Ironically the ten commandments belonged to the Jews, so this would be a
Jewish religious monument.
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Steve
S/V Pony Express

"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
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They claimed 78% of the state was opposed to moving a Christian religious
monument.... that in no way indicates a minority. Can't you see how this
is
viewed around the world? ... and it is being viewed I assure you. In
Canada
we don't seem to have the religious zealots in the numbers you have in the
USA.

Weather you claim that it is representative or not... your own media is
doing more to damage your image than you seem to understand. Other
countries
will look at this and see little difference between the Christian Fanatics
and the Muslim Fanatics.

CM

"katysails" wrote in message
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Mooron,
Those people are hardly representative of the religious people of the USA.
They, also, are fanatics in their own way.

The census figures for religions in 1989 we
Religions: Protestant 56%, Roman Catholic 28%, Jewish 2%, other 4%, none
10%

Protestant incorporates many different religions, some "catholic" in their
viewpoints (Episcopalian, Lutheran, etc) and then there are the Calvinists
(Presbyterians, Reformed, etc.), and then you have the Baptists and
Methodists and Congregationalists, which are all pretty mainstream. And
then
you have the fundamentalists. Isn't it funny, that whenever you see the
word fundamentalist, you can almost always also use the word fanatic?
These
people are a small percentage of the religious community, but they shout
loud, shake fist harder, and bully their way through to make their point,
which is unassailable (according to their tenants). There are more
Catholics in the USA then any one other religion. Did you see them out
there sitting on the stone? They didn't. And neither did most of the
Protestants. Stop making over generalizations about loudmouthed boors
that
try to foist their ideas and their holy righteousness on everyone else in
the name of God, democracy, and union. Religion really has nothing to do
with this issue at all. These people haven't yet realized that if you
cannot keep the law un your heart, you cannot keep the law in your life.



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