The Ten Commandments in Schools
Dear Daddy:
What with all the shootings and drugs and mess going on, why is there
such resistance to just testing out whether posting the "Ten Commandments" in
the schools would help things? Aren't most people, and even most religions,
more or less in agreement with these basic teachings?
-- Fan of the Big Ten
Dear Fan:
This would seem to be a pretty easy thing to try out, wouldn't it--and
cost effective! What does a simple plaque placed in the main hall cost per
school--$20? Maybe with polycarbonate protective case and 24-hour fire and
theft monitoring, the cost would go up a bit, but hey, if it saves just one
life....wouldn't it be worth it?
But no, the cost would be extraordinarily high because there is no
symbol-with-substance to compare with the Ten Commandments. To reflect on
them at all -- to acknowledge their existence and explore their content -- is
just devastating to the humanist experiment going on now in America.
It is kinda funny in a way, that, taken in bits and pieces, the various
Commandments get favorable ratings from the population at large. All your
neighbors will pretty much help you obey numbers 5 thru 10, at least as far
as you're not doing these things to them!
Yes, the bottom six are the public's favorites, if one doesn't take them
too far. Like including killing unborn babes in the one about murdering. Or
broadening adultery to include people who are really in love, but unmarried
(or are devoted sodomites). And including just a few lustful thoughts in the
anti-covet part -- or not allowing at least a few "white lies."
Come to think of it, this is getting kind of tough on us -- what do you
want to happen, bring some kind of guilt thing on us? Then what would we do?
Hire more grief counselors?
But the really unacceptable ones are the first four. They are all about
God--what He expects from us, and what He will not allow. He comes out kind
of exclusive-like, bossy and even meddling in our cherished Free Speech area
with that arrogant "Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain"
bit.
Nope, putting all these together, in one list, is way too much for this
America. Not just too much for the schools, mind you, too much for most of
what passes for the Christian church these days!
We love our state and we worship it as the source of everything necessary
and good. Those who run it for us know there can be no compromise with any
of that Old Testament stuff. The State is a jealous god. Do not anger him
any more with such talk. Or you will have to be dealt with.
Daddy.
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Death Penalty 'Balance'
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