Are Some People Really This Silly?
By Oli
At 7:39 PM · Friday, 29 August · 2003
To Life
Watching the news about the Ten Commandment monument in Alabama makes me wonder. The funniest image on TV was the protesters bowing and prostrating themselves outside the courthouse before the monument was moved. I wonder if they had read the commandment about not praying to graven images
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
I wish more people were aware that what they believe isn’t necessarily what everyone else believes, and that other beliefs should be tolerated. This seems so obvious. Why does Alabama seem such a popular place for intolerance?
It was 40 years ago yesterday that Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous March on Washington I Have a Dream
speech. I saw this small snippet on the same news program, and it’s still just as powerful.
I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with the little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
