Roy's Rock (Note: Ten Commandments - Liberal ACLU Hugger)

MSNBC.Com / Newsweek ^ | 8/22/2003 | Eleanor Clift

[Bobby777]

Alabama residents are wreaking a nasty revenge on the woman who took their state’s chief justice to court over his religious monument

Aug. 22 — By stubbornly refusing a federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments monument in his courthouse, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has been hailed by Christian fundamentalists as a man of great courage. Lesser known, but no less courageous is the woman who dared stand up to Justice Moore.

FOR HIS DEFIANCE, Moore has become a home-state hero, paving the way for a future run for a U.S. Senate seat. For her brave stand, Melinda Maddox has been run out of town. “He’s the most popular man in Alabama, and I am the least popular woman,” says Maddox, a plaintiff in the lawsuit that declared Moore’s monument unconstitutional and called it “nothing less than an obtrusive year-round religious display.”

[Bobby777]

WAIT!!! Don't flame ME!!! ... LOL ... didn't see it posted ...

---------------------------------------

from the article ...

Maddox was ostracized and lost her practice.

uh, did she expect a ticker-tape parade?

[Bobby777]

Didn't see the normal "excerpt" link show up at first, so just in case, here it is ...

http://www.msnbc.com/news/956098.asp?cp1=1

[Bobby777]

Lesser known, but no less courageous is the woman who dared stand up to Justice Moore.

Eleanor, Eleanor, Eleanor ... it isn't "courage" that motivated Maddox ... but you haven't figured that out yet ...

[Bobby777]

ping ...

[thinktwice]

I wonder how many people know that the third commandment condones slavery.

Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day. Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, your God. No work may be done then either by you, or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives with you ... -- Exodus 20-8

[freebilly]

Eleanor, you ignorant slut....

[Cold Heat]

Horsefeces!

[thinktwice]

You are referrng to the Ten commandments as ... "horsefeces"?

Shame on you.

[Bobby777]

what version of the Bible are you quoting there? ... I'd have to look up the Hebrew root (or those that know it here) ... servant and "slave" can have two different connotations ...

Exodus 20:8-10 KJV

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

it was a common practice of those times (see: The Egyptians or The Babylonians) ...

but I don't care for slavery either ... regardless of the culture ...

[Bobby777]

hehe ...

[TFMcGuire]

It doesn't condone it it regulates a practice universally accepted at the time.

Wherever Christianity has gone, slavery has died.

Egg sucking liberals are the slavers. They would make everyone the chattels of the state.

[Cold Heat]

I do not know where you got that passage. The third is not even the sabbath commandment. (except in one of the Catholic versions.) In that version is only says a few words, "keep the sabbath day Holy"

Whatever that spew is, it is viewed by me to be sacrilege.

[Bobby777]

well-said ... I was trying to articulate what you clearly stated ...

a tip of the hat to you ...

[evangmlw]

Da? That would be the Fourth Commandment, not the third. Also, please be advised that the Sabbath Commandment was the only of the ten to not be renumerated by Jesus in the New Testament - it was voided. Biblical Christianity was very instrumental in freeing slaves, not placing man into bondage. Christ can also set you free from spiritual slavery, of which you seem to be a victim of.

[Bobby777]

I searched the KJV, the NASB, KJV21, NKJV, ASV even the NIV and, like you, didn't find it translated as "slave" in any of those versions ...

http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?passage=EXOD%2B20&showfn=on&showxref=on&language=english&version=KJV&x=10&y=11

[thinktwice]

Mine is the "Catholic Action Edition" of 1953.

Meanwhile, it amazes me to see that people have revised the Bible to reflect current "morality."

It was not until about 1840, for instance, that slavery was abolished within the British empire.

[Bobby777]

and the Apostle Paul advised Christian slaves to gain their freedom (peacefully) if possible to do so ... I'm having a little difficutly locating the exact chapter and verse or I'd post it ...

[Bobby777]

the "1611" King James has been pretty consistent since about 1769 ... I'd have to research the texts to know for sure if "slave" became "man-servant" / "maid-servant" since 1769 ... Perhaps our resident Hebrew scholars can provide additional info ...

[Cold Heat]

It never was. It was inserted by the poster.

I am not a bible student, nor a Christian, but I believe that God would abhor slavery and would certainly not condone it.

A servant is another matter. They are/were employed, not enslaved by men of God. It was a great honor to serve and the practice exists today. Well paid I might add.

[Bobby777]

given your first post, are you saying you support the removal of the Ten Commandments from that building? ...