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It's not all about you personally. Like I said. Move to somewhere more congenial. There are tons and tons and tons of places more congenial to your views. Hell, most places I have lived are more congenial to your views.

eta, Isn't wrapping yourself in the flag disrespecting the flag?

I don't treat it as a napkin*, so no.

*Sanitary, or otherwise.

SlaveNoMore

07-01-2005 10:50 PM

The 2 Tablets...er...Treatises

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sgtclub
So what? Does that justify infusing government with Judeo/Christian symbols? If so, why the establishment clause? Or do you read it literally?

It justifies leaving certain symbols, beliefs that are integral to our country's heritage as vestigal, integral and universal.

I am not - by the way - expanding anything beyond the understanding of the Founding Fathers.

If anything, they understood religious prosecution and "established" religion far more than current American citizens born here in the US.

Sidd Finch

07-01-2005 11:12 PM

The 2 Tablets...er...Treatises

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
It justifies leaving certain symbols, beliefs that are integral to our country's heritage as vestigal, integral and universal.

I am not - by the way - expanding anything beyond the understanding of the Founding Fathers.

If anything, they understood religious prosecution and "established" religion far more than current American citizens born here in the US.

Was it typical in the early 19th century to have the Ten Commandments posted in courtrooms?

Tyrone Slothrop

07-01-2005 11:14 PM

Enough with the holier-than-thou stuff.

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Seeing as it been translated into Greek, then Latin, then German, and etc., this is not surprising.

Hopefully, he will delve into substantial changes rather than mere translation anomalies

What you call a "translation anomaly" is an endorsement of one denomination over another.

Hank Chinaski

07-01-2005 11:22 PM

Enough with the holier-than-thou stuff.

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Tell me your wife wants to find herself in a courtroom in Kentucky with the ten commandments on the wall.

Is xenophobia the word for when you think you are better than another part of your own country?

SlaveNoMore

07-02-2005 01:14 AM

Tomayto, Tomahto

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Tyrone Slothrop
What you call a "translation anomaly" is an endorsement of one denomination over another.

Droll.

Tyrone Slothrop

07-02-2005 01:39 AM

Enough with the holier-than-thou stuff.

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Is xenophobia the word for when you think you are better than another part of your own country?

I have relatives in Kentucky, which is where the Supreme Court case about hanging the Ten Commandments in the courtroom came from. Jesus.

SlaveNoMore

07-02-2005 02:03 AM

Enough with the holier-than-thou stuff.

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Tyrone Slothrop
I have relatives in Kentucky, which is where the Supreme Court case about hanging the Ten Commandments in the courtroom came from. Jesus.

One more time. The Ten Commandments have NOTHING to do with Jesus.

Sheesh.

Penske_Account

07-02-2005 03:18 AM

Note to all of you

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Latitude 46º Clifton Cuvee 2004

Don't let the seeming youth of this wine put you off, it's intended as a positive and is. That's because this blend of 76% syrah and 24% Grenache bursts with sappy, fresh fruit and is wrapped in a texture that invites drinking with summer meals. While it is not a light wine, at 14.5% alcohol, there is bright quality that I do not find in many Washington syrah based wines.

Very enjoyable wine to accompany some nice cheese and crackers and multiple talking head shows about the nomination.

I may need to crack another bottle of this tomorrow.

Ty, how was the italian?

Penske_Account

07-02-2005 03:20 AM

Lincoln versus Bush

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
"I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

Abraham Lincoln, September 18, 1858

It may be statements like this that keep Obama from "swallowing whole" the idea of Lincoln as Great Emancipator.

the conscience of Obama's (and your) party is this racist fuck:

http://www.strangepolitics.com/image...ent/105276.jpg

Hey Barak, you just lost my vote in perpetuity.

taxwonk

07-02-2005 11:27 AM

Shocker

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
When L Ron Hubbard returns from the dead and starts turning water into wine, perhaps I'll listen.

Funny, I didn't know you were Jewish.

taxwonk

07-02-2005 11:29 AM

Shocker

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
......and neither Jesus nor Hubbard deflowered five year olds.

Why are you dragging Koresh into the debate?

Hank Chinaski

07-02-2005 11:57 AM

Enough with the holier-than-thou stuff.

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I have relatives in Kentucky, which is where the Supreme Court case about hanging the Ten Commandments in the courtroom came from. Jesus.

Back to your original question: What would she be on trial for? Moonshining I'm willing to trust the good people of Kentucky.

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