More insanity from the loony right. Producing yet more looney children who grow to be looney right gun praising in one hand and a bible they can't read in the other.
“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. 'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom? 'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!”
Ok. Let's all now pretend to be outraged so we can slam conservatives and make it out like seeing the ten commandments would make us melt the the witch in the Wizard of Oz.
His student loan sceme and his trampling of religious rights are a couple examples.
Regarding student loans, Biden is following guidlines passed by Congress and signed into law by George W. Bush in 2007. It's called the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Nothing unconstitutional about that law. You should really look it up some time!!
Explain what you mean by "trampling religious rights." Are you referring to the rights of members of the Satanic Temple? Or rights of the Pastafarian followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Please explain exactly what rights were trampled.
OK, I've got an example for you: it would be totally unconstitutional for government to crucify any person. That would run afoul of the "cruel and unusual punishment" clause.
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Yeah, if witnesses were "literally crucified" by a judge, that would be absolutely unconstitutional. However, Trump was literally lying about that.
@NativePortlander1970 posting the 10 commandments isn't congress establishing a religion...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The context of the 1st Amendment is lost on so many people, that it no longer surprises me anymore.
It was never written to forbid religious worship in government as so many erroneously claim; it was designed to prevent government from adopting a state religion & perpetrating inquisitions & persecution against those who didn't believe what they told you to believe and how to believe it...
like the Church of England and Catholic Church have done for hundreds of years, both of which are oblivious to actual scripture and sound Christian doctrine; i.e. they used religion to exert power, not honor Christ...
The anglo-saxons, viking converts, etc. (the predecessors of England as a country) were in reality, no better than the pagans they claimed to abhor. They weren't the Godly people history makes them out to be.
Our forefathers realized all this of course, and wanted to ensure that history didn't repeat itself in the new world...
But to claim that government cannot adhere to any precepts of religion is pure lunacy, as the rules & laws that govern society, morality, ethics, etc. are all based on scripture. We have the Constitution because of the Bible, not in spite of it.
To completely oppose any religious society is to endorse complete anarchy & chaos.
As a society we don't need the Ten Commandments. We are perfectly capable of distinguishing right from wrong. It is ironic that it is the conservative Christian right with their religion and Ten Commandments that can't determine right from wrong.
Pass gun laws until you’re blue in the mouth, but they won’t prevent criminals from getting guns any more than Prohibition prevented people from getting liquor or marijuana laws prevented people from getting weed.
Don't forget to post the Quran, the "call to prayer" for Muslims over the intercom for all the Muslim students, religious excuse to leave class for Muslim students to pray, provide a safe prayer room for our Muslim Students.............................. should I go on?
@boudinMan Doesn't matter Boudinman, I wonder why the federal governement shouldn't just "enforce" it. Maybe we should have a minority religion in the white house, that likes to treat every religion equally in the class room. Maybe the kids might finally learn something.
@boudinMan Separation of Church and State is about protecting the minorities from the majority religion. That’s the point. And if I’m not mistaken the state of Arkansas believes that Satanism qualifies as a religion. The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that because the Ten Commandments were displayed on government property that Satanists were welcome to display their statue of Baphomet in front of the courthouse. I seem to recall that quite a lot of conservatives were “totally pissed” about that, and yet it happened in one of the reddest states in the country. You think it can’t happen where you live too, you’re wrong.
actually, it does matter. christianity is by far the largest religion in america, so it only stands to reason that it would have the most support. and as i have previously stated, if there is support for other religious texts/symbols, display them as well. it isn't difficult to understand, is it?
Christianity is the largest brranch of Judaism. All Christians, regardless of demonination, are Jews by religiion.
That's still in opposition to the first amendment. The right to worship at an Asherah pole is actually protected.
Every country that has invaded another country has sought to replace the native culture with its own. So, all countries follow the real First Commandment, which is to destroy the indigenous peoples' culture.
No,it isn't a good thing. The Spanish destroyed the Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs and the Philippines. Americans and Canadians destroyed the indigenous Indians. The French destroyed the Vietnamese. And there are countless other examples. But they got their ideas from the stories in the Bible, which made them special.
Remember the main idea in the Bible =
2 Esdras 6:53-59 (CEB) “On the sixth day you commanded the earth that it create before you cattle, beasts, and reptiles, 54 and over these you set Adam, the leader over all the things you had made. From him we all, the people you have chosen, have been brought forth.
55 “I have said all these things before you, Lord, because you have said that you created the oldest age[l] for our sake. 56 You have said that the other nations born of Adam are nothing, that they are like spit, and you have compared their abundance to a drop from a pitcher. 57 But look now, Lord! These nations that are valued as nothing rule over us and devour us, 58 while we, your people, whom you have called your oldest offspring, your one and only child, those who are zealous for you, your dearest ones, are handed over to them. 59 If the world was created for our sake, why don’t we possess our world as an inheritance? How long will this situation last?”
If a person believes in the Bible, then that person believes in that and is a Jew by religion and works to take over the world. Remember, the world was created for their sake and for no one else's.
Republicans and he Constitution is like Republicans and the Bible. Cherry pick what you want to prove some kind of point.......disregard the rest if it gets in the way of them making sense.
The Constitution purposedly and clearly prevents church and state from mixing...........so screw that.......we want it too so just overlook that part..
I listened to a judge commenting on the constitutionality of it today. Apparently the 10 Commandments are posted everywhere in Washington DC. They are on the doors of the Congressional library, they are above the Speaker's chair in the House, and they are there because, historically, they are the first set of known laws.
Because they are laws, and because the founders felt that they were the basis for our nation's morality, they have been included and incorporated into our own laws.
The judge said that they have transcended religion, and have become a matter for historical study, and are an element of Civics.
For that reason, she said that it is possible the state of Louisiana might win all the lawsuits being brought against it. Let's wait and see, shall we?
The Extreme Right are already under the impression that when a judge dies, all of their rulings just miraculously go away with them. So I guess we'll need to take this to the Supreme Court again. I wish they would just read the Constitution and the Rulings of the Supreme Court and stop wasting America's time. 🙄
So... Did they scrap Halloween in favour of All Saints Day - and are they going to walk around their local graveyard and learn something about the local dead, given that Halloween isn't a Christian holiday???
