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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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But I can ignore that two-ton eyesore at the courthouse as easily as anywhere else.
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White House Plugs 10 Commandments Displays
Wed Dec 8,11:57 PM ET Politics - AP
By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow Ten Commandments displays on government property, adding a federal view on a major church-state case that justices will deal with early next year.
I had a feeling that this rough beast would shamble toward us soon.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Starman
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Sweden
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 Posted - 12/09/2004 : 04:33:46 [Permalink]
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I really don't mind public displays of what the bible calls the ten commandments, the ones listed in Exodus 34.
We really have to stop people from seething kids in their mothers milk. |
"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 08:32:15 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
quote:
White House Plugs 10 Commandments Displays
Wed Dec 8,11:57 PM ET Politics - AP
By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow Ten Commandments displays on government property, adding a federal view on a major church-state case that justices will deal with early next year.
I, for one, am happy. I keep forgetting about how you aren't supposed to murder people. With the Ten C's in view at local courthouses that should remind me. When I'm at a courthouse. And can see it. So that's good... |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 09:00:07 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Cuneiformist
quote:
Originally posted by filthy
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White House Plugs 10 Commandments Displays
Wed Dec 8,11:57 PM ET Politics - AP
By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow Ten Commandments displays on government property, adding a federal view on a major church-state case that justices will deal with early next year.
I, for one, am happy. I keep forgetting about how you aren't supposed to murder people. With the Ten C's in view at local courthouses that should remind me. When I'm at a courthouse. And can see it. So that's good...
WHAT?! Not supposed to murder people?!
Why was I not informed of this sooner?!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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verlch
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 12:32:11 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Starman
I really don't mind public displays of what the bible calls the ten commandments, the ones listed in Exodus 34.
We really have to stop people from seething kids in their mothers milk.
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What came first the chicken or the egg?
How do plants exist without bugs in the soil, and bugs in the soil without plants producing oxygen?
There are no atheists in foxholes
Underlying the evolutionary theory is not just the classic "stuff" of science — conclusions arrived at through prolonged observation and experimentation. Evolution is first an atheistic, materialistic world view. In other words, the primary reason for its acceptance has little to do with the evidence for or against it. Evolution is accepted because men are atheists by faith and thus interpret the evidence to cor-respond to their naturalistic philosophy.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. II Timothy 4:3,4
II Thess. 2:11 And for this cause God shall
send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
You can not see the 'wind', but you can see its effect!!!!
Evolution was caused by genetic mistakes at each stage?
Radical Evolution has 500 million years to find fossils of fictional drawings of (hard core)missing links, yet they find none.
We have not seen such moral darkness since the dark ages, coencides with
teaching evolution in schools. (Moral darkness)
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places, EPH 6:12.
"Thus, many scientists embracing naturalism find themselves in the seeming dilemma recently articulated by biochemist Franklin Harold: "We should reject, as a matter of principle, the substitution of intelligent design for the dialogue of chance and necessity [i.e., Darwinian evolution]; but we must concede that there are presently no detailed Darwinian accounts of the evolution of any biochemical system, only a variety of wishful speculations."
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Starman
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Posted - 12/15/2004 : 05:02:43 [Permalink]
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Another idiot Alabama judge.
Circuit Judge Ashley McKathan showed up Monday at his Covington County courtroom in southern Alabama wearing a robe with the Ten Commandments embroidered on the front in gold.quote:
McKathan told The Associated Press that he believes the Ten Commandments represent the truth "and you can't divorce the law from the truth. ... The Ten Commandments can help a judge know the difference between right and wrong."
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/15/2004 : 06:23:40 [Permalink]
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| I dont have any problem with it so long as the recognise my religious iconography. For me it is a golden calf which represents law. So Im sure they wont have any problem putting my symbol next to theirs right? Fuckin hypocrites. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Wendy
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Posted - 12/15/2004 : 08:12:43 [Permalink]
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I got all excited for a second. I thought you meant Roy Orbison's rock.
Any chance Moses will come bust this one, too?
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/15/2004 : 08:39:54 [Permalink]
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Not after I sacrifice a couple of virgins to Quetzacoatl on it, and get it all bloody.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2004 : 08:22:46 [Permalink]
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Y'know, at this point, the mods might consider moving this turley to Humor. These Alabama judges get sillier and sillier.
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NewsFlash Home | More Alabama News
Judge embroiders Ten Commandments on judicial robe
12/14/2004, 5:55 p.m. CT
By BOB JOHNSON
The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A south Alabama judge refused to delay a trial Tuesday when an attorney objected to the judge wearing a judicial robe with the Ten Commandments embroidered in gold on the front of the garment.
What's next? The baliff reciting the Big 10 instead of yelling, "All rise...?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
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Posted - 12/16/2004 : 08:40:06 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
But I can ignore that two-ton eyesore at the courthouse as easily as anywhere else.
quote:
White House Plugs 10 Commandments Displays
Wed Dec 8,11:57 PM ET Politics - AP
By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow Ten Commandments displays on government property, adding a federal view on a major church-state case that justices will deal with early next year.
I had a feeling that this rough beast would shamble toward us soon.
The only display of Roy's rock that I would actively support is as a lawn ornament to Roy's house.
As for the Alabama judge, he should be free to wear whatever religious symbology he wishes. That is his first amendment right. As long as he applies the law as it is written, how he justifies it's source is irrelavent. He does have clear conflict of interest when it comes to some potential cases involving members of other religions, however.
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/16/2004 : 11:37:28 [Permalink]
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| When he became a representative of the state, he lost his right to promote religion on the job. If he wants to preach, he can get ordained for free on the internet. If he wants to be a judge, he needs to stop promoting religious nonsense. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/16/2004 : 14:39:32 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Gorgo
When he became a representative of the state, he lost his right to promote religion on the job. If he wants to preach, he can get ordained for free on the internet. If he wants to be a judge, he needs to stop promoting religious nonsense.
Exactly. While behind that bench, he represents the law of the land, not a particular religion. If ballplayers can be fined for wearing an earring, there sure as hell better be some penalty for a judge walking around with bible passages plastered all over his robe.
What is especially disturbing is that the same canard is being used to justify this judge's actions, namely that we must all begin to "recognize [that the Ten Commandments are] the moral basis of our law."
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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