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Hey, T.Glenn
Subject: RE: keep the faith (No pun intended)
You're right. And I can't wait until they tear down the Supreme Court Building. The front of it, where they have carved in stone a depiction of Moses holding the Ten Commandments, makes my stoamch turn. Man, what were those sons of bucks thinking in the 30's. Just a bunch of slobber mouth fundamentalists. Crawdaddy
Hey Crawdaddy, Good to hear from the Southern Republican Baptist ilk who are trying to learn something rather than just accept all the propaganda they are feed from their fundamentalist leaders.
Luke has been in the Supreme Court several times and said that in addition to that one sculpture there are sculptures of Mohammed, Budda, and many other religious and historic figures. If it was only Moses then it would not be allowed but if it is in the context of all other religions and history of law then it is allowed. Jesus is not depicted because he wasn't big on "the Law" the way Moses and those in the Old Testament were. Actually, having Moses there is more a nod to the Jews than Christianity. There is no sculpture of Jesus on the cross or the stone rolled away in the third day. Actually Christianity is excluded. Maybe you could get the ACLU to take your case. I don't have a problem with it that way. No one religion is excluded except Christianity. There can't be any discrimination or establishment of only one faith. That is what the Constitution says. The problem with many fundamentalists is that they only want their religion depicted to the exclusion of all others. You need to listen to both sides of the issue instead of the James Kennedy and the James Dobson types. They lie by only giving one side of the stories and exclude the whole picture. Like Paul Harvey says, "and now the rest of the story." Read and study. Any time you need to learn something I am always happy to help you.
Love ya!
Subject: RE: keep the faith (No pun intended)
You're right. And I can't wait until they tear down the Supreme Court Building. The front of it, where they have carved in stone a depiction of Moses holding the Ten Commandments, makes my stoamch turn. Man, what were those sons of bucks thinking in the 30's. Just a bunch of slobber mouth fundamentalists. Crawdaddy
Hey Crawdaddy, Good to hear from the Southern Republican Baptist ilk who are trying to learn something rather than just accept all the propaganda they are feed from their fundamentalist leaders.
Luke has been in the Supreme Court several times and said that in addition to that one sculpture there are sculptures of Mohammed, Budda, and many other religious and historic figures. If it was only Moses then it would not be allowed but if it is in the context of all other religions and history of law then it is allowed. Jesus is not depicted because he wasn't big on "the Law" the way Moses and those in the Old Testament were. Actually, having Moses there is more a nod to the Jews than Christianity. There is no sculpture of Jesus on the cross or the stone rolled away in the third day. Actually Christianity is excluded. Maybe you could get the ACLU to take your case. I don't have a problem with it that way. No one religion is excluded except Christianity. There can't be any discrimination or establishment of only one faith. That is what the Constitution says. The problem with many fundamentalists is that they only want their religion depicted to the exclusion of all others. You need to listen to both sides of the issue instead of the James Kennedy and the James Dobson types. They lie by only giving one side of the stories and exclude the whole picture. Like Paul Harvey says, "and now the rest of the story." Read and study. Any time you need to learn something I am always happy to help you.
Love ya!
posted by T. Glenn Hall at 9:38 AM
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