The Ten Commandments, display or not? Options

[BeyondElite]

"The US Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of displaying in public spaces the Ten Commandments, in a case on the officially mandated separation of church and state in US society." Do you agree that the Ten Commandments should be displayed in public spaces? Why or why not?

In my opinion, the Ten Commandments should be displayed in government property to pay tribute to America's religious and legal history. There are three fouths (3/4) of people here in America that are in the religions of Christianity and Judaism that believes in the Ten Commandments and practices this commandment. "These Commandments have an undeniable religious significance, but they also have secular significance as a source of the law, a code of law and a well-recognized historical symbol of the law." Amendment one of the U.S. Bill of Rights clearly says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." However, freedom of Religion depends of freedom from religion. Even though one does not believe in God's existence, they simply can ignore the first, second, third and fourth commandment and simply follow the rest of the commandments which are to respect elders, to forbid murder, to forbid committing adultery, to forbid stealing, to forbid false witness against neighbor, and forbid coveting your neighbor's house (which is really similar to the laws of the United States.) What do you think?

[sadolakced acid]

why should you be that adamently against it, though? can they not also be considered as moral guidelines? neverminding the one God bit. but you dont actually have to read them. while i dont think its necessarily appropriate for them to be placed publicly, no one is forcing you to read them

they are moral guidelines. with religion too, as the first commandment states.

God made the Ten Commandements for us, not the Church.
And...?

What Justice Scalia says:
This is a good point. I heard about a book (i forgot the title), where it argues in favor of display of ten commandments. Recognizing the ten commandments recognizes that God is who grants rights, therefore government cannot take them away. If you don't recognize this, then government is who gives rights, and therefore, they can take them away.
how is it unfair? those religions didn't play a part in the development of this country, why should their documents be placed in legal centers?

god made the ten commandments? or did moses take them out of the sianie mountains? i personally think he had some good ideas for moral laws and carved them himself...



i ask you, who belives that religions played a part in the shaping of the United States of America, where in the consitution, the declaration or independence, or any subsequent document by the fonding fathers stating that the ten commandments directly influenced the founding of the United States of America.

god does not give me freedom. if god were to 'give me freedom' i would have none. it is the constitution that gives me freedom. never in the consitution does it say my freedom is given to me by god.

In fact, it no document by the founding fathers even mention god. they mention a creator. this does not mean god. this means a creator. and that's that.

the United States of America is explicitly, NOT a christian nation. it doesn't matter what the founding fathers were. no document states they intended it to be a christian country.