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So with the removal of the ten commandments monument from a government property.

And the removal of the confederate flag about to happen because it reminds people of a time of hate and slavery.

The topic of the monument to honor slaves that is on the backside of the state house where the confederate flag is to be removed, has now come up that, that monument should be removed as well.


Thoughts?

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Might as well tear down museums and burn the history books while we're at it.

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Thats is pretty much how I feel about it.

I live in the oldest inland city in south carolina. There was Charlestown then camden.

And with in two miles of my house there are probably 30 monuments to history, all at governments run parks.
most of which is from the civil war since several battles took place here as well as revolutionary monuments.

Cornwallis' s house that he used as his head quarters is even in this town and they do reenactments every year there. A house the Lincoln's sister owned is in this town.

I can see this getting ugly real quick, where is the line going to be drawn. No matter what we do you can't please everyone.

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Im really surprised dollar bills still say In God we Trust. No other comments.

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As long as we (meaning the government, politicians, media, and general public) keep giving in to those who are continually offended, they'll just keep coming up with more and more absurd things to get offended about. It'll never be enough, they'll always want more. As the old saying goes, "Give an inch and they'll take a mile."

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We are witnessing the "white washing" and "sanitization" of America. This is only the start.

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So the consensus for those participating in this thread so far is a dislike of what is happening with the removal of monuments from government buildings.

If you'd rather have these items stay, would you be okay with things being added? What if some Buddhist group did something noteworthy for a state. Would it be okay then to put a Buddha statue in a government building?

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No words describe how rediculous ^^^ this ^^^ is.

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As I recall, the founding fathers of this country left England because of the tyrannical rule of the King. A king which was being heavily influenced by the church.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." means a) the government can't prohibited the the practice of religion. And b) it may not promote any one specific religion. This country was build on a foundation of religious freedom, we are not to be governed by one.

Having a giant 10 commandments monument at the capitol sure feels an awful lot like the government endorsing one specific religion.

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I can agree with that.

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What is it about it that's ridiculous?

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I have thought about this actually. And since the removal of the flag which is on the premise of it being a reminder of time of hate and is offensive.

I can see why the statue is being discussed to be removed as its a reminder of the same thing.

However I also thought maybe to ease those that dont want the flag removed to have a confederate military statue placed next to to the one about slavery.

Or just move the one about slavery to another park as that's more appropriate.

Leave the government buildings plain so they can just focus on government. And make parks the place to do the remembering

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They just finished making our money look the same as most third world countries.

It'll happen, but might take a bit since they just redid all the bills not to long ago.

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I think we should ban and remove everything, there's nothing else going on in the world right now, seems like a good time.

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How do our bills look like 3rd world countries lol...

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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/...-monument.html
The law was very clear on the fact that it should be removed. this is oklahomas law.

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Well buddhism is one thing. But would you agree with putting a statue of Satan, for the satanic churches? Or how about a monument to Xenu, the overlord in scientologies book?

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How about the fact that this nation was built on Christian values which does no one any harm. Or that fact that people want to come to America because of what its stands for, but then want to change it into where they came from.

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Did you really just say Christian Values does no one any harm... History tends to disagree with you completely.

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The Christian values that harm no one are very strong in the Catholic church that I am actually a part of.. Lots of priests going to prison lately.

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Oh Tom, its a new age,... remember? History has been rewritten to tell you the crusades that happened centuries ago where an attack by the Catholic church when in reality it was in response to Muslim attacks on Christians.
Kind of like what's going on today,.....

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And are they going to prison because they followed those values,......?

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America was founded on the basis of religious freedom, at least according to the Constitution. The word "Christian" isn't anywhere in any document describing our government.

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Wait, founding fathers said we should built the country's foundations according to a church?

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The Crusades
The Salem Witch Trials
the 30 Years war (40% of the population destroyed mostly in germany)
Various wars vs Protestents
1648 Chmielnitzki massacres in poland (200,000 jews slain)
Atrocities against Native Americans, from genocides to taking children and putting them in white washing schools in Oklahoma which happened against a large number of the midwest indians.
There have been MILLIONS Exterminated and lives ruined due to your christian values and history, and we are not talking about just old time history, we are talking fairly recent history, however christians sure are quick to wash over this and act like it didnt happen and wont happen again.

