Actually, one of the comments is… insightful:
Translated into English, I’m pretty sure that suggests it’s okay to put a 10 Commandments monument in the town square if I can put a Burma Shave sign on the church… which is as it should be.
I would expect a Doper to recognize that that’s not what he said; I feel quite certain that it’s not what he meant. I’m quite sure that he meant the same thing that every asshole who wants to put Moishe Letterman’s Top Ten List on public land says – that it’s somehow at the root of American jurisprudence and culture, and isn’t an “establishment of religion” at all.
It’s bollocks, but a far lesser grade of bollocks than what you suggest.
Let me give this a shot… “When priests wear designer jeans, others will worship the houses of air traffic controllers.”
Regardless of what he meant, there’s no way to parse the phrase “Ten Commandments of the United States of America” without intimating that they are in some way American.
Oddly enough, God was born in America, even before creating the universe.
It turns out Jesus was an anchor baby, because Mary was an illegal.
Really? You’d think they’d have made a ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ about it.
But that would mean that an illegal was virtuous. Heads would assplode.
They did, but they didn’t air it because of threats from, er, oh… somebody.
Hey … I’m an air traffic controller! Let me check outside … nope. No worshipers. Darn.
I haven’t seen any priests wearing designer jeans… yet.
You must not be a Unitarian.
Maybe, maybe not. I’ve heard that very first Unitarian church was in Heisenberg, Germany. That may well be true also.
That part’s true, but we have no idea how fast it was going.
Come to think of it, I’m sure I’ve seen a priest in designer jeans, but I can’t be sure where he was.
Altar boys can wear designer jeans now?
Any boy who gets too close to a Catholic priest is likely to be altered.
Pat Boone, “The mosque at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue”:
Okay, granted, this isn’t an idea. But Jesus Christ on crutches made of crackers, these people are nuts.
No, they’re not nuts, they’re just spreading any old lies they can come up with to maximize their chances of achieving more political power come November.
Calling them nuts for sewing fear today is as foolish now as was calling Osama bin Laden nuts after his brilliant attack on 9/11. The insult does nothing to address the actual problem raised by these hyperpartisans.
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We could if we could just see it.