Discussion: Ten Commandments Monument Finally Removed From Okla. Capital

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Satan will throw an after party tonight in the Statehouse rotunda. All are welcome. Except the Irish.

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Yay! A victory for shit that was decided and should have been put to bed decades ago! The Progress Train is really chugging along now!

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Who will be the first Sky Pilot to scream that plagues of frogs and flaming hail will now strike Oklahoma?

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$50 says Huckabee.

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Dismantle the thing and use the masonry for a storm drain.

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My money’s on Robertson.

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Eric Burdon?

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XI Thou shalt store a copy at an Oklahoma think tank.

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What should go in its place? Put your answer below.

I’ll start: “The title page for 'Heidi.”

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The state paid a contractor $4,700…Yet the state did not use taxpayer funds

How does that work? The Governor sell lemonade on hot days?

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Oklahoma is its own plague…

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It still beats living in Pestilence, Kansas.

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“The lyrics for the ‘Number 9’ cut off the Beatles White Album.”

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When will Christians learn that it’s unconstitutional to use the power of government to force their beliefs on everyone else? It’s time to remove ‘In God We Trust’ from our money and monuments and ‘under God’ from our pledge.

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“If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look no further than the Jains: Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: ‘Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.’ Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept. Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a theologically defensible reading of the Bible.”
________Sam Harris

And after the weeping, wailing and gnashing of tooth’ by the Fundies, Baggers and assorted Rightie Wingnuts, one must conclude that Oklahoma will survive without that monstrosity on the lawn of the capitol.
Undoubtedly it will be replaced by the Republican Ten Commandments shortly:
http://newsexaminer.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/gop10commandments.jpg

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Next up: “No wonder OK is having budget problems.”

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Good riddance!