Wednesday, March 2, 2005

WHAT IS AN ESTABLISHED RELIGION..?

The Consititution prevents Congress from establishing an official religion in the US..... So does this mean that any reference to religion is unconsititutional? We may soon know.

The Supreme Court has heard the "Ten Commandments" case.....wherein the Ten Commandments were displayed in a courthouse in the south. Unconsititutional?



Consider:

Will this mean that ALL RELIGIONS CAN DISPLAY THEIR SYMBOLS INSIDE THE COURTHOUSES OF AMERICA.....?

The Star of David? A small but tasteful "Hindu Temple Alter?" An Islmaic display of the Koran? What of the other religions.....there are hundreds of them...can they also have a place for a display in the courthouse?

And what of us agnositics and atheists....? (I'm merely an agnostic....I'm not smart enough to be an true atheist.) Can we have a display...? Perhaps a big:


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This could get confusing...and take up a lot of space.... True the Biblical Law of the Old Testament was "important" in the development of Western Civilization. But so was Plato and Aristotle....and St Augustine....and Magna Charta. And Buddha was important in the East and Confusius....and Zoroaster. I mean how do you decide....take a vote? And the ten most popular Gods "get in?"

If that's going to be the way it's done in the US....? I'll vote for a collossal statue of ZEUS!

NOW ZEUS.....THAT WAS A GOD FOR YOU.......Zeus rules, man. He kicks serious butt.... I vote for Zeus!




Postscript: See "Got Gods" in the side bar of this page......