Thread: Cut Ten Commandments down to 6?

Originally Posted by digsbe

What does this have to do with SSM? I think the hypersensitive ones are those who cannot stomach having the 10 Commandments displayed or want to oppress religious beliefs and freedom of expression by trying to warp the law into stating that you can't display these things in a public place/



No, but if a student or faculty want to display something in public schools they should be able to. It's shouldn't be a religion free zone.

You called people who don't want to have to read the 10 dictates of some religion hypersensitive. It's the same as those religious people being against same sex marriage. It is hypersensitive. It has a lot to do with as the examples relate the same feelings from both perspectives.

Originally Posted by katiegrrl0

It fits Digs post.

I would have stuck to, "why do you feel the need to have the 10 Commandments posted in _________? Why do your sensitivities need to be promoted so superficially and frequently in public?" It at the very least flips the question rather than going off topic.

Originally Posted by katiegrrl0

You called people who don't want to have to read the 10 dictates of some religion hypersensitive. It's the same as those religious people being against same sex marriage. It is hypersensitive. It has a lot to do with as the examples relate the same feelings from both perspectives.

i can tell you are foaming at the mouth over this simply because it is religious and i can tell religion has not been on your side.

just take a breath and think about the argument at hand

Originally Posted by digsbe

Why do militant atheists have to throw a fit over hanging the 10 Commandments? People are to hypersensitive, and it's a public place and should be allowed to hang.

The very same thing could be said about the other side here digs, why do religious people have to be so hypersensitive about not being allowed to display the 10 Commandments in a public school building? It's a public school building and people shouldn't be allowed to hang up whatever they want to. It should be for learning and unless they are willing to put up all manner of religious teachings, including Muslim laws and Hindu laws, Buddhist principles and the many old school religious teachings, Wiccan rules, plus things that express atheist and agnostic ideals, not to mention probably many more just to ensure that you actually do represent as many people as possible, then it is best just to leave the 10 Commandments (as a banner at least) where they belong on church or private property, not as a public school house decoration.

Originally Posted by digsbe

Why do militant atheists have to throw a fit over hanging the 10 Commandments? People are to hypersensitive, and it's a public place and should be allowed to hang.

Because, if we can't maintain separation of church and state, then the Necronomicon and other fictional works have just as much right to hang outside the courthouse as the 10 commandments.

Originally Posted by digsbe

Why do militant atheists have to throw a fit over hanging the 10 Commandments? People are to hypersensitive, and it's a public place and should be allowed to hang.

The Book of Mormon contains a very good answer to this, I think…

1 Nephi 16:2

…wherefore, the guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the very center.

Those who are wicked do not like to be reminded of the standards that they are violating. They are often very motivated to do whatever they can to see that any such reminders are censored.

Originally Posted by digsbe

What does this have to do with SSM? I think the hypersensitive ones are those who cannot stomach having the 10 Commandments displayed or want to oppress religious beliefs and freedom of expression by trying to warp the law into stating that you can't display these things in a public place.

I've always found it very strange that the left have succeeded in perverting the First Amendment, into an excuse for exactly the sort of censorship and suppression that the First Amendment was clearly intended to prohibit.

Originally Posted by Somerville

This is about a public high school in Virginia that has posted the Ten Commandments in a hallway of the school. There were protests and the poster with the Commandments was removed, more protests followed and the poster was re-installed. Now it is in court.



Why do the hyper-religious Christians continue to wast taxpayer dollars in fighting the lawsuits which they inevitably lose in court? For example, here in Florida, this past week - Bradford County Ten Commandments monument dedicated

The fact of the matter is, you can take nine of the Ten Commandments and very convincingly show why they are good for society from a completely secular and logical framework.

Originally Posted by Somerville

This is about a public high school in Virginia that has posted the Ten Commandments in a hallway of the school. There were protests and the poster with the Commandments was removed, more protests followed and the poster was re-installed. Now it is in court.



Why do the hyper-religious Christians continue to wast taxpayer dollars in fighting the lawsuits which they inevitably lose in court? For example, here in Florida, this past week - Bradford County Ten Commandments monument dedicated

It wasn't costing anyone anything until militant bigot atheists made it an issue.

Originally Posted by roguenuke

It's an interesting compromise. And it sounds like those against the display are actually not the ones complaining about it (it didn't seem very clear on that part though). If the ACLU goes for it, I say the county should take it. It really sounds like the most likely way for them to avoid a longer and more difficult legal battle which they likely will lose.

If you remove the 1st commandment, then the other 9 have no authority and become subjective and optional.