Posted on 10/19/2007 3:35:41 AM PDT by Man50D
“I say this as a devout Christian, but I really dont see what all the fuss is about. I dont worship symbols or statues. More important than having a 10 Commandments statue is striving to OBEY the 10 Commandments on a daily basis.”
Please don’t bring common sense to this discussion. Aren’t you aware that without the 10 Commandments there, people will see the display and start coverting to Buddhism en masse?
Actually they've represented the civil liberties of Christians a lot. Believe it or not they're not just an anti-Christian cabal.
You're missing the point here. The government entity here is apparently giving tacit approval of a faith other than Christianity. There have been similar incidents in government schools, where students were forced to live as Muslims, carrying out Muslim rituals, while being prohibited from expressing their Christian faith.
The creeping criminalization of Christianity is something that should concern you.
>>The creeping criminalization of Christianity is something that should concern you.<<
It doesn’t, because we’ve been warned to expect it (Mt. 5:10-12 & 10:16-39; 1 Cor 4:12, among others)
Rather, we should be concerned when men speak well of us (Luke 6:26).
Our answer is in the Spirit and Truth of Christ, not in a statue.
My 5 or 6 times Great Grandfather George Dunn donated the IU campus out of his own property. Half the named streets in town were named after other of my relatives.
Are you sure you've ever been in Bloomington, Indiana?
Stents are in ~ people in Bloomington manufacture them. The entire West side is new since the early 1990s ~ you might have missed that.
I don't know, or care, either way.
My 5 or 6 times Great Grandfather George Dunn donated the IU campus out of his own property.
Well, I had a Mr. Dunn who taught social studies at Central Jr. High, where Kroger's now stands. Are you him? Related? I liked and respected him.
Half the named streets in town were named after other of my relatives.
Lol, you might be overstating your importance a bit. Lessee, 1st st, 2nd st, 3rd st....17th st, Rogers, oh, how about Kirkwood? I do recall a Dunn st somewhere.
Are you sure you've ever been in Bloomington, Indiana?
Naw, I was only born and raised there, but I certainly feel no obligation to prove it to you.
Turns out I said "named streets" and you responded with an argument about the "numbered streets".
Apparantly they were wrong about the locals getting a chance to learn.
Regarding the various old families in Bloomington and that area, they're all pretty much covered in the family genealogical research we have. You checked out William Alexander named down there on the memorial at the Court House? He's a relative too ~ like my grandfather's grandfather.
And no, my surname is not Dunn!
Welcome to what those of us in Indiana like to call The people Republic of Bloomington.
That is the liberal argument against public display of the Ten Commandments. I didn't buy it in that case and I don't buy it in this one.
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