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This ten commandment affair in Alabama reminds me of those other two stone monuments in Afghanistan, the Bamiyan Buddhas, which were destroyed by the Taliban to send a message around the world that these objects were considered to un-Islamic.

What they have in common is that they involve two stone monuments to demonstrate religious zealotry to gain attention in the world media, and the marriage of church and state.

The 10 commandments may be a kind of a counter measure by xtian fundies in the deep South to the old Taliban fundamentalism and going to the same extreme lengths of fundamentalism as the Taliban. It is a measure to send a message to the Arab world that they really ae on a crusade to destroy the Islamic world along with every thing that is non xtian.

If it is what I suspect, a proxy crusade then it may be setting an very danger precedent.

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The Taliban regime in Afghanistan is one example of just how a country can get screwed up if you mix church and state and this is not straw man argument because with this ten commandment issue and others the US is getting just as screwed up.

The chief justice in Alabama would like America to exist in something akin to a Christian Taliban where the bible is the American constitution.