Ten Commandments

Jukebox: Fresh Air

I'm currently listening to a Fresh Air segment from a while back. The news is talking about the "10 commandments" thing in public places. It just reminded me of a while back there was a "10 commandment" thing in a park in a small town in Nebraska. I forget the guy's name, but he was an athiest. The town was all in an uproar.

He admitted in print that he didn't care about the monument at all. It was there and he respected it and didn't say anything about it. The only reason he did start his whole thing was because of everything happenning in our nation at that time the Conservative/Fundamentalist-Republicans were throwing their religious beliefs all over the constitution and all that shit. Because of their fucking shovelling all that down peoples' throats and slowly erasing that now fine-line between separation of church and state. Because they want to force their beliefs on an American public he decided it was time for him to take action.

So they pretty much brought this upon themselves. Wasting all this stupid time and nonsense. At least he's not L. Ron Hubbard.

Speaking of that church and state thing, I was reading the 800 page obituary piece the LA Times had for Renquist. Renquist's thing on that was that Jefferson had a different meaning for "separation of church & state." His meaning was something that I can't remember, but remember it being stupid. The LA Times might've been out of context, but you can find the info online.