So...

[dwenius]

Do you think any of these idiots in Alabama are hip the the undeniable irony of their situation? I mean, all this praying for the preservation of a two ton block of granite...can you say "graven image"? For all of you playing along at home, and particularly for any fervent christians in Alabama, where, come on now, Jesus ranks a distant second to football, the relevant text here is:

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 shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. -- Exodus 20.4f

It is to laugh.

Comments

[opadit.livejournal.com]

My understanding has always been that "graven image" meant the likeness of people or animals, not of inanimate objects. So that's why the golden calf or whatever it was that the people were worshipping when Moses came back down from Mt. Sinai with the tablets was such a bad, bad thing.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

It's not apparent to me they were worshiping or serving the chunk of rock, just, you know throwing hissy fits about its removal. There's enough legitimate reasons to find the whole affair silly without reaching all the way past the bottom of the Outrage Barrel.

[dwenius.livejournal.com]

Well, I hit the bottom of my outrage meter on day one, but didn't get around to posting until now, and you gotta cover new ground, you know?