TV star!

I watched the video. Check the spelling in commandment #7: Adultry.

Adultry? Though shalt not act like adults, perhaps? Guess they're all following that one!

Funny, too, that the segment is preceded by an ad for an "enhancement" medication.

Amazing how the Christians are freaking out so much about an atheist coming to town. And they say we 'over react'.

I love google. Seems like this Joey Lander guy (the town bible-thumbing lawyer also peddles vitamins).
http://www.targetmarketnews.com/storyid04180602.htm

I cannot believe they spelled adultery wrong.
Is that an old spelling version or something?
I could not find any reference to that spelling, but
I did not look too hard.

Believe it, afterthought. Hicks can't spell fer beans.

Afterthought: That's not an archaism; it's just plain old dyed-in-the-wool Bible-thumping stupidity.

The word, as long as it has existed in English, has always been "adultery". (In Middle English it was adulterie, from the Latin adulterium.)

It's ironic that its spelling has been adulterated for the Decalogue Rock.

In the King James Bible, which we all know is the original and true version, inerrant in every aspect, it is spelled adultery.

They should also put up a version with the commandments in conflict with the constitution removed. How many does that leave?

BWAHAHA! Illiteracy carved into stone.

I notice also these are the proddy ten commandments. As an ex-Catholic atheist, I am doubly offended.

But anyway, way to go, Daniel!

When it comes to urinating on a public monument, nothing beats the sensation of sprinkling over an illegal collection of junk put up by fundie nutjobs.

Please join me in celebration!

PZ,

Thanks for the plug. Some of us are pretty enough for TV, while some of us...;-)

Seriously, thanks.

Boy, Sean was really itching for a fight, wasn't he? Christ, Daniel, right at the beginning you should have said "I wasn't looking for a lawsuit, I didn't even know about it until you called me". Hindsight 20-20 and all. You stood up well against him given the dragged in at the last minute bit.
I was amused that the font on the monument looks a lot like Colbert's On Notice board.

Hannity that little prick. He was in Phoenix right before the election to bomb the AZ state fair with his crap politics. FNC did a H&C show with - you guessed it - invited guests only in a sectioned off area of the fairgrounds.

He seems to be on this world tour kick trying to convert everyone.

Adultry. See the 1549 Book of Common Prayer:

Aunswere. Thou shalte have none other Gods but me.
II. Thou shalte not make to thyselfe anye graven image, nor the likenesse of any thyng that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bowe downe to them, nor wurship them.
III. Thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy God in vayne.
IV. Remember that thou kepe holy the Sabboth day.
V. Honor thy father and thy mother.
VI. Thou shalt doe no murdre.
VII. Thou shalt not commit adultry.
VIII. Thou shalt not steale.
IX. Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour.
X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife, nor his servaunt, nor his mayde, nor his Oxe, nor his Asse, nor any thing that is his.

Interesting George.
I wonder why they only spelled the one word in the
1549 style?

Uh, OK. that provides a source for the adultry spelling, but clearly the rest of the text on the Dixie County slab is not from that list you provided. I make an occasional spelling mistake myself, but I've never managed to have one carved into stone.

They asked the Christianist all the questions I wanted to answer. "Is this monument a good idea?" No! It means that an entire county decided to break the law and violate the constitution. They don't get to cecede from the United States of America or pretend the constitution applies to everybody but them. Breaking the law at your pleasure is not a good habit to get into.

Well, since it was a private citizen who supposedly paid for the thing and placed it there, then that means I can go over and nail up something rude that I deeply belief is true, right?

Remember, Craig, that the Board of County Commissioners had to vote to allow it to be placed...this wasn't just some action by a citizen without the government's approval.

Please accept my apologies. My state is a constant embarrassment. We can't count. We can't spell.

Oh, and we don't understand the Constitution. . .

Sorry.

Nance

I thought it interesting that the attorney, of all people, thought it supportive that there was only one letter to the editor in opposition. Apparently, he has no concept of the term "Tyranny of the Majority." Perhaps the lone atheist in that county remembers the white robes and pointy hats of the recent past.

I know you will all be deeply shocked to learn that Fox News originally asked a Libertarian to be on that segment, then replaced him with an atheist.

Darts & Laurels
Alligator Online

Friday, December 1, 2006 1:00 a.m.
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Next, we pass a godless-in-a-good-way LAUREL to UF's own Daniel Morgan, who ventured into the lion's den - Fox News Channel - to argue against a Ten Commandments monument in a Dixie County courthouse this week. Morgan appeared on "Hannity & Colmes" opposite a local attorney, who apparently fears a rash of graven images, false gods and ass-coveting if the six-ton Decalogue is removed.
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He's not the only one. Locals greeted the UF student with outright hostility - one shouted, "This atheist is coming down here to take away our Ten Commandments!" as if Morgan planned to rip the monument in two with his superhuman atheist strength. Which is absurd. He only uses his powers to fight crime.
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Besides, the really important parts of the Ten Commandments - thou shalt not kill, for instance - are already enshrined in American law. And in every other kind of law, for that matter. As for the other stuff? Keeping the Sabbath holy and all that? We say the Christians' real beef is with the National Football League, not the justice system.
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At least the folks in Stuart, FL can spell correctly.

Yeah, they can spell "adultery" correctly. "Commit," though, that's a whole 'nother ballgame...

Mike Haubrich,

Even more amusing (read: sad) is that this attorney is half-owner of the only news rag in the county...

So who gets to decide which letters get published and which don't? Hmmmm.

Yeah, they can spell "adultery" correctly. "Commit," though, that's a whole 'nother ballgame...

Heh. Good catch. At least they didn't carve it into stone.

Here's an article in the Dixie County Advocate with a still image of the ADULTRY tablet.

Check out the banner for the Dixie County Advocate. "Offical Organ"...yeah, they got that right.

http://www.dcadvocate.net/summary.asp?hlID=489

"They should also put up a version with the commandments in conflict with the constitution removed. How many does that leave?"

Three, that's it. The other seven are unconstitutional and/ or unenforceable.

Wow. That interview was so shallow and superficial, with no chance to explore any of the issues, as to be totally useless. What a waste of time.