Funny,funny,funny....10 Commandments
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By KIMBERLY HEFLING
Associated Press Writer
MCKEE, Ky. (AP) — With essentially no community opposition,
volunteers placed the Ten Commandments in every classroom in a rural
eastern Kentucky school district before classes began on Wednesday.
The Jackson County school board and superintendent made the decision
as part of ``an effort to start having good morals in school ...
because of all the violent issues that have been showing up,'' said
Betty Bond, principal of Jackson County High School.
Timothy Crawford, the district's attorney, said he's concerned about
lawsuits, but believes the Ten Commandment plaques in the district's
five schools are allowed by law because they were paid for and posted
by local volunteers.
Robert Lakes, a business teacher at Jackson County High School, said
the Ten Commandments were posted in the classroom when he was growing
up.
``It's like the flag,'' Lakes said. ``We've been tearing down symbols
that have been in this country'' for a long time.
Jackson County isn't the only school district in Kentucky or the
country where the Ten Commandments are on display in schools. Tonya
Adams, principal of Union Chapel Elementary School in Russell County,
which has had the Ten Commandments posted for years, said she's never
received any complaints about it.
In Adams County, Ohio, a group of ministers paid to place Ten
Commandments tablets outside four high schools to counter ``moral
decline.''
Jeff Vessels, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union
of Kentucky, said the organization just became aware of the situation
in Jackson County and has not had time to consider a response.
``We're very concerned,'' he said in a telephone interview from
Louisville.
In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Kentucky case that posting
the Ten Commandments violated the Constitution's ban on
government-established religion.
In June, the U.S. House passed a measure allowing the Ten
Commandments to be posted in schools and other government buildings.
The bill now goes to the Senate.
Dan McEwen
Rather amusing. Don't look at the root cause of what causes kids to act
out violently -- bad home lives, not fitting in at school, etc -- and
just shove in a quick fix. Sorry, but I doubt "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is
gonna make any difference to a kid who's already decided his like sucks
enough that he's gonna go out in a blaze of glory, taking a few people
with him.
Rob Teehan
ath...@home.com wrote in message <37b220ea.274366934@news-server>...
Reciting the Lord's Prayer in the morning, not teaching evolution, and now
posting the Ten Commandments...
I took it for granted that my school (near Toronto, ON Canada) is
religion-neutral, but after reading about this I'm feeling very grateful.
Rob
borg166
Rob Teehan wrote:
I'm an atheist myself but I go to a catholic school for a good laugh. =)
Religion class is so easy...
E.F. Mutton
A great source for morals, the same people who:
Persecuted Galileo for being right.
Brought us the Crusades
Brought us the Holocaust
Brought us numerous Inquisitions
Brought us Witch Burnings
Hate Mongering/Homophobia/anti-semitism/intolerance
Missionary annhilation of indigenous populations and their cultures.
Endorsed slavery
Endorsed a subservient position in society for women.
Etc., etc., etc.
Oh yeah, posting the ten commandments should solve all the problems in
the public schools.
Did I mention that school principle is buying some choice swamp land I
currently own.
TheCentralSc...@pobox.com
>
>Did I mention that school principle is buying some choice swamp land I
>currently own.
It's a great deal! You can put a house on it; it is only under water 6
months of the year.
unig...@io.com
>
> <snip>
>
> Rather amusing. Don't look at the root cause of what causes kids to act
> out violently -- bad home lives, not fitting in at school, etc -- and
> just shove in a quick fix. Sorry, but I doubt "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is
> gonna make any difference to a kid who's already decided his like sucks
> enough that he's gonna go out in a blaze of glory, taking a few people
> with him.
Besides, "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is NOT one of the Ten
Commandments!
"Thou Shalt Not Kill" *is* one of ten things that God
says in Exodus 20. But the ten things God says which
are *identified* as "The Ten Commandments" in the Bible
occur in Exodus 34. "Thou shalt not kill" isn't one of
them!
If you have one of these icky books, look it up
yourself.
-Jeff Dee
--
"It is as morally bad not to care whether a thing is true
or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to
care how you got your money as long as you have got it."
