tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post7415757460348460561..comments2024-03-25T07:29:08.216-04:00Comments on 2 Political Junkies: Ten Commandments UpdateMariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10439330154875628083noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-46361733437647252822013-09-02T10:03:06.921-04:002013-09-02T10:03:06.921-04:00A few days ago I may have agreed with their behavi...A few days ago I may have agreed with their behavior being logic defying. But I'm in the middle of a Hitchens book wherein he suggests that all monotheistic religions, at their very core, task themselves, however subtlety, with wiping out all other religions (or pretty much anything that isn't conforming). The whole "no other false gods before me" thing.<br /><br />Last year our own state government adopted 2012 "year of the bible" in state law. Look up HR 535 and read it. It sends chills up my spine. Where's our bill of rights now? And why not year of the Quran? Or year of the Torah? The christian rights' double standard isn't so illogical from their perspective. <br /><br />It's not too big a deal to be combative towards the remnants of the 50's McCarthyism. If we see the day when the words in god we trust removed from our currency and under god omitted from our pledge of allegiance, ill be amazed. Until then, they are the stuff that enable the slippery slope to endure. Zeus0209https://www.blogger.com/profile/06793526088038747718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-48807812889738316252013-08-31T23:03:55.285-04:002013-08-31T23:03:55.285-04:00I think everyone involved makes way too big a deal...I think everyone involved makes way too big a deal about this whole thing. Nationalized religion in this country simply isn't going to start at a small town school. Liberals who present that as the case, or make comparisons to religious persecution of Quakers in England are guilty of trying to make mountains out of mole hills.<br /><br />With that said, conservatives tout themselves as the freedom party, and freedom from nationalized religion IS a basic guarantee of our Bill of Rights. If I allow myself to empathize with the conservative case, I can understand the feeling of resentment at having a law meant to protect your right to worship used to remove a token of your beliefs from the place where your children are educated.<br /><br />The part that defies logic is the assessment that the removal of the monument itself is an act of religious persecution. No one is telling people what they can't do in their own homes or private lives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com