"We have atheists and Satanists getting the Bible's Ten Commandments removed from public property," said Mark Dice, spokesman for the group The Resistance, "yet the satanic Georgia Guidestones have stood for decades, and nobody seems to care. Well, we do."
[As a note, the monument is on private property]
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Wait, wait wait... So their logic is "we can't have our Ten Commandments on public property, so this guy shouldn't be allowed to have his ten commandments on private property"??? Did nobody explain to them why this is stupid and wrong?
"We can't have ours on public property, so to be fair you can't have yours ANYWHERE!"
And they wonder why we say they're intolerent... *sheesh*
It's funny because these kinds of people go berserk if a city or state uses eminent domain to take a tiny portion of their land for a public project... well, apparently "property rights" aren't so sacrosanct when the property in question isn't theirs.
Also, how's the Starbucks thing going, Mark?
@Grigadil
Actually reading on what's written on it, it looks like it was made by a bunch of nature lovers. Very stupid nature lovers, they misspelled a ton of things.
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A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Ancient Chinese, and Russian. The message in English reads:
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature
Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a one world court
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.
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It sounds sort of fundi also.
Eh, whether or not you agree with what's on the commandments on private property, the difference is, they're not being pushed on every citizen.
Satanic? I read the article, and the only idiots who are saying it's 'Satanic' are you pouting fundies.
It's on private property, so shaddup!
@szena: It sounds like the paranoid (read: fundie) mind would take tham as a New World Order, whatever that is, conspiracy. The part about keeping population at 500,000,000 is a favorite with conspiracy kooks. Conspiracy nut extrordinaire Alex Jones is a regular on religious shortwave stations, and he always says the UN/New World Order wants to "exterminate 80% of mankind," through disease, warfare, etc. to cull the herd. It's all bullshit.
You can plaster the 10 commandments on your lawns, on the sides of your churches, and every other private property you can get to agree to have it there.
Public property, especially government buildings, is where there is an issue.
Cute, seems as though the fundies are trying to fight back, and in their usual form, they don't understand the issue, and just lash out at whatever they perceive to be an insult to their Bible.
I can definitely see some neo-pagan and New Age influences in the stones, but honestly, nothing on them seems to strike me as "evil".
* Rule passion faith tradition and all things with tempered reason.
* Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts. * Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
* Balance personal rights with social duties.
* Prize truth beauty love seeking harmony with the infinite.
* Be not a cancer on the Earth leave room for nature leave room for nature.
So, exactly how are these considered "satanic"?
I would almost bet you could find similar phrases in the bible.
Those guidelines really do sound Satanic...
...in the sense that Satanism is a form of materialistic atheism. Sorry, fundies, not the way you mean it.
OK. Having looked these Georgia Guidestones on Wikipedia, the only conclusion I can come to is that it's just some dude thinking out loud, and I can't really see why fundies would get so pi...
...Oh. Thinking . Now I'm getting the idea.
"We have atheists and Satanists getting the Bible's Ten Commandments removed from public property," said Mark Dice, spokesman for the group The Resistance, "yet the satanic Georgia Guidestones have stood for decades, and nobody seems to care. Well, we do."
...meanwhile, on Planet Reality:
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Least of all, we in Kingston Upon Couldntgiveaflyingfucksville, the People's Socialist & Atheist Republic of Britain
...yet, we actually have a state religion: the Church of England.
Do you ?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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