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Satanic Monument
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RE: Satanic Monument
(July 27, 2015 at 2:51 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Display of the Ten Commandments, like the one in Arkansas, refer to the historical role they served in the development of civil laws. As such the monument has primarily historic significance and incidentally religious significance. Devil worship had no such positive historical influence and erecting a monument to Satan is only a religious statement. Thus it is easy to justify the preservation of the Ten Commandments and the exclusion of the Satan statue.

Really?  Come on, which of the 10 Commandments do you think really influenced the development of civil laws? 

Thou shalt have no other gods before me?  Unconstitutional.
No graven images?  Name a western country that enforced this one. 
Honor the Sabbath and keep it holy.  Well, we did have Sunday laws, but they are mostly unconstitutional.
Thou shalt not take the name of the lord in vain?  Unconstitutional and perhaps part of anti swearing legislation but hardly a major civil law development.
Honor your father and mother?  I think not.  There is law concerning parental rights, but it's hardly unique to Christian and/or Jewish nations.
Thou shalt no kill?  Again a law just about everywhere before and after the ten commandments.
Thou shalt not commit adultery?  Not law in most states.  And hardly unique to Christian and/or Jewish nations.
Thou shalt not lie? Never a law in that bald form.  Thou shalt not lie under oath, shall not commit fraud etc. yes.  And again hardly a Judeo/Christian contribution to the legal world.
Thou shalt not covet?  Not a law anywhere in the Judeo/Christian world.

Got any legal treatises referring to them seriously as the basis for western law?  Philosophy?  I think not.

Besides, there is nothing incidental about the religious significance.  The first four are wholly religious.  Only three others have any legal relevance.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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Satanic Monument - by IATIA - July 27, 2015 at 7:14 am
Satanic Monument - by KUSA - July 27, 2015 at 7:30 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by Jackalope - July 27, 2015 at 10:39 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by Minimalist - July 27, 2015 at 2:55 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Longhorn - July 27, 2015 at 7:49 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by vorlon13 - July 27, 2015 at 10:16 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by Redbeard The Pink - July 27, 2015 at 10:50 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by robvalue - July 27, 2015 at 10:55 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by Crossless1 - July 27, 2015 at 10:58 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by Exian - July 27, 2015 at 11:20 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by Ravenshire - July 27, 2015 at 10:30 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Crossless1 - July 27, 2015 at 12:56 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Neo-Scholastic - July 27, 2015 at 2:51 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Minimalist - July 27, 2015 at 2:56 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Longhorn - July 27, 2015 at 3:22 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by The Valkyrie - July 27, 2015 at 6:43 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by KevinM1 - July 27, 2015 at 7:09 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Ravenshire - July 27, 2015 at 10:32 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Wyrd of Gawd - July 28, 2015 at 3:23 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by Jenny A - July 29, 2015 at 12:42 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by The Valkyrie - July 27, 2015 at 3:34 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Godschild - July 27, 2015 at 5:58 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Longhorn - July 27, 2015 at 6:25 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Minimalist - July 27, 2015 at 5:59 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Redbeard The Pink - July 27, 2015 at 6:34 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Salacious B. Crumb - July 27, 2015 at 6:28 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Minimalist - July 27, 2015 at 8:37 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by IATIA - July 27, 2015 at 11:38 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Godschild - July 28, 2015 at 12:04 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Redbeard The Pink - July 28, 2015 at 12:19 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Godschild - July 28, 2015 at 1:51 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Redbeard The Pink - July 28, 2015 at 2:03 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Minimalist - July 28, 2015 at 2:29 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by robvalue - July 28, 2015 at 2:58 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by vorlon13 - July 28, 2015 at 10:20 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by JesusHChrist - July 28, 2015 at 2:49 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by robvalue - July 28, 2015 at 4:00 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by Wyrd of Gawd - July 28, 2015 at 4:10 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by Godschild - July 28, 2015 at 12:09 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Longhorn - July 28, 2015 at 12:13 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Crossless1 - July 28, 2015 at 2:31 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Ravenshire - July 28, 2015 at 4:49 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Neo-Scholastic - July 28, 2015 at 5:16 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Crossless1 - July 28, 2015 at 5:20 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by The Valkyrie - July 28, 2015 at 6:44 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Ravenshire - July 28, 2015 at 11:25 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Cato - July 29, 2015 at 12:28 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by Minimalist - July 29, 2015 at 1:38 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by robvalue - July 28, 2015 at 8:23 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by Homeless Nutter - July 28, 2015 at 8:30 am
RE: Satanic Monument - by vorlon13 - July 28, 2015 at 1:39 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Crossless1 - July 28, 2015 at 3:02 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Minimalist - July 28, 2015 at 7:24 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by Minimalist - July 28, 2015 at 11:30 pm
RE: Satanic Monument - by robvalue - July 29, 2015 at 2:42 am

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