Goodbye to Another Ten Commandments Monument


The city of Dover, Ohio, displayed on publicly owned property a Ten Commandments monument and, during the holidays, a manager scene. A local resident complained to the Freedom From Religion Foundation and both have been moved. The Freedom From Religion Foundation has dealt with over 750 complaints in recent years. The U.S. is a better place for the work of the FFRF.

Dover is not a big place, 12,000 people. But it is huge in the national debate about separation of church and state. In 2005 local Dover citizens took their School Board to court over the school's practice of teaching "Intelligent Design" along with evolution. The Board's requirement to teach intelligent design was ruled to be in violation of our Constitutional separation of church and state. The case turned against the School Board when documents from inside the intelligent design operatives admitted it was identical to Christian creationism. Apparently Dover is a city with a strong religious lobby but an equally strong secular group.

Ten Commandment monuments, crosses and Jesus statues are displayed across the U.S. While there is a steady effort by secular people to get rid of them they mostly remain in place. This is because those of us who want them removed are mostly atheists. Atheists are not seen as having a legitimate complaint.

There is another route that would bury a lot of them. This is requests and legal action by other religions. If, for example, Hindu people were the ones requesting removal of crosses or installation of their own huge religious symbols it would be game over.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/ohio-city-removes-nativity-ten-commandments-display-from-public-property-after-atheist-complaint.html

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  1. tsmMarch 4, 2019 at 4:29 PM

    how long before you fanatics will try to ban religious displays on private property?

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  2. tsmMarch 4, 2019 at 7:51 PM

    Hey, what would your outfit do if a city posted a quote (say a quote on natural law) from Thomas Aquinas and posted it on the courthouse wall? Or a quote from the Koran? Or a quote from Martin Luther, say a quote on justification or the Two Swords? And all the crap re different versions of the Ten Commandments. What does that have to do with anything? Besides who is offended by or distraught by a display of the Big Ten? Very few, I think, other than the fanatics who run the outfit that you claim is doing so much "good" for the country?

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    1. Jon LindgrenMarch 5, 2019 at 6:10 AM

      "...who is offended by ....a display of the Big Ten? Very few, I think..." There are a few of us who don't like that apparent approval of polygamy and slavery in the Big Ten. And others like our Constitution and have a problem with violations of it.

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    2. tsmMarch 5, 2019 at 7:22 AM

      why should you be offended by polygamy? don't you believe that "marriage" is anything that we might "think" that it is? As to slavery, guess we will have to give up on Plato and Aristotle and lots of other classical folks. And tear down Confederate statues. Mostly I suppose so that we can indulge our overbearing self-righteousness. I think that if your people were really tuned into reality, you find better things to do that tear down crosses, etc. Like upholding free speech, rational political discourse, condemning the endemic lying and sophistry in today's political discourse, calling into account the fools that think we can wean ourselves off of fossil fuels in the next few years. That said, why bother?It is what it is.

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