The Onion Weighs in on the Ten Commandments

[BDawg]

The Onion: What do you think?

"I support its removal. A monument to the Ten Commandments is a graven image, and therefore blasphemous."

"I know they have to take down the big granite monument at the Judicial Building, but what about the small tin sign tacked up in the Negro Courtshack?"

 

[Red Dawn]

"Let them have their statue. It's Alabama. No one there can read it, anyway."

 

[aircooled]

"At the rate the liberals are going, it won't be long before our country has an official policy mandating the separation of church and state."
Stanley Welty
Systems Analyst

LOL!!!!! 🙂

 

[Pers]

Originally posted by: aircooled

"At the rate the liberals are going, it won't be long before our country has an official policy mandating the separation of church and state."
Stanley Welty
Systems Analyst

LOL!!!!! 🙂

i don't get it

 

[tcsenter]

"At the rate the liberals are going, it won't be long before our country has an official policy mandating the separation of church and state."

i don't get it

It means a few people at The Onion actually believe the words 'separation of church and state' appear somewhere in the First Amendment. So they're mocking the idea that some people believe those words don't appear in the First Amendment.

Sorta like some people believe the words "right to privacy" actually appear in the Fourth Amendment and would then mock or attack those people who say there is no general right of privacy in the Fourth Amendment.

Irony is so.......ironic.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

"At the rate the liberals are going, it won't be long before our country has an official policy mandating the separation of church and state."

i don't get it

It means a few people at The Onion actually believe the words 'separation of church and state' appear somewhere in the First Amendment. So they're mocking the idea that some people believe those words don't appear in the First Amendment.

Sorta like some people believe the words "right to privacy" actually appear in the Fourth Amendment and would then mock or attack those people who say there is no general right of privacy in the Fourth Amendment.

Irony is so.......ironic.

Not the words, just the general idea.

 

[tcsenter]

Not the words, just the general idea.

Understood. But wouldn't it have made for an even more witty and - more to the point - correct satire had "The Onion" chose instead to make fun of the people who have some how imagined that an amendment whose expressed purpose was to prohibit the establishment of a State Religion by Congress, binding upon the state legislatures via the 14th Amendment, actually means a general prohibition on all public institutions and all public servants from permitting or participating in all forms of expression which might be construed - however tenuously or unreasonably - to be 'advancing' or 'promoting' even the most general of religious sentiments?

For instance: wouldn't it have been an even more witty and - more to the point - correct satire had "The Onion" chose instead to write-up a mocking story about atheists and the ACLU, under this imagined meaning of the First Amendment, suing the United States of America to have the many instances of "The Year of Our Lord" or other references to "God" stricken from all the founding and historical documents of the United States, including the Constitution and Declaration of Independence itself?

Or maybe "The Onion" already did one like that and I missed it.