One of these Words Is Misspelled

That is in Dixie County, Florida, where theocrats recently placed it on the courthouse steps.

Meanwhile, in Stuart, Florida, they spelled a different word wrong. Why do theocrats have such trouble with the seventh commandment?

#4 clearly wrong. It should be remember the Alamo, or remember the Maine.

I also have a problem with #1,2 & 3 - clearly unbelievable, as there is no proof of said "god".
I am okay with 5, 6, 8 & 9 though. 1#0? - Nah... You GOT to covet, that's what Marketing and America is all about! What? Are they communists down there in the South?

I am of course reminded of watching Rep Lynn Westmoreland, R-FL, on the Colbert Report, trying desperately to remember all ten commandments when challenged to recite them. He got three - the secular ones (don't lies, steal, murder).

They can't even get them right, but they want to post them everywhere.

The Ridger said:

>They can't even get them right, but they want to post them >everywhere.

That is why they want the commandments around, so they can use them for easy check-up... No need for that pesky learning-by-heart.

And isn't it "adultery" not "adultry"? At least that is the only spelling error I can spot with my limited skillz :P

And isn't it "adultery" not "adultry"?

Yup, that's it.

#1 clearly shows that Jehova does not consider itself to be the only god around, merely the primary one the Jews are supposed to respect. Does not prohibit other gods "after me", or deny their existence.

IIIRC, isn't #10 'Thou shallt not covet thy neighbour's wife (or any other thing of your neighbour's)"? A very specific form of coveting that is forbidden - dont't covet somebody else's property (wife? property? what about coveting your neighbour's husband?). But coveting money is A-OK.

also have another parsing of these - rather than commands, they are descriptions of the signs of a holy person, how one knows one, not orders as to how to be holy. That is a translation error.

Oh. This is not supposed to be a rant. .

Daniel Morgan of Get Busy Livin', or Get Busy Bloggin' reviews Fundy theocrat spelling.

The Ten Commandments appear twice in the Bible, because Moses dropped the original tablets (Exodus 20:1-17), so God wrote them down again but somehow got them different (Deuteronomy 5:6-21).

Here's an excerpt from Deut. 5:8-10:

[8] Thou shalt not make 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 waters beneath the earth:
[9] Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto 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,
[10] And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Wouldn't you love to see that posted in courthouses and schoolrooms everywhere, and try to pretend that it's not religious (not to mention deranged)? I don't think this bit about "visiting iniquity unto the third and fourth generation" is consistent with U.S. law.

"I don't think this bit about 'visiting iniquity unto the third and fourth generation' is consistent with U.S. law."

Of course it's not. Here in the U.S., we visit punishment for iniquity on the third or fourth generation of OTHER people's children. Just ask an American Indian who lives on a reservation. Or a black person not given adequate access to medical care, education, or safe housing. Or an agriculture worker weeding or picking on a farm that uses pesticides. Or a woman. Or an Iraq denizen. Or an Afghanistan denizen. Or any Japanese person who lost a known person, or a person they might have known, in the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. How about the former residents of New Orleans? Relatives of people who died in car accidents due to less-than-adequate safety standards for SUV's? Populations of Nevada towns whose parents are developing cancer due to desert nuclear testing? People living in abject poverty and working in hazardous conditions in manufacturing plants around the world that make products for U.S. consumers? It tends not to be the offspring of the legislators and voters responsible for these messes who suffer.

But we do it backwards, sometimes, too, just to even things out a little: let's not forget those mothers and fathers whose children die or suffer developmental disabilities due to dangerous levels of benzene, mercury, and lead in tap water. That should make everybody feel better.

You know, I almost felt bad, meeting these simple, honest, small-town people, and seeing their illiteracy up close and in person. I almost felt bad enough not to speak out against it...almost.

They ought to post Ex. 31:14-15 underneath Commandment 4 in small print:

14 " 'Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from his people. 15 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death

Yeah, and if you follow that you'll get around it by drawing up all these dicta about what really is "work" and what isn't, so you hire heathens to cook and clean on the Sabbath, or you walk to the Senate with your driver following you... Just like you cover up your hair with a human-hair wig, but it counts, or you can't decide what day is the "Sabbath" really - Saturday or Sunday ... It always boils down to ostentatiously showing how righteous you are, praying in public instead of in your inner room (closet) with the doors closed so no-one sees you. Oh, yeah, and throwing your weight around to make everybody else do what you (might) do.

Yikes...there are TWO misspellings--adultery, for sure...
But--the pronoun at the bottom banner is supposed to be spelled HER commandments, not HIS, isn't it?

14 " 'Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from his people. 15 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death

When the purges happen, NASCAR and the NFL will be decimated.

You know, I almost felt bad, meeting these simple, honest, small-town people, and seeing their illiteracy up close and in person.

And why isn't this showing up in the MSM? Especially in Florida, the next time education becomes an issue.

Come on give Moses a break! He did not exactly have a good English teacher not to mention that there was no 'Special Ed' back then for his stutter.