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Old 10-30-2014, 06:10 AM
 
Location: Tulsa, OK
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But religious right conservatives feel that the 1st Amendment was not intended to protect anyone from religion. So if you're offended by a religious monument, like the one for the Ten Commandments, on government property, then that's just too bad. Try looking the other way. But will they take their own advice by allowing a satanist monument to be erected on government property?
I have a very conservative cousin, he is not that religious, but he was thrilled beyond belief when the monument went up. He said it represented the middle finger directed to liberals.
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Old 11-03-2014, 06:43 PM
 
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It would be nice if the politicians could follow the commandments, especially the one about lying. Maybe we need more monuments put up... in every politicians office... on their foreheads!
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Old 11-03-2014, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Where deer are milk cows and hoot owls are chickens and near where Big Foot is occasionally seen.
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I bet if you took the folks that kick and scream to put the 10 commandments at the court houses and asked them to recite to you the commandments they could not remember more than four or 5 of of them at most. I believe the church is the place to teach whatever morality people believe is right for them to live by, and I believe law is what everyone, regardless of moral convictions, decides is how we will behave. Leave religious teaching to the church, leave law to the consensus of the people.
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Old 11-04-2014, 03:20 PM
 
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I bet if you took the folks that kick and scream to put the 10 commandments at the court houses and asked them to recite to you the commandments they could not remember more than four or 5 of of them at most. I believe the church is the place to teach whatever morality people believe is right for them to live by, and I believe law is what everyone, regardless of moral convictions, decides is how we will behave. Leave religious teaching to the church, leave law to the consensus of the people.
Stephen Colbert interviewed a congressman from Georgia a few years ago that co-sponsered a bill to require the commandments be posted in the House and Senate and he could only kind-of name three commandments.
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Old 11-04-2014, 04:35 PM
 
Location: USA
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Stephen Colbert interviewed a congressman from Georgia a few years ago that co-sponsered a bill to require the commandments be posted in the House and Senate and he could only kind-of name three commandments.
The congressman or Colbert?
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Old 11-04-2014, 09:08 PM
 
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The congressman or Colbert?


The congressman.

"Don't kill, don't steal, don't lie"

That's all he had.

Colbert on the other hand is a good Catholic and Sunday school teacher. In his real life.
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