Fundamentalist Scientists vs Fundamentalist Believers

[kmisho]

Originally Posted by Someday

I don' t think these people are wanting to change the laws to be based on the 10 commandments. I am under the impression they believe the laws already ARE based on them.

Even if you are right and they want to write new laws based on them, it's still an extreme comparison. The taliban turned sports arenas into execution stadiums and practiced other very extreme forms of Sharia. You are making an assumption based on no evidence that these men would behave similarly. Such assumptions sound driven more by fear than they do rational thought.

Blessings

The evidence I'm using is history. I unfortunately find it all too plausible to imagine death stadiums in the US...were the extreme factions to somehow gain power on a par with the Taliban's.

As far as your first point, there are degrees of fundamentalism. There are some who say our law is based on the 10 commanments. What makes them fundamentalist is that no amount of evidence to the contrary will make them change their view. I find it hard to imagine god himself supporting separation of church and state!

[kmisho]

Originally Posted by friendly hardline atheist

Hmm, seems like a clear case, why has e. g. the FFRF not challenged that law article yet?

greets,
Peter

I believe the law stands because Texas has never tried to enforce it. Clearly the law would die a quick death if they ever invited a suit by actually attempting enforcement.