""It is appropriate that during this 250th Anniversary of our Nation's founding, Rockwall County will erect a monument to display the Ten Commandments,"
No, no it's not. Neither god, jesus, the babble or the 10 commandants are mentioned in any of the founding documents.
They like to pretend this country was somehow founded on the Commandments in spite of the fact eight of them would be unconstitutional if anyone tried writing them into law. There are perfectly good secular justifications for outlawing murder and robbery, everything else is pure religious dogma.
Not only do they NOT want to learn, it's pretty clear to me that their goal is to vitiate the First Amendment entirely, starting with the Establishment Clause.
What, AGAIN? ]Yeah, TS, again, drat it.] Yet another case of: "What part of 'Congress shall make no law...' et cetera, et cetera, don't you get?" Obvious answer: they don't WANT to get it, and it's entirely possible that the purpose of putting this thing up is to create SCOTUS bait to take yet one more shot at the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
I hope the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Americans United fall on this with both feet!
They're just hoping that SCOTUS will declare the Establishment Clause to mean that congress is only prohibited from declaring one individual sect the official Church of the United States.
I predict that Alito will use the following scenario:
- 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion (1st amendment)
- The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 (10th amendment)
The Supreme Court will rule 6 to 3 that it was the explicit wish of the the Framers of the Constitution "To give every state the right to establish their own State Religion" (the 3 dissenting opinions will, as usually, be ignored)
More performance art from the religious right. They can’t provide a shred of objective evidence to support the idea placing the Ten Commandments in the town square ever made a bit of difference. In any event, these things are a win-win for them. They either get to force their religion on others, or they get to play the poor, persecuted victims of the Godless left. It’s that second option that keeps the money rolling in.
And that is their point. They want their revisionist pseudohistory claiming the US is a Christian nation to be forced on everyone. They want to make their version of Christianity mandatory. They want everyone to know that if you aren't one of them, you don't count as a full citizen. And when they get pushback they get to cry "persecution" and many people will believe them because of Christian Fucking Privilege.
I don't understand how the Ten Commandments promotes Christianity when that list (found in the OLD Testament, a ripoff of the Tanakh) was meant only for the Chosen People and was made long before Jesus allegedly walked the Earth.
Another example of Christian’s not MINDING their own business to try to push their faith onto others! Not to mentioned that the Ten Commandments violate the Bill of Rights, only the rules about murder, theft are valid; yet rules against murder and theft has existed before Moses was a bad idea!
They violate the 2nd commandment to force their interpretation of the 1st commandment in contradiction of the First Amendment. I wonder how many of them think the 2nd commandment is the 2nd amendment instead?
This is Texas. There are between 25,000 and 34,000 churches/religious organizations there. Are they telling us that this monument can't find a home anywhere on religious property? Seriously?
""It is appropriate that during this 250th Anniversary of our Nation's founding, Rockwall County will erect a monument to display the Ten Commandments,"
No, no it's not. Neither god, jesus, the babble or the 10 commandants are mentioned in any of the founding documents.
These assholes just never learn.
They like to pretend this country was somehow founded on the Commandments in spite of the fact eight of them would be unconstitutional if anyone tried writing them into law. There are perfectly good secular justifications for outlawing murder and robbery, everything else is pure religious dogma.
They also voted for a guy who has violated almost every one of their 'holy commandments.'
Well, the "false witness" bit is rather beneficial to our system of jurisprudence, too.
And, as with robbery and murder, prohibitions on perjury neither derive from nor are exclusive to the Abrahamic mythos.
Not only do they NOT want to learn, it's pretty clear to me that their goal is to vitiate the First Amendment entirely, starting with the Establishment Clause.
I hope a court case CLOBBERS them!
What, AGAIN? ]Yeah, TS, again, drat it.] Yet another case of: "What part of 'Congress shall make no law...' et cetera, et cetera, don't you get?" Obvious answer: they don't WANT to get it, and it's entirely possible that the purpose of putting this thing up is to create SCOTUS bait to take yet one more shot at the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
I hope the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Americans United fall on this with both feet!
They're just hoping that SCOTUS will declare the Establishment Clause to mean that congress is only prohibited from declaring one individual sect the official Church of the United States.
To which we all answer in three-part harmony, "WHICH ONE???" We got some 40,000 Protestant denominations to choose from, the last I knew.
[sigh] This was old 10 squares back.
