Thoughts about the 10 commandments
Charles Honey:
Like most Americans, I like monuments. They're big, they're solid and they last. Mount Rushmore is ridiculously massive, but it is spectacularly American and looks great on a postcard. But do I really want to see a monument of the Ten Commandments springing up on every courthouse and state capitol lawn in the country? No. The ones already there, fine. Demolishing monuments nationwide would be the culture-war equivalent of Fort Sumter. I say, leave the ones we have alone and don't start chiseling more. We should build the commandments into our lives, not on our public squares.
+pax
Like most Americans, I like monuments. They're big, they're solid and they last. Mount Rushmore is ridiculously massive, but it is spectacularly American and looks great on a postcard. But do I really want to see a monument of the Ten Commandments springing up on every courthouse and state capitol lawn in the country? No. The ones already there, fine. Demolishing monuments nationwide would be the culture-war equivalent of Fort Sumter. I say, leave the ones we have alone and don't start chiseling more. We should build the commandments into our lives, not on our public squares.
+pax
posted by ivars krafts at
11:00 PM
