You can always count on this argument to come out:
I don't like the idea of having another monument that would distract me from the LORD's Law. I think that the Free thinkers are selfish, they don't want anyone to worship the LORD God. I do feel sorry for them. The LORD God will come back to judge on the last day and they will realize too late that he is real. David B. 3/10 5:38 p.m.I wonder if David feels "distracted" by the TV in his own home so much that he doesn't own one, and instead, hangs the 10C in the living room to meditate on? Wanna bet on it? I mean, after all, he would only be paying attention to the 10C monument, what, once a week, at most? For 10 minutes? So he must put them in his house, right? Since the Bible says to, and all...Go read Deut. 6:6-9 HERE, and go read what a rational man, D.L. Moody, once wrote about posting the 10C: HERE.
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Freethinkers aren't free - they're bound by their own prejudice, fear(of God having one over them somehow) and self importance. It's all about them! For Christians - it's all about God! The commandments ought to stand alone, unless they are flanked by our country's other national icons such as the constitution or declaration. Annie 5:38 p.m.First, to address this classic logical fallacy that Christians just can't seem to ever get through their thick dense skulls: admitting that a God exists does not logically entail the 10 Commandments, or any presupposed commandments that we must obey. In other words, I could believe that a God exists, without believing that your book of fables and myths is the Word of that God. And so, this idea of fear is completely stupid -- there is absolutely no reason to suppose that your God is the God that might exist, or that your book is that God's book. Non sequitur...go look it up. Therefore, there is no logical argument that any theist can make which is based on that idea that atheists just don't want to admit God exists, because then they'd have to serve God. Not until they can prove that a God = their God + their Book + their commandments + their interpretation of all the above. And don't hold your breath waiting on that one...it's not like most of these characters get the subtlety of such arguments.
Second, flanking the 10C with those two founding documents would provide for a stark contrast. It may, in fact, look quite ridiculous to try to tie those three things together in any rational manner.
Finally, Annie, it's simply not your right to use the government as a tool to enforce your religious creeds, and certainly not your business to tell me which God exists, or how it wants to live over me. What purpose does it serve there? Your own Bible tells you to put them in your house, tie them to your hand, and put them on your forehead. Are you obeying? No. Instead, you're violating the 2nd commandment by making a graven image. Hilarious. And instead of listening to your Bible tell you where to put them, you want to put them in public.
More of the same theocratic illogic...day after day. (HT: Religion Clause)
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