Ten Commandments Reflections

I AM NOT SURPRISED BY IGNORANCE BY DAVID ARTHUR WALTERS The case of the granite shrine of the Decalogue inserted by Judge Roy Moore into the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building in 2001  is of importance to all those who love liberty. I have received various comments on my coverage of the event.  I am not surprised that many commentators did not read the entire text they commented on, and, instead, rendered a knee-jerk reaction to some portion or phrase because they think their ideology or theology is being attacked. I understand. I have done that myself. I happy that individuals have written long comments and articles on this case and on the general theme. While doing so, some of them insisted that this case is unimportant or impertinent, that it has no bearing on the American scheme of things, that it is not representative of a shift to the born-again self-righteous authoritarian government. They are sorely mistaken in my opinion. I can understand why people might be emb...

  Josiah Smashing Idols TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR BIGOTS BY DAVID ARTHUR WALTERS December 16, 2017 I recently republished three essays I penned in 2013 about Judge Roy Moore’s purported worship of a stone fetish in Alabama, a huge granite block upon which the Decalogue is inscribed.  My criticism was about his deeds before the whole world,  not something he was accused of doing secretly. He raised himself above man’s law in that case, citing God, and that is what we call “bigotry,” after the practice of pious people of yore given to saying “By God.”  I argued that it is the ethical rules metaphorically engraved on the heart, remembered and thought upon that should be sacred, not a block of stone upon which words are inscribed.  Moses himself, mindful of how people worshiped a golden calf, would take a sledgehammer to that stone fetish in Alabama, for it was not the principle they held dear, but some perishable thing of this world, just as primitive people worshiped s...