Re: Planet America
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 3:29 am
Silver lining department on the 10 commandments law:
First, electorally. Anyone who likes this law would have voted for Trump, no matter what. By so blatantly ignoring our modern culture and taking a step back to the 19th or 18th century, it might give some people pause about who they are voting for.
Second, aome of us here, and a lot at JREF/ISF, grew up Christian. So why did we leave the faith? That's a perennial topic at ISF, and the most commone reason is that we learned something about the Bible or about our own religion that made us realize there is some sort of inconsistency. From that point, it's a house of cards. Introduce any sort of doubt, and it crashed down.
There are plenty of people who are going to be surprised to learn that the Bible doesn't spell out 10 commandments in a numbered or bulleted list. There are 13 lines on that required poster. That's the kind of thing that might make a handful of believers say, "Wait.....you mean, the numbering isn't in there? Jews, Catholics, and Protestants have different versions? But the Catholics didn't change anything?" The publicity generated by this case might prompt some people to read "what it really says", and they'll find that the Bible doesn't really say what they've been taught. It won't be a lot of people thus affected, but there might be a few.
First, electorally. Anyone who likes this law would have voted for Trump, no matter what. By so blatantly ignoring our modern culture and taking a step back to the 19th or 18th century, it might give some people pause about who they are voting for.
Second, aome of us here, and a lot at JREF/ISF, grew up Christian. So why did we leave the faith? That's a perennial topic at ISF, and the most commone reason is that we learned something about the Bible or about our own religion that made us realize there is some sort of inconsistency. From that point, it's a house of cards. Introduce any sort of doubt, and it crashed down.
There are plenty of people who are going to be surprised to learn that the Bible doesn't spell out 10 commandments in a numbered or bulleted list. There are 13 lines on that required poster. That's the kind of thing that might make a handful of believers say, "Wait.....you mean, the numbering isn't in there? Jews, Catholics, and Protestants have different versions? But the Catholics didn't change anything?" The publicity generated by this case might prompt some people to read "what it really says", and they'll find that the Bible doesn't really say what they've been taught. It won't be a lot of people thus affected, but there might be a few.