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I know Tom,... those evil ten commandments,.... what where they thinking?

And why do you say, "your"? I didn't write them. But please explain what was so wrong with them,.... please.

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They are commandments set in a specific religion. So you tell me if these are valid for all religions and people without religion.

1. I am the lord thy god. - Cant get any more specific than that
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me - Uhm yeah
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image - Hmm that seems like an islamic passage about muhummad
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain - God Dammit, that is against my free speech.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy - But football is on sunday
5. Honour thy father and thy mother - That seems pretty logical, but you didnt need to tell me that
6. Thou shalt not kill - I guess christians of history just skipped this one
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery - Not a whole lot of christians care about this one either
8. Thou shalt not steal - Could have gotten this on on our own
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour - Dont lie to your neighbor, sure.
10. Thou shalt not covet (neighbor's wife) - Pretty much the same as adultery but oh well.
theres 11 because depending on which account you follow the first two are intermingled.
So tell me, how is this not mixing church and state as per the rules outlined in oklahomas constitution.

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Very simple, the "state" is not forcing you to follow them, nor are they making you follow a specific religion, which is what the "separation of church and state" was about. What they are is nothing more than examples of what the founding fathers used as guiding principles to draft the constitution and are a part of American history all the way back to before 1776, not centuries before that for crusades, etc. So drop the white guilt, the religious guilt, the immigrant guilt, the Indian guilt, the Crusades guilt, the Confederate guilt, .... we forgive you.

Geeez, with all this anti-religion animosity, I'm really starting to wonder if you were molested by a priest while on the crusades or something the way you go on about it?

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Ten commandments = Christian beliefs. If they are okay, then Buddhist precepts are also okay as well as Muslim laws. Since those who think the Christian beliefs are okay, but nothing else is okay, then a state of intolerance exists.

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Ah, but the difference is that the Buddhist didn't found this country using Buddhist beliefs, nor was it Muslims using Sharia law. Christians did using Christian beliefs, they are our history and there is nothing wrong with that. Did they not teach you that in school? That's why when you go to India, you see Buddhist beliefs, not Christian beliefs. So by your way of thinking, India should take down the Buddhist temples so as to not offend migrant Christians? And there is no state of intolerance, that's made up leftist garb. You are free to practice any religion you like without government interference.

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For the sake of argument, let's say America was founded on Christian beliefs. There are currently and historically a significant number of people with other beliefs that are citizens. They are all part of the history of America. Are you saying early history trumps recent history?

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No. What I'm saying is that America's history is what it is. Early history vs Recent history, what does that even mean? Nothing recent has anything to do with the founding of this country and it's ideals. And that's what those monuments and plagues and statues are all about.

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Okay, if America actually was founded on Christian values, that would be a fair argument. I personally don't believe it was founded on Christian values and was taught that in church, but not in school.

The 1797 Treaty of Tripoli says this “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen.....

It was signed off by President John Adams in 1797 and ratified unanimously by the senate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli

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I didn't say the country was founded on the Christian religion, I said Christian values and there is a difference. The founders thought highly enough of what Christianity stood for to use those values as guiding principles.

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But did the gov. Pay for it?

I know several of the monuments here were privately donated.

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Satan crap - resounding hell no I would be "offended". But that's because I dont agree with whay he stands for. And that also goes for religions that preach hate. And promote killings.

Scientology - i dont know anything about it other then the big bang theory is what i always thought that is what they believe. And the answer to that would be yes, but since we are taking all religion out of our gov.

Then put this stuff in museums or a dedicated building.

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Edit - it double posted

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I guess I was the only lucky one to travel as a child all over the world.

And yes our bills look just like what poverished countries I have traveled to. Money looked like back then

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I'm not quite sure I see the distinction. What values are we founded on that are Christian?