ACLUeless
From the Associated Press via CBN News...
The A-C-L-U sued the Haskell County Commission for approving the Ten Commandments monument, alleging that it promotes one religion -- Christianity -- to the exclusion of all others.
The Ten Commandments are in the Old Testament, or the JEWISH portion of scripture (what Jews call the Torah). Moslems also hold the Bible as scripture, but secondary to the Koran, so it could be argued that the Ten Commandments are also Moslem.
Christianity teaches that we are no longer under the law, but under grace. The Ten Commandments are part of the law. So they actually aren't even as "Christian" as the Atheists at the ACLU want to pretend they are.
So how then do the Ten Commandments promote Christianity?
It would seem the real problem with the Ten Commandments is that they promote the existence of an absolute morality that transcends the rationalization and manipulation by man--in other words it is contrary to one specific religion: Atheism.
Therefore it could much more validly be argued that censoring the Ten Commandments promotes one religion -- Atheism -- to the exclusion of all others.
Posted by Danny Carlton at March 22, 2007 4:46 AM
The real problem with the Ten Commandments is that *real* Christians think they are *real* Christian law/rules, and that they think they are a *real* part of the Christian Bible, and promote them as such. Only Christians are putting up monuments to this set of rules, only Christians are saying that we're suppressing Christianity by denying their placement. Their actual history/book location matters little when the vast majority thinks and uses them as part of their religion. You don't see Jews or Muslims posting the "10 Commandments" - of which the 'graven image' seems to be the most forgotten, lol.
Does a lack of a graven copy of the 10 commandments promote atheism at the airport, restaurant, post office, WalMart, KMart, Subway, gas station? I mean, really.
What? The Ten Commandments aren't in the Bible? Perhaps you should revise your version of "*real*" because it sounds more like it doesn't apply to this planet.
No, we're saying the government is unconstitutionally promoting the religion of Atheism by censoring a section of scripture that's a part of the three largest theistic religions.
It's not a "graven" image since no one is worshipping it or bowing down to it. It's a commemoration of the meaning behind the commandments.
You mistake the lack of the Ten Commandments with the censorship of it. Our nation was founded on biblical principles, the ten Commandment an important part of that. To REMOVE them would be to censor that part of our history and heritage, and for no valid reason other than the religious bigotry of Liberals who loathe the concept of moral absolutes.