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Originally Posted by Gunth0807
Making a false idol and worshiping a false idol are two different commandments buddy.
There is no doubt whatsoever that making a sphinx out of a bar of soap is breaking a commandment. I suggest you go study the issue instead of studying ways to insult your fellow man.
If you want to get nit-picky, the sphinx was overwhelmingly a symbol of ancient Egyptian religion.
If you, as a child, assigned no more deistic power to an image of a sphinx made out of a bar of soap than you would a drawing of Abraham Lincoln, it still isn't clear in what way you'd be violating a commandment. Is it also breaking a commandment for you to make a cross or a fish or a wedding ring? Cause in the age of the Ten Commandments, these were all symbols of Pagan religions that have only after Paul been slowly adapted into Christianity. Should they be abolished? Or isn't it just possible that IF your god exists as an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving being, that he could easily discern one's intentions when clinging to different symbols. You assign more power to an ancient, legalistic book written by people whose understanding of the world is the equivalent of a modern 4-year old than you do the god that book supposedly describes. Even if I were to grant the premise of a Christian god at all (I don't), I'd certainly ask you to do a little digging into the "can't see the forest for the trees" line of thinking.
And this is not an "issue" for me...this is an issue for the legalistically religious. If you want to spend your entire life making sure you dot your I's with regards to a thousands-year-old fantasy with no more relationship to reality than the Greco-Roman religions whose importance you're dissing, then by all means that's up to you.
But our schools are the way they ought to be. Religion is for church, and as I pointed out - there are more than enough of them. And if you have or decide one day to have kids and you want them to have more religious education than they can get in the church you take them to, then feel free to also enroll them in religious school. Public, taxpayer-funded school is for the teaching of provable facts, not dogma. I learned the basics of the Christian church in world history, along with the basics of Judaism and Islam. Public schools going beyond that in a secular, civil society is taking it further than the vast majority of people are comfortable with (unless you limit it to just THEIR religion, and then they're fine with more - which is part of why we have the laws we have, so one group isn't marginalized as compared to another).
If you respond to this, respond to everything. Don't just pick out one line, ignore everything else, continue to assert the same things that have already been answered, and expect to have any meaningful discussion. If you want to debate, let's do it for real...quit ignoring the bulk of a post and cherry-picking just the part you want to respond to.