-Edmund Way Teale, "Circle of the Seasons", 1950
Sen
>Rob Teehan wrote:
>> Reciting the Lord's Prayer in the morning, not teaching evolution, and now
>> posting the Ten Commandments...
>> I took it for granted that my school (near Toronto, ON Canada) is
>> religion-neutral, but after reading about this I'm feeling very grateful.
>Religion class is so easy...
So tell us about it.
Sen
Dan McEwen
>
> If you have one of these icky books, look it up
> yourself.
I don't.
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Dan
Atheist #1617
John Hattan
>unig...@io.com wrote:
>
>> If you have one of these icky books, look it up
>> yourself.
>
>I don't.
Do what I did. Next time you're in a hotel, pick up one of the
complementary copies that they have.
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John Hattan Grand High UberPope - First Church of Shatnerology
john-...@bigfoot.com http://www.bitsmart.com/shatner
Dan McEwen
>
> Dan McEwen <djmc...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >unig...@io.com wrote:
> >
> >> If you have one of these icky books, look it up
> >> yourself.
> >
> >I don't.
>
> Do what I did. Next time you're in a hotel, pick up one of the
> complementary copies that they have.
Heh. The last time I remember attempting to read one of those was when
I was about 14. I was visiting my cousin in Colorado and we took a trip
up to South Dakota to see Mt. Rushmore. I tried to start reading the
Bible from the beginning. It didn't take long for me to get bored.
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Dan
Atheist #1617
Drake
The Bible is actually a pretty entertaining book, like the Odyssey or the
Lord of the Rings trilogy. But it gets ruined by the fact that people
actually believe it...
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>Dan
>Atheist #1617
>
Diem Marshall
>
> Dan McEwen wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Rather amusing. Don't look at the root cause of what causes kids to act
> > out violently -- bad home lives, not fitting in at school, etc -- and
> > just shove in a quick fix. Sorry, but I doubt "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is
> > gonna make any difference to a kid who's already decided his like sucks
> > enough that he's gonna go out in a blaze of glory, taking a few people
> > with him.
>
> Besides, "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is NOT one of the Ten
> Commandments!
>
> "Thou Shalt Not Kill" *is* one of ten things that God
> says in Exodus 20. But the ten things God says which
> are *identified* as "The Ten Commandments" in the Bible
> occur in Exodus 34. "Thou shalt not kill" isn't one of
> them!
>
> yourself.
>
these sort of occasions. First time I used it I looked up the Exodus
stuff. Whaddya know - the ten commandments are a pile of crap. And what
the hell is all that about the "first birth of the womb belongs to me"
and buying back the males and stuff?
And then the part that people *think* contains the ten commandments, it
goes on about what to do with your slaves - I notice the hebrew men get
to go free after six years but not the women (unless you put her eye out
or knock out a few teeth) And there's so much of it - those hebrew
elders were control freaks weren't they, when they made up all this
stuff?
Mind you, I loved the way it kept coming back to *honouring* your
parents and not answering back.
You can just imagine them all sitting round a dung fire, moaning and
groaning about their kids, how they've got no respect and 'it wasn't
like that when we were young, we knew what respect was'. ROFL!
--
Diem 1459
"More and more, I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now." -
Brian Eno
-nemo-
> Dan McEwen <djmc...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >unig...@io.com wrote:
> >
> >> If you have one of these icky books, look it up
> >> yourself.
> >
> >I don't.
>
> Do what I did. Next time you're in a hotel, pick up one of the
> complementary copies that they have.
>
You have to be selective on that, though. Most of the complimentary copies
I've seen were the KJV, while I prefer the more modern (readable)
versions. I use the NRSV - the grandson of the KJV, and a LOT more fun to
schlepp through.
> ---
> John Hattan Grand High UberPope - First Church of Shatnerology
> john-...@bigfoot.com http://www.bitsmart.com/shatner
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Al Klein
Hattan) wrote:
> Dan McEwen <djmc...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >unig...@io.com wrote:
> >> If you have one of these icky books, look it up
> >> yourself.
> >I don't.
> Do what I did. Next time you're in a hotel, pick up one of the
> complementary copies that they have.
Why not just go to http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?
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