The Catholic Supreme Court will ignore the 40000 heretic sects and establish the one true Church with The American Pope.
Uh-huh, SUUUUUUUUUURE they will ... whereupon the Protestants will go after the Catholics, hammer and tongs, until all that's left is a greasy spot.
And we'll just smile and keep on keepin' on!
And on Memorial Day weekend, no less.
Colonel Mason has entered the chat.....
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/pnj757/the_atheist_symbol_for_atheists_buried_at/
Atheists have served in the US military since the American Revolution.
"There are no atheists in foxholes." ~ Military chaplain Lieutenant Colonel William T. Cummings
"Bullshit." ~ Me, an atheist who spent plenty of time digging and hanging out in foxholes. 🫡🇺🇸
"UTTER BULLSHIT." -- Mikey Weinstein, of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
There’s no room for atheists in foxholes because those foxhole are filled to overflowing with xtians who KNOW no helping is coming from above.
If I had been a combat veteran (I missed the 'Nam and just as well), I would INSIST on that symbol on my marker.
"𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟; 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒. (𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑦𝑒𝑡!)"
I predict that Alito will use the following scenario:
- 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion (1st amendment)
- The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 (10th amendment)
The Supreme Court will rule 6 to 3 that it was the explicit wish of the the Framers of the Constitution "To give every state the right to establish their own State Religion" (the 3 dissenting opinions will, as usually, be ignored)
Forgetting the 14th amendment guarantee of equal protection.
Time for the Satanic Temple to put up a 7 Tenets or Baphomet monument.
Not just yes, but HELL, YES! That might just wake those dips up a mite!
And watch it get vandalized, Christians don’t like to share.
No doubt they will but it gets the ST more publicity.
More performance art from the religious right. They can’t provide a shred of objective evidence to support the idea placing the Ten Commandments in the town square ever made a bit of difference. In any event, these things are a win-win for them. They either get to force their religion on others, or they get to play the poor, persecuted victims of the Godless left. It’s that second option that keeps the money rolling in.
𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑛’𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠; 𝑖𝑡’𝑙𝑙 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑛-𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙.
And that is their point. They want their revisionist pseudohistory claiming the US is a Christian nation to be forced on everyone. They want to make their version of Christianity mandatory. They want everyone to know that if you aren't one of them, you don't count as a full citizen. And when they get pushback they get to cry "persecution" and many people will believe them because of Christian Fucking Privilege.
I don't understand how the Ten Commandments promotes Christianity when that list (found in the OLD Testament, a ripoff of the Tanakh) was meant only for the Chosen People and was made long before Jesus allegedly walked the Earth.
As if right wing jesusfuckers actually read that book of crap, I would not hold your breath on that!
Here's a question I asked in a class I'm taking (at the tender age of 71!) which brought the class to a screeching halt:
Who, and what. was God before Jesus and Christianity?
How stupid is America ?
EXTREMELY FN STUPID
From Australia … 🦘🦘🦘
Trump UNRAVELS on STAGE, gets WRECKED by Fox Host
https://youtu.be/WcjQahFmkss?si=bF0Z_crYecmo_17M
The Dead Sea Scrolls Prove The Bible Is A Lie …
https://youtu.be/GU4HbjytIbU?si=6ubEB5ioFkUkD5Fh
Another example of Christian’s not MINDING their own business to try to push their faith onto others! Not to mentioned that the Ten Commandments violate the Bill of Rights, only the rules about murder, theft are valid; yet rules against murder and theft has existed before Moses was a bad idea!
And just think: they only had to violate the 2nd Commandment to do it.
They violate the 2nd commandment to force their interpretation of the 1st commandment in contradiction of the First Amendment. I wonder how many of them think the 2nd commandment is the 2nd amendment instead?
OT: Hollow words since the church made money from owning human beings. Deeds, not words.
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/pope-leo-xiv-makes-historic-apology-holy-sees-133279925
If they were sincere, they’d have to payout reparations that would result in the utter destruction of the RCC.
Exactly.
And trust these idiots to use the mistranslated Ten Commandments. So frustrating.
Why do xtians hate America?
Do I have to say it yet again?
Not. The. Real. Ten. Commandments.
This is Texas. There are between 25,000 and 34,000 churches/religious organizations there. Are they telling us that this monument can't find a home anywhere on religious property? Seriously?
If it is not important enough to be in any Christian church, then why should it be placed anywhere else!