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Cut Ten Commandments down to 6? (Appointed by 0bama)
Roanoke.com ^ | May 8, 2012 | Laurence Hammock

Posted on 05/08/2012 6:39:23 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Suuurrreeee, and while we’re at it, teach the kids that the Moon is made of green cheese, the Easter Bunny was in Hawaii for vacation, and...what else nonsense they can come up with.

God GOD! Has everyone been taking crazy pills?


21 posted on 05/08/2012 7:52:35 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Kaslin
The state should recognize the 10 commandments as a historical reference, not a religious one.

In much the same way, symbols have been bastardized by liberal interest groups, the state/fed just moves in an emotional wind. Instead, the state should neither recognize, endorse, favor or forbid any free exercise of religious expression that does not infringe on the rights of others to pursue life, liberty and happiness.

NOTE: ...that does not infringe on the rights of others.

I personally do not endorse the interpretation of Jefferson's original letter suggesting there is a clear separation of church and state. The constitution itself is more clear in that congress shall pass no laws abridging the right.... Neither the Constitution nor Thomas Jefferson ever suggested the banning of religious symbols to protect one group of citizenry's belief over another’s.

This post is entirely from a historical point of view and does not represent its author's religious opinion of the 10 Commandments.

23 posted on 05/08/2012 8:21:16 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (With regards to the GOP: I am prodisestablishmentarianistic!)
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To: Verginius Rufus

You are obviously not a Lutheran. Either that or you don’t have a clue.


24 posted on 05/08/2012 8:36:21 PM PDT by mfreddy
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To: Kaslin

Just throw out the 10 Commandments and start using the Georgia Guidestones openly. After all, the demons in the country are brazenly and actively supporting depopulation, among other key elements of those Satanic stones.


25 posted on 05/08/2012 8:51:52 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Kaslin
The Catholic version has 3 which refer to obligations to God and 7 which refer to relations with other people. The prohibition of graven images is included in the first commandment. The commandment against coveting is divided into two: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" and "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods."

I have read that Martin Luther kept the Catholic counting of the Ten Commandments. I'm not a Lutheran and I don't know if modern-day Lutherans follow his practice or agree with other Protestants.

26 posted on 05/08/2012 8:58:48 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin

The WRATH of God, cometh soon.


27 posted on 05/08/2012 9:03:02 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: Verginius Rufus

Understoood. We follow all the commandments, no breakdown, or interpretation. Luther’s catechism makes no distinctions.

Maybe that is our break with the Catholic Church. Maybe it is also our break with the Wisconsin synod, I am Missouri synod.

The Church has many divisions, and ultimately dilutions. Kinda like our modern society, justifying actions with diluted morality.


28 posted on 05/08/2012 9:04:27 PM PDT by mfreddy
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To: Verginius Rufus

Understoood. We follow all the commandments, no breakdown, or interpretation. Luther’s catechism makes no distinctions.

Maybe that is our break with the Catholic Church. Maybe it is also our break with the Wisconsin synod, I am Missouri synod.

The Church has many divisions, and ultimately dilutions. Kinda like our modern society, justifying actions with diluted morality.


29 posted on 05/08/2012 9:09:06 PM PDT by mfreddy
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To: ConservaTexan
Why not just teach the last 15 letters of the alphabet?

Judging from the quality of education in many parts of this country, I believe they are already doing this.

30 posted on 05/08/2012 9:26:23 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: Kaslin

Jesus cut the commandments down to two. (Matt. 22:37-40) Wonder if the judge would go with that solution?


31 posted on 05/08/2012 9:30:31 PM PDT by daisy mae for the usa
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To: SoldierDad

>>Why not just teach the last 15 letters of the alphabet?
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>Judging from the quality of education in many parts of this country, I believe they are already doing this.

Dud txt so rks.

(Sorry, that should be read with dripping sarcasm.... sprinkled liberally with Schadenfreude.)


32 posted on 05/08/2012 9:49:59 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: daisy mae for the usa

>Jesus cut the commandments down to two. (Matt. 22:37-40) Wonder if the judge would go with that solution?

Probably say something like this:
Who the hell is this ‘Jesus’ guy to think that he has any authority in the law? Why I bet he doesn’t have any precedent to back what he says up!

Well, that might just be my sarcasm kicking in.


33 posted on 05/08/2012 9:52:26 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
The 10 commandments are historical.

The entire Bible is historical, a better argument is the Feds have no business in local schools at all.

34 posted on 05/08/2012 10:59:46 PM PDT by itsahoot (I will not vote for Romney period. You can't trust the man with the big red (R))
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To: Kaslin

I guess the commandments have joined the U.S Constitution on the liberal list of “living documents.”


35 posted on 05/08/2012 11:12:30 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: tbpiper

Liberals are smarter than God.


36 posted on 05/08/2012 11:16:26 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Kaslin
(Art.) "If indeed this issue is not about God, why wouldn't it make sense for Giles County to say, 'Let's go back and just post the bottom six?'" Urbanski asked during a motions hearing in U.S. District Court in Roanoke.

"But if it's really about God, then they wouldn't be willing to do that."


O wise judge! O Solomonic arbi- .... oh, wait, we can't say that either, can we?

Well, anyway, spoken like a true Roman judge! "Quis est veritas?"

"'What is the truth?' said jesting Pilate,
And would not stay for an answer." -- Browning

And then there was this guy, from the Acts:

"Et nihil erat curae Gallioni." (Jews complaining about Christians and demanding the right to try them and stone them under Jewish ecclesiastical law.)

"And it was of no concern to Gallio."

37 posted on 05/09/2012 1:30:45 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Kaslin

This judge is making thinly veiled threats to Giles County.

He also ought to know that in parallel cases what was done was to add other historical fundamental law documents to the Commandments display. This proposal is new and a bunch of hooey.


38 posted on 05/09/2012 2:05:31 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Isn’t militant atheism also about God (in their case, chasing references to God out)?


39 posted on 05/09/2012 2:07:34 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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To: Kaslin

The judge is a fool.

(”The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God.” Psalm 14:1)


40 posted on 05/09/2012 3:46:40 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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