Ten Commandments monument is installed at Oklahoma state....

[bannination]

Capital.

With a few spelling errors to boot.....

http://m.newsok.com/ten-commandments-mo ... le/3728824

[homerfobe]

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidseruent,"
What happened to that part about his ass?

The ACLU is gonna go into three shit fits over this. Oops! too late! LINK

(BTW. Why should a Wisconsin based hate group care what Oklahoma does? Bunch'a friggin' blowhards.)

[bannination]

I always wonder why they stop at ten, I mean the first ten are pretty stupid, but the good stuff starts later!

[homerfobe]

I always wonder why they stop at ten, I mean the first ten are pretty stupid, but the good stuff starts later!

What's stupid about commanding not to steal, kill, screw your neighbor's wife (or daughter), honoring your parents, etc?

I've always heard that they were called the Ten Commandments, not the Ten Suggestions, although neither title means anything nowadays; people's scruples have gone to hell. Don't believe me; read your quote.

[rstrong]

I always wonder why they stop at ten, I mean the first ten are pretty stupid, but the good stuff starts later!

What's stupid about commanding not to steal, kill, screw your neighbor's wife (or daughter), honoring your parents, etc?

I've always heard that they were called the Ten Commandments, not the Ten Suggestions, although neither title means anything nowadays; people's scruples have gone to hell. Don't believe me; read your quote.

You miss the point:

The commandments aren't limited to ten in Exodus 20. They continue through Exodus 21, with the commandments on fair slave trading, selling your daughter into slavery, when to kill your children, and when to stone an ox to death. Really. Look it up. There's more in Exodus 22 and beyond.

BTW, the Exodus 20's "Thou shalt not kill" is just the politically motivated King James translation. In other translations the word is "murder." Exodus 21 and beyond list many commandments where you're obligated to kill.

[bannination]

Even the first commandment has god admitting there are other gods and you are not to worship them. :-)

Making images of things? Yeah, that's horrible. Homerfobe is violating that one by having a forum avatar.

visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate

That's logical, I'm screwed because my great great grandparents did something to offend the almighty.

Really, that's the best rules a "God" could come up with for a society.

[O Really]

I don't know why these people keep stepping on their own dicks on this issue. The ten commandments aren't a bad guide on how to live your life, but have a decidedly religious meaning as usually presented. No reason OK City can't allow private individuals to put up monuments on its property - but what else have they allowed? Nothing wrong with putting up statues, icons, signs, etc. representing various religions in the area, but putting up only one? Seriously?

Simple rule: if you allow one religious statue, you have to allow one from anybody else who wants one. If you let one private individual put up a ten commandments statue, you have to allow other private individuals to put up statues that might contain pentagrams or stars and crescents.

In what alternate universe is it not more reasonable for the city to just stay out of the religion business than to deal with having to let the Church of Body Modification put up a statue of Pinhead on your lawn?

[mike]

I don't know why these people keep stepping on their own dicks on this issue. The ten commandments aren't a bad guide on how to live your life, but have a decidedly religious meaning as usually presented. No reason OK City can't allow private individuals to put up monuments on its property - but what else have they allowed? Nothing wrong with putting up statues, icons, signs, etc. representing various religions in the area, but putting up only one? Seriously?

Simple rule: if you allow one religious statue, you have to allow one from anybody else who wants one. If you let one private individual put up a ten commandments statue, you have to allow other private individuals to put up statues that might contain pentagrams or stars and crescents.

In what alternate universe is it not more reasonable for the city to just stay out of the religion business than to deal with having to let the Church of Body Modification put up a statue of Pinhead on your lawn?

Agreed 100 percent, O Really.

Even the first commandment has god admitting there are other gods and you are not to worship them. :-)

Interesting point, Banni.

Also, don't worry about what your great great grandparents did, you're safe. Christ wiped all that stuff out.

If you're not a believer, you should, still, have nothing to worry about.

[Leo Lyons]

That's logical, I'm screwed because my great great grandparents did something to offend the almighty.

Your ass is grass, and God's name just might be John Deere.

I hear there's a way to remedy that, but I know you're not interested, so I won't waste my time.

[Leo Lyons]

If you're not a believer, you should, still, have nothing to worry about.

Not that I'm a religious scholar, but that's about the most asinine statement I've ever heard. Catholic doctrine?

I suppose he could go hide behind a curtain and confess his waywardness to a man in a dress who might not have washed his hands after the encounter with the altar boy...

[mike]

If you're not a believer, you should, still, have nothing to worry about.

Not that I'm a religious scholar, but that's about the most asinine statement I've ever heard. Catholic doctrine?

Your inaccurate disparagement aside, Leo, do you believe it is reasonable that a non-believer would imagine anything in the Bible would pertain to them personally?

I suppose he could go hide behind a curtain and confess his waywardness to a man in a dress who might not have washed his hands after the encounter with the altar boy...

Yet more disparagement, eh, Leo? Is that all you got?

As to the topic, James Madison in a letter to the Baptist leaders of his day:

[Leo Lyons]

Yet more disparagement, eh, Leo? Is that all you got?

Oh no, there's plenty more. I won't waste it here though.