alt.education

buckeye wrote:

> Darrell Stec wrote:
>
> Antonin Scalia v. Thomas Jefferson
> Message #12373 of 12375
> Re: Antonin Scalia v. Thomas Jefferson
>
> --- In HRSepCnS@yahoogroups.com, "buckeyeelo" wrote:
>>
>> From: Darrell
>> Subject: Re: Antonin Scalia v. Thomas Jefferson
>> Newsgroups:
>
> Darell says: The text specifically says that Moses was
> called up to the mountain a second time for a remake of the originally
> broken stones. The words are as plain as day in either English or Hebrew.
>
> And also: For you to be correct there
> could only be ten words in any of the version.
>
> And also: The other two sets are not called the ten commandments.
> Nowhere in scripture are those ten things about lying and
> murder called the ten commandments. The only ones that specifically
> say they were the commandments of the original tablets and which are
> assumed by Jew and Christian alike to have been the broken ten
> commandments are the ones in Exodus 34.
>
> And who the hell is Jim McMeans and why have you screwed around with
> the sequence of the attributes and nesting of this thread?
>
> Jim Replies:
> The purpose of this post is to share some background information on
> the origin of what Christians call the Ten Commandments and what Jews
> call the "Ten Words, Things or Statements".
[snipped a bunch of erroneous crap that is copied on several hundred
thousand websites.

Repeating misinformation a million times will still not correct it the first
time it was in error.

>
> ***************************************************************
> You are invited to check out the following:
>
> The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
> http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
>
> American Theocrats - Past and Present
> http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
>
> The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
> http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
>
> [and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
> Church and State in general, listed below]
>
> HRSepCnS · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
>
> ***************************************************************
> . . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
> respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
> take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why
> "a
> page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v.
> Eisner, 256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes,
> J.). Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir.
> 1992) . . .
> ****************************************************************
> USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
>
> "You pilot always into an unknown future;
> facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
>
> That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
> many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
>
> It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
> plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
> almost every media turn.
>
> *****************************************************************
> THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
> SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
>
> http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
> ****************************************************************

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Later,
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