tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57521382011-04-21T19:28:55.930-07:00The Ten CommandmentsThe Ten Commandments should be discussed three times every day. <a href="http://blogger.com/profile/1746151">Author's Profile</a>David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-55933705665911357612007-10-24T05:06:00.000-07:002007-10-24T05:13:26.093-07:00 ON THE HORNS OF MOSESBYDAVID ARTHUR WALTERSThe Old Testament features a convenient scapegoat for our natural ambivalence, bigotry and materialism: our spiritual ancestors, the stereotypical Jews. The perennial Jewish Question, How should we treat the Jews, should be asked not only of the self-styled Jews but of our thoroughly Judaized Western culture. Josephus might better say of the lot of us David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-72748729429315177282007-10-23T12:05:00.000-07:002007-10-23T12:07:39.781-07:00The History of the Futureby David Arthur Walters All the information in the world crammed into boxes and manipulated to order by key-stroking workers in cubicles cannot save the world from the terror that shall overwhelm it. The world is plagued with violence, injustice, and greed, and led by pathological liars, political prostitutes, and faithless adulterers who give hypocritical lip-service to David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-28802389436407654412007-10-09T05:22:00.000-07:002007-10-09T05:28:43.245-07:00DOOMSDAY IS NIGH AGAINThe inspiration of ancient religion is neither faith in visible or invisible idols called gods nor in faith in signs and symbols for same but faith in truth and justice. If the truth be told then justice will be done. We find little faith in truth and justice in the world where might in itself is believed to be right and where the great bitch-goddess Success is worshipped, David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-10014801378624706342007-09-17T08:11:00.000-07:002007-09-17T08:16:29.327-07:00MEDITATION ON JEREMIAHBYDAVID ARTHUR WALTERSJerusalem was certainly not the utopian ark of Zion the prophet Jeremiah wanted it to be nor was it the cradle of radical reform so that Judah’s wickedness might be extirpated at its root. King Josiah of Judah instituted some legal reforms. They were all right as far as they went, and included the death penalty for violators, but Jeremiah did not think David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1109773669996710142005-03-02T06:25:00.000-08:002005-03-02T06:44:27.470-08:00Posting the Ten Commandments The argument over posting the Ten Commandments is much more significant that we might suppose. In fact, not only does the Book of Deuteronomy provide for writing them on house posts and gates, but for regularly speaking of them to children upon arising, when sitting in the house, before going to bed, and when walking by the way.And since people are motivated by fear David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1064354024071490732003-09-23T14:53:00.000-07:002004-03-13T10:21:32.890-08:00 Diremption by David Arthur Walters A ''diremption'' is a violent divorce or split, sometimes identified as a "fall" into self-conciousness, which presents an objective world in opposition to the willing subject, now conscious of itself as an independence restrained, therefore, at once, dependent for its existence on outside forces to which it must respond in one way or another to perpetuate David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1064353748099540162003-09-23T14:48:00.000-07:002003-09-23T14:49:07.576-07:00 Ten-Percent Revolution The 'Holy Bible' is a best-selling book today. It was not always so popular but was virtually the private property of a tiny priestly minority. It was written in classical language, and few people were literate. The cost to produce a single copy exceeded the cost of building a substantial house. In some parts of the world, the local spiritual leader had but a single copyDavid Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1064334343262510472003-09-23T09:24:00.000-07:002003-09-23T09:25:43.160-07:00 I am not surprised The case at hand is only one case but the issue is of importance to all those who love liberty. I have posted this article on this particular case and other articles on the general issue at several sites over the past few months. I have received various comments and am familiar with most of the positions taken. I am not suprised that many commentators do not read the David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1064098949554956662003-09-20T16:02:00.000-07:002003-09-20T16:02:56.386-07:00 Thou Shalt Love God or Else! Thou shalt love YHWH or else! YHWH's contract with his Bride Israel specified that the Chosen People should love YHWH above all, or else. Or else what? or else all hell shall eventually break loose, and everything good shall be lost. That is why the first commandment enjoins us to bind ourselves to the Tribal God Before All Other Tribal Gods, eventually convertedDavid Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1063584789113978042003-09-14T17:13:00.000-07:002003-09-14T17:13:32.493-07:00 Moving the Ten Commandments by David Arthur Walters The scene outside the Alabama Judicial Building on August 27, 2003, as the two and one-half ton Ten Commandments shrine inside was moved to a back room pursuant to federal and state judicial decrees, was certainly moving, and any witness to it, no matter how calloused, could