It's funny and makes me laugh. Then I remember that scores of people have died throughout history in the name of this deity, amongst many others. Sigh.
Texas wants the 10 commandments displayed in schools, presumably because they're important. Yet how many Texans are killing people and/or being killed (not to mention being neglected to de…
It's funny and makes me laugh. Then I remember that scores of people have died throughout history in the name of this deity, amongst many others. Sigh.
Texas wants the 10 commandments displayed in schools, presumably because they're important. Yet how many Texans are killing people and/or being killed (not to mention being neglected to death)? Apparently commandments are negotiable.
"Millions of people have died throughout history in the name of this deity". Uh-huh, and then there are the millions who died under Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others too numerous too mention throughout history, because of their ideology or they just wanted power--nothing to do with any deity. Maybe people can just be really horrible, and those who try to believe that a loving God wants them to love others too follow more positive principles. "Tikkun olam"--"repairing of the world" in Judaism; "Whatever you do to the least of others you do to me"--Christianity; and I am sure there is something like that to cite in Buddhism, Hinduism, or Islam, but I don't know them.
It's funny and makes me laugh. Then I remember that scores of people have died throughout history in the name of this deity, amongst many others. Sigh.
Texas wants the 10 commandments displayed in schools, presumably because they're important. Yet how many Texans are killing people and/or being killed (not to mention being neglected to death)? Apparently commandments are negotiable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/21/texas-bill-ten-commandments-public-schools-religion/
1. "Scores of people have died"
Give or take millions upon millions.
2. Obviously all of our problems can be traced back to not having the commandments in schools and courthouses.
"Millions of people have died throughout history in the name of this deity". Uh-huh, and then there are the millions who died under Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others too numerous too mention throughout history, because of their ideology or they just wanted power--nothing to do with any deity. Maybe people can just be really horrible, and those who try to believe that a loving God wants them to love others too follow more positive principles. "Tikkun olam"--"repairing of the world" in Judaism; "Whatever you do to the least of others you do to me"--Christianity; and I am sure there is something like that to cite in Buddhism, Hinduism, or Islam, but I don't know them.
That reminds me of that Stalin quote "The murder of an individual is a tragedy but murder of a million is a statistic."