Friday, May 06, 2005

christian lawschools......

ok, so today on the drive to work, npr had a piece on about the rise in christian law schools.....and this notion was chilling.......the possibility of 600 lawyers turned out per year to spread their version of american law to the heathen masses.......the boradcast was part of series....yesterday's installment was about the tour of the granite 10 commandments slab that was removed from the courthouse somewhere in the south in the highly publicized conflict between the judge who placed it there and the governor........the ten commandments.....brought down off the mountain by moses.......according to these zealots.....america was founded and her laws entirely based on these 10 rules...........partly true, but not nearly as completely so as these folks so fervently and so blindingly believe......the pilgrims came to these shores to escape a religious environment whereupon their was one approved church......and everybody better see things that way...........the pilgrims sought religious freedom, moreso than christian doctrine...they had all of that they wanted back home.......they simply wanted to do things differently.......and yet these same folks seem bent on making the rest of us do things their way....like there is only one way to be a christian.......gentle readers, i have oft blogged about the increasing difficulty i have in teaching sunday school and attending church in what has got to be the most liberal of southern baptist congregations on the planet........most of the children of younger members attend the christian school...........which may be just fine and dandy........but a skewed view on the world...the same way that catholic school gave a skewed view on the world.......at this point in my life i see the problem thusly........there are christians who want everybody else to do and see things their way....and there are christians who desire to tolerate other world views with regards to the spiritual realm......and do not mind that others do not agree with them......i am in the latter camp.....but i fear that the christian right has come to believe that they own the right point of view.....but i digress from my original point......about the origin of american law........the sumpreme court does, in fact, have a frieze with moses carrying down the 10 commandments....but said frieze also includes hammerabi......and makes reference to greece, to rome, and other historic sources of justice.......and we christians do not have dibs on moses.....he brought the commandments to the jews, not to the christians.........and when we get really down to the nitty gritty.....the what would jesus do part....he said that we should love our neighbor as we would love ourselves.......and then there was the part on the mount of olives where he said that divorce was a sin.......i would really like to see a show of hands on remarried senators who align themselves with the christian right.........i mentioned a while back that a mother of a former classmate of my middle child (got it?) is studying to take ther lsats this summer.....at 49 she is hoping to go to lawschool......and she is one of the most progressive thinking christians i know......if only we could recruit 600 women just like her a year...now that would be something..............

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