not help feeling some sympathy for the protestors. Judge Roy David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1063477249739514522003-09-13T11:18:00.000-07:002003-09-13T11:20:49.746-07:00 The Great Atheism Controversy Sunday is a good day to mention Johann Gottlieb Fichte's alleged atheism. Fichte (1762-1814), was a German philosopher, religious thinker, and political radical. After being apointed professor of philosophy at Jena in 1794, he began a series of public lectures on Sundays, from ten to eleven o'clock, much to the consternation of the clerics. A local journal David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1063332082044618152003-09-11T19:01:00.000-07:002003-09-11T19:01:21.910-07:00 The Ten Commandments Judge by David Arthur Walters "I will never deny the God upon whom our laws and country depend," declared Alabama's chief justice Roy Moore in the year 2003 of the Common Era, and his supporters cheered, fell to their knees and prayed outside of the state courthouse. Judge Moore, the 'Ten Commandments Judge', was an Etoway County circuit judge. While serving in that David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1063239224813776842003-09-10T17:13:00.000-07:002003-09-10T17:14:48.330-07:00 Jefferson's Superior Race by David Arthur Walters Libertarians frequently identify their private or conservative interest in liberty with that of the founding fathers of the United States. Time and time again we have heard the doctrine that said fathers were not only Libertarians but were stalwart members of a "superior northern European culture" which must be protected and nourished in the David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1062886300174091262003-09-06T15:11:00.000-07:002003-09-07T23:32:46.856-07:00 Thomas Jefferson's Religious Contradiction Thomas Jefferson, the most popular founding father of the United States, learned much and said much about various subjects during the course of his illustrious career, and he naturally contradicted himself from time to time for one reason or another. Perhaps he changed his mind, just as people change or amend their constitutions. Perchance his David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1062700233558339602003-09-04T11:30:00.000-07:002003-09-04T11:30:59.123-07:00 The Lawless Judge "Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, For that day will not come until the rebellion occurs And the man of lawlessness is revealed, The man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and exalt himself over everything That is called God or worshiped, So that he sets himself up in God's temple, Proclaiming himself to be God." Paul - Thessalonian 2:3 David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1062625602097903262003-09-03T14:46:00.000-07:002005-03-02T06:11:55.523-08:00The Proper State is SecularAn elected chief justice of Alabama recently refused to obey a judicial order to remove a two and one-half ton granite shrine to the Decalogue that he had surreptitiously slipped into the courthouse rotunda around midnight one night. The reason he gave for disobeying the positive law of his peers was that true American law has its origin in his god, hence he declared David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1062556010024065452003-09-02T19:26:00.000-07:002005-03-02T12:20:39.586-08:00The First Table of the LawThe sort of religious fundamentalism that would really or virtually conjoin church and state in unholy matrimony that they might live in the sin of theocracy is obviously the greatest threat to human liberty and world peace today. From that ungodly constitution certain legitimate Chistian fundamentalists disqualify themselves by rendering unto Caesar his worldy due and David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1062516968845814012003-09-02T08:36:00.000-07:002003-09-02T08:38:35.130-07:00 Can Love replace Law? speech by David Arthur Walters Jocelyn Maerkian declined my invitation to attend the Antwerp conference, 'Can Love replace Law?', because of a previous engagement. I was disappointed that she could not attend. Her contributions as a fine person and a theologian would be of interest to those who are here this weekend. She did email a simple answer to the title of our David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1062454755348269872003-09-01T15:19:00.000-07:002003-09-01T15:19:15.406-07:00 Who needs their prehistoric god? A Clamor from born-gain, right-wing authoritarian personalities, to put the Terrorist Almighty back into government again, arises to a high pitch during the Third World War on Terrorism declared by their born-again, right-wing president. He, like his presidential father before him, makes war on Iraq and throws the economy into the customary downward deficit David Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752138.post-1062372556726708862003-08-31T16:29:00.000-07:002003-08-31T16:31:05.436-07:00 The Great Alabama Fetish The granite shrine of the Decalogue inserted by Judge Roy Moore into the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building is obviously a fetish in the sense that it is for many people an artificial object evoking unquestioned veneration. Portuguese explorers applied the word fetico ("that which is made") to magical objects such as carved figurines used by Africans, especiallyDavid Arthur Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704967788002487089noreply@blogger.com