On Dec 8, 2004, at 7:49 PM, Dave Land wrote:
(BTW did you look over the stuff from the tencommandments.org kooks? Spooky. They're ready to crash a few airplanes themselves, it seems like.)
I've heard about various "let's replace the Constitution and laws of
the USA with the 10 Commandments" types, but hadn't gone very deep into
their thinking. I'm happy to call myself a Christian, but have serious
doubts about a group that claims to want to "insure the proper
punishment of all true criminal heathens who deny God, insure the reward
of the righteous who honor God." Last time I checked, that was the job
of God.
Not just according to the Bible; the Koran's very clear on the subject as well. What I find striking, though, is that these loons sound almost exactly like Jihadists, but if you were to point that out to them they'd be utterly unable, most likely, to see the similarity.
I suppose one could argue that enacting the laws of some deity or other in physical form is a kind of hubris. Or possibly blasphemy. I don't know that the Ten Commandments literalists can really call themselves Christian, though; wasn't it Jesus who said he brought a new law? I'd think that to be pretty unambiguous.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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