Christians say the darndest things Apparently the fuss and fever over public display of the Ten Commandments in Alabama isn't over yet, as Roy Moore continues to stamp his foot in defiance of a federal court ordering him to have them removed from his courthouse. Now there are even people protesting outside the building.
Now I am dumb, Harry, and can sometimes have a change of mind if I'm persuaded by more reasonable people, but I fail to see exactly what "good" these Christians (or anyone else for that matter) hope to accomplish by this whole uproar of the public display of the Ten Commandments. It seems to me that, if your goal is to create converts, the one thing you would want to avoid is creating unnecessary animosity.
Now, I'm not an expert on constitutional law by any means, but the legality and such of their argument is not what interests me. I will say that the assertion I often hear about "the Ten Commandments are the basis for this country's laws" is at least seven-tenths bunk, considering one can violate seven of the ten commandments without breaking the law of the land. There is no mythical moral "sway" that the TC have over people in that reading them isn't any more likely to make a man moral than not. What it does is create a lightning rod for controversy in the press and mass media, and thusly encourages another negative stereotype about Christians. People who want to put Christian symbols "in" the public square and keep others "out" end up making more enemies than converts.
It seems a little disgraceful, really.
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