Proposed Ten Commandments display has nothing to do with religion: Alabama county official

[dixiegrrrrl]

A Republican county commissioner in Scottsboro, Alabama wants to erect a monument to the Ten Commandments that would be featured alongside similar ones to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Tim Guffey told AL.com that “I’m trying to…erect a monument of historical documents. It’s the Constitution, the Ten Commandments and the Declaration of Independence. I feel like that’s what this country was founded on. These documents helped America become the greatest country in history.”

Get this:

Guffey claimed that the monument is necessary because of the way in which the Bible has been systematically removed from education curricula. “They don’t teach this at school anymore and a person would have to go back and research and study each one of those men’s writings to find out that that’s what established them. That’s what gave them the inspiration to read the greatest Constitution this world has ever seen,” he said.

Lastly:

He also told AL.com that he began studying the Constitution after the election of President Barack Obama.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/15/proposed-ten-commandments-display-has-nothing-to-do-with-religion-alabama-county-official/

the name "Scottsboro" may ring a bell with some folks.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

1. It does for me.

"Doesn't have to do anything with religion" -what a pantsload of crap.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Interesting that the Constitution wasn't worth a read when we had a white pResident.

Of course, it does explain a lot that went on under Cheney/Bu**sh**.

[WinkyDink]

3. "I feel like that’s what this country was founded on." Ah, America--Where "Feelings" Trump History.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism

http://freethought.mbdojo.com/foundingfathers.html

[gratuitous]

4. Not the magna carta?

The magna carta has a lot more to do with our present day law than the Ten Commandments.

Mr. Guffey's it's not religious" argument sort of falls apart when he complains that the Bible isn't taught in school anymore. Which makes me wonder if Mr. Guffey has actually read the Ten Commandments. I seem to recall that one of them had to do with a prohibition against lying.

It's nice to see, though, that Jackson County doesn't have any of the problems the rest of the country has, and is so flush with cash that this is all the County Commission has to occupy its time.

[enlightenment]

11. Or the Declaration of Arbroath?

Mr. Guffey can't string three words together without losing track of which one began his sentence.

[MohRokTah]

5. Exodus 20:1-17

1 And God spake all these words, saying,

2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

13 Thou shalt not kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

15 Thou shalt not steal.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Yeah, nothing about religion there.

[mr blur]

6. Sorry, but "...the greatest country in history"?

Oh dear.

[joeybee12]

7. Apparently not much has changed in Scottsboro...knr

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I am not kidding when I say I live in "Mayberry"

I do admit I love the small town feel, and do not miss city life at all.
But...under the folksy neighborliness, there is a lot of deep conservatism, and covert racism.
Not much change at all, as Ferguson shows.

[joeybee12]

9. I agree...I live in Vegas, so I'm still in a big city,

But i find more and more thinking a small town would be more liveable and less stressful, but as you say, under the surface of the friendliness...

[Baitball Blogger]

10. How about displaying them in a museum?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

12. The Bible should never have been part of public school cirricula. Religious beliefs should

be taught in the home or the church, synagogue, temple, etc.