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a little 10 Commandments irony

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QUOTE from this article...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95837,00.html

An irate man initiated the "Put it back!" chorus after the monument was wheeled away from the rotunda.

"Get your hands off our God, God haters!" yelled the wildly gesturing, red-faced man.

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um, is he calling the statue God? doesnt he know there's a commandment against that?
 
Holy idol-smasher, Batman!

This guy can't be so dense as to not understand what he's saying, can he? Get your hands off our God?!?!?!?!? Whackamole!
 
It is truly ironic.

Steve Allen has remarked that some people who call themselves Christians act as though they worship a Book rather than the Almighty.

This whole episode has more than its share of irony.

For example, the folks who filed suit to stop the removal asserted that the Ten Commandments provides a moral basis for the propositions that all men are created equal. And yet, the "coveting" commandment (which was only partially quoted on the monument) refers to coveting the property of a neighbor. The commandment gave some examples of the kinds of property that ought not to be coveted, including a wife, a male slave and a female slave ("Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." Ex. 20:17; see also Deut. 5:21). A commandment that expressly permits one human being to own another can hardly be said to be the basis for the proposition that all men are created equal.

Sometimes it's hard to tell the irony from the hypocrisy.
 
:D

For the uninitiated there is a scripture that reads "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. " John 1:14

Now we all know that the "word" is the bible. So yes, the bible and christ are one and god the father and the holy ghost and jesus christ are one. ????

bible = word
word = jesus
jesus = god

Therefore, the bible is god.
 
I have read a lot of the comments and arguments from the protestors, but most seem to be losing it.

There is a lot of the "they are taking away god" types of arguments. Which is really strange since it is only a statue.

But there are others who start screaming that the us is getting rid of god. :eek: What? the state of Alabama is just getting rid of a 4 ton statue of the 10 commandments that was placed there illegally. Why are people who never stepped foot in the courthouse now fearing there faith now that the statue is gone? I don't think things have changed that much for them.

Then they all scream that they (the 10 commandments) belong in the courthouse because our laws are based on them. But I have looked and looked and I haven't found 1 us law that states that you should have no other god, but me. If these people would just read the 10 commandments that are written on the top of the statue, they would know that there are only 3 that have any bearing on US Law and they are so obvious that I really don't think we needed the 10 commandments to tell us them.

don't steal, don't kill, don't lie? oh, now I get it :wink:
 
My favorite irony in this hoo-hah comes from people who scream "moral reletavism" while Alabama, IIRC, support the death penalty.

Thou shall not what?

Kill 23 people since 1977?
 
Brown said:
It is truly ironic.

Steve Allen has remarked that some people who call themselves Christians act as though they worship a Book rather than the Almighty.

This whole episode has more than its share of irony.

For example, the folks who filed suit to stop the removal asserted that the Ten Commandments provides a moral basis for the propositions that all men are created equal. And yet, the "coveting" commandment (which was only partially quoted on the monument) refers to coveting the property of a neighbor. The commandment gave some examples of the kinds of property that ought not to be coveted, including a wife, a male slave and a female slave ("Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." Ex. 20:17; see also Deut. 5:21). A commandment that expressly permits one human being to own another can hardly be said to be the basis for the proposition that all men are created equal.

Sometimes it's hard to tell the irony from the hypocrisy.
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Burn the Bibles, destroy the crucifixes, tear down the churches, demolish any and all icons...the faith is what counts, not the trappings. If you are a True Believer, nothing would shatter your faith.

Dr. John once said that church had become just a place to go to, to see who did not show up at church that day; services weren't really all that important.
 
One of the biggest problems I have with the displaying of the 10 commandments is that the first 4 deal with man's relationship with god. Why waste 2/5ths with some dubious concept?

The rest (eg. "Thou shall not steal", "Adultery", and "killing" etc.) are good ideas.

I read the Fox news article link at the top. I found it curious that the weight:
Before the 5,280-pound monument was wheeled away, supporters had promised to keep up the fight to keep it in place.
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Was pound for feet, the same distance as a mile.

Charlie (what's that in kilograms vs meters) Monoxide
 
jimlintott said:


Throw stupidity into the mix and even I get confused.
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And then throw in news cameras, and you have the perfect 6:00 recipe for a news story.

Honestly, they looked ridiculous. But they knew that this would play to their home audience of fundamentalists. And are their beliefs so weak that if a statue that had only been there a few weeks, were taken away that their God would also be taken away? What are they so afraid of?

Michael
 
Who paid for it in the first place, the judge (out of his own pocket) or were the taxpayers charged for it?
Secondly, who said it was OK to place it in front of the building? Did the judge just say, 'Put it here', without any permission from the State?
 
I can't covet my neighbors ass? :eek:

you obviously have never seen her... :D

Nononono.

It is a sin to covet your neighbor's ass.
It is a sin to covet your neighbor's wife.
It is, however, allowed to covet your neighbor's wife's ass.

I agree, it's a horrible commandment--"thou shall not covet they neighbor's wife." It's so VAGUE, that's the problem. I mean, suppose he lives three blocks away... does that count as a neighbor or not?
 
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