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Thread #79712   Message #1469607
Posted By: Ebbie
24-Apr-05 - 06:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
Subject: RE: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
Columnist Ellen Goodman: "In this monumental epic, however, let me side with Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Commmittee: "How strange it is to create a graven image out of a document that says we are not supposed to have any graven images!"

Commandment 4: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Commandment 5: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

And then the loyal people literally prostrated themselves before it! LOL