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Thread #79712   Message #1459074
Posted By: CarolC
12-Apr-05 - 11:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
Subject: RE: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
All well and good everyone. But if we are going to acknowledge the Pagan origins of our day names and our judical symbolism, we need to stop calling the US a "Judeo/Christian" nation, because it quite clearly is not. And that's fine with me, because it takes some of the wind out of the sails of the religious right when they try to support their positions by saying that, after all, this nation is founded upon Judeo/Christian principles.

But I bet if we were to do that, the Christian right (particularly in the South, as Ron has mentioned) would be the first to make the moves that some of you have been, rather glibly, suggesting, to have the names and symbolism changed.