10 Commandments Signs

June 22nd, 2007

Here in Nampa (and surrounding cities) we have these “10 Commandments” signs. I believe they began showing up a couple years ago when a local city park placard was being removed because it contained the 10 Commandments.

I have issue with these signs on several levels. First of which is poor design, but that is just obvious. I will start with how tacky they make our streets look. Nampa has it’s classy areas and it’s not so classy areas just like every other town, but it is by no stretch of the imagination in danger of being a classy place to live. Overall I would say Nampa needs a little sprucing up (new sidewalks, some fresh paint, weeds pulled etc.)

I was walking down a street the other day that needs some sprucing up and came across one of these signs. It sticks out like a sore thumb and doesn’t add to the aesthetic beauty of their front yard. I mean really! Great you care about a local issue and you want to show your concern but perhaps post a persuasive article in the local paper or something that would be more effective and not such an assault on everyones optical nerves.

That being said it is not the worst part about these signs. Most of the people who are up in arms on this issue are religious, I would assume Christians. Why are these local Christians so obsessed with this 10 commandments statue. It seems to me to be a very telling commentary on Christians as a group. Christ has called us to a life so much greater than following a list of rules. He has called us to love unconditionally! Now that is worth getting excited about. It seems that a majority of Christians in this country are not concerned with this glorious, and exciting unconditional love and more concerned on what you should and should not do. When I see these signs around town I am saddened by what I perceive is some of the underlying reasons that people love Christ but don’t really care for Christians.

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