3? I’d say more like 2 1/2:
But your point is well taken. I get particularly upset when folks claim that the 10 Commandments are part of our shared cultural heritage and are generic enough that they don’t really endorse any one religion. Did they bother reading the first one on the list?
Psssst. We accept donations, we don’t make them.
Then again, vexing the Pinks…
Vexing the Pinks in the service to the Lurker at the Threshold?
While Calling Down the Moon?
Count me in!
Nah. I’m at work, so I don’t have the appropriate cite handy, so I’ll have to so this from memory. In the book of Matthew Jesus says something like “Do not be like the pharisees who like to stand on the street corner and pray loudly for their reward is on earth.” I wonder how these people feel about directly disobeying Christ. Then again, I’m not sure they realize they’re doing it.
CJ
If I bought the plot of land, I would then buy the Necronomicon prop book from the Evil Dead movies and display that.
You can post to the board, but they don’t let you Google?
Matthew 6:5
In any event, the Christian right like to use Jesus’s name to cover their own unrighteousness, but they are not His followers.
And thus we have the problem, don’t we, Seige?
Or, better yet, an identical monument bearing Ambrose Bierce’s “Decalogue”:
Great cite, Otto, and I agree with your conclusion.
I knew somebody would come up with a Funny Cide to that line! 
First, is secretarian a word or was it supposed to be sectarian?
Second, will somebody be keeping an eye on the tax records to ensure that property taxes are being paid on said plot of land?
Clearly, Christ only really meant that this is bad if the streetcorner is public property. If you purchase the street corner and do it, it’s cool. Clearly. 
Again, this is a weird situation because I entirely support the right for people to own land, entirely am happy when the government sells assets to private hands (though not that they pocket the proceeds), and indeed think if this is really what the company wants to do, they should knock themselves out. It’s just… so pathetic that it’s just plain embarrasing to live on the same planet with these guys.
The property may still be tax-exempt. I have no idea what Wisconsin law is on the issue, but in many states, property owned by fraternal/charitable organizations is exempt from real estate taxes.
Well, he was an agnostic. What religious views were you under the impression that he held?
Hopefully nothing about the forged account of where he ‘saw the light’ and rejected his doubting ways upon his deathbed, as, unfortuantely, the woman who claimed he said it wasn’t there.
You know, if I weren’t already a believer, I would run shrieking from almost any fundamentalist Christian who approached me today. They are obsessed; they have lost their perspective.
Doesn’t your party have enough problems without invoking Karl Marx?
A disingenuous welcome indeed since your subjunctive assertion is not falsifiable.
Don’t you have enough problems with like, mental health and credibility and such, without getting involved in a debate about Darwin v creationism?
What the fuck are you talking about? What is it with you and claims of things not being “falsifiable” that are easily falsifiable? Another group puts up something, and BANG, instant falsification.
Normally, of course, in debate the proponent of an assertion is the one responsible for proof – that is, you cannot posit an idea and demand to be proven wrong.
In this case, assuming, as tomndebb does, the bid process is open to all, the proof is in the pudding, so to speak. If another group wants to place a different monument, all they have to do is outbid the Ten Commandments group. I cannot imagine the city would announce such a sale, and then, after another group won the bid, say, “Oops, just kidding!”
C’mon folks! Have you *been *to a New Moon lately? I can’t collect enough cash to cover for rental space and cookies!
I’m beginning to think the phrase “ridiculous ammount of cash” is actually anathema to neo-pagans! Or should that be “an-athame”?
What I’m wondering is if this plan is as close to “Bearing False Witness” as I think it is. It’s certainly intending to deceive. And in front of a court house, no less, which adds an extra dollop of irony to the cappuccino of life.