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Re: Mormon bashing again
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 05:36:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kya Morden writes:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 02:06:15 GMT, "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com>
> wrote:
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> > And whether you think that posting them doesn't endorse Christianity or not,
> > the perception is one of endorsement, and that is something which is
> > critical, especially when it comes to posting them in a court room.
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> An extreme example of this would be walking into a government building
> and seeing a swastika mounted on the wall. Now, I don't know about
> you, but I would very quickly get the impression that which ever
> government agency was housed in said building was quite in favour of
> said evil organization.
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> At any rate, my view on the 10 Commandments issue is don't post them,
> if you are going to post them, post not only the 10 Commandments, post
> the Four Nobel Truths/Eight-Fold Path, and the equivalient of other
> major world religions.
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> Then they wouldn't be favouring any particular religion because in
> this case, by posting the 10 Commandments they are blatently favouring
> Christianity in a typical arrogant american-centric way.
No, they would be favouring Judeism, as the 10 Commandments were given to
Moses, who at the time was leading the Israelites out of Egypt. They were
Jews. Christianity is based on Judeism with one fundamental difference - we
believe that Jesus is the Saviour that the Jews are waiting for.
Jesus was born a Jew, and by that time the 10 Commandments had expanded to
approximately 400 or so fundamental rules of Jewish religeon, zealously
policed by the religeous leaders of the time. Jesus summed up all the
Commandments in two simple but powerful ones "Love the Lord your God ..., and
love your neighbour as yourself".
Pete Callaway
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