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For Kurt

06/13/08 | by David Raffin [mail] | Categories: News/Info

The Humanist:

South Carolina’s Attorney General Henry McMaster thinks the Ten Commandments should be posted in public buildings. And he thinks the Lord’s Prayer should be thrown in as well.

But not, as Kurt Vonnegut was fond of saying, the radically socialist Sermon on the Mount which the Lord’s Prayer is snipped from- out of context. “Judge not, that ye be not judged” near a courthouse! The horror.

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth” ?

“Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away” ?

The long blanket ban on public prayer, the repeated attacks on hypocrites who claim to be holy men…

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