we even debating this?! Don't people get that we are a country of freedom of religion and FROM religion? Ugh!

:puke: :wtf: :argh:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. see my sig line

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. That's a great line!

I, too, wonder why the push for Old Testament law, and not for the words of Jesus.

Why not put "It's easier for a rich man to go through the eye of a needle than to enter into the Kingdom of God"?

Or maybe, "If your enemy strikes you on the right cheek, offer him left as well."

Or "If your neighbor asks you for your shirt, give him your cloak as well."

Or, as Vonnegut said, the Beatitudes.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. I don't get it either

The Ten Commandments are an important of Christian history but like the first person's sig line that is from Moses and not Jesus. Jesus never talked about the Ten Commandments and when he came to Earth he changed how things were done and when he died on the cross everything changed. Christians are supposed to be "Christ-like" so how can you be Christ like following something that Christ did not have anything to do with? My church very very very rarely uses anything in sermons from the Old Testament unless refering back to something. Don't these people understand that and understand the first ammendment?!

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Better than the Beatitudes - Jesus' summation of the 10 commandments

Now that I have thought about this for a bit, I realize that I forgot something - Jesus summarized the ten commandments, the rest of the mitzvot, and the entirety of the prophets with one sentence:

You shall love the Lord your God, and your neighbor as yourself.

Let's see 'em put that on the courthouse wall down in freepabama.

[ashmanonar]

5. if you really wanna see what these "christians" stand for...

supply side jesus

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. No no no - it's the freedom to push one's conservative Christian

misunderstanding of Jesus down everyone's throat. For everyone else, it's the freedom to politely "shut the fuck up" religiously, and affirm the freedom of the Jesus Crispies to form legislation and take their faux-morality-that-isn't-morality up the ass with a big ol' flag-lovin' smile.

Sheesh. Didn't you read the Consitution? I think it's in the New Testament.

[Swede Atlanta]

7. The 10 Commandments

I could go on and on about how hypocritical these same thumpers are in supporting the death penalty, killing of innocents in Iraq, endorsing Shrub's stealing from the poor to give to the wealthy, etc. but I won't. Let alone holding a physical manifestation of the 10 commandments as an idol before and above God. That is the purest form of blasphemy.

I have a simple question. There are only 10 of them. Why can't they remember them? Why do they have to have them written down? I think I memorized them when I was 6 and have them still committed to heart.
They aren't difficult to learn. Maybe I'll volunteer at a local fundie church to help teach them to those struggling with remembering them.