Those Darn Fundies
OK, here we go again.
It seems like every fundamentalist in the country, especially those holding political office, has his or her undies in a bunch about the Alabama thing and feels the need to act on it somehow. This time it is Alabama Representative Robert Aderholt (R, what else?), who has submitted a bill that would essentially make it OK for state government offices to display religious monuments. Because, after all, that is the answer to all of society’s problems. A big piece of granite. Yeah. That’ll do it.
“The simple display of the Ten Commandments can in no way be considered an establishment of religion,” Aderholt claimed. Apparently, Aderholt does not possess a dictionary. Or maybe he just got tired of reading after the first three or four definitions of the word “establish” and figured the rest were just gonna be boring.
It’s gonna be a long Autumn….
I cannot figure out why all the fuss over the ten commandments.One would think the fundies would have them memorized,so why have them on display? Is it because it reminds them that they break most of them? The lord simplified them to just two, Love your God with all your might and your neighbor as yourself. Since they cannot keep those two why torure themselves with ten?
The issue for the fundies, I believe, is not celebration but proselytizing. They want to convert people. Think about school prayer. It’s not like religious kids don’t have the chance to pray anywhere else, they can pray all day and night long. The idea of school prayer is not to give kids a chance to pray, it is to force prayer on all the kids who are not religious. Another aim is to overthrow the first amendment regarding church and state, and make Christianity the state religion.