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]

No, God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses.

Yes, it does mention a creator, not specifically God, but many interpret God as their creator.

However, in no founding document do we find the seperation of church and state either.

Go figure.

Busy right now, will reply later.

i know 'god gave moses the ten commandments. ' i was just saying what i personally believe...


a creator is a creator. i don't give a d--- about what other people interpret a creator as. to me a creator is a creator- if they ment god then they could have put god in there.

No, but we find freedom of religion. And having the government endorse a documents ordering people to only believe in god is not freedom.

note that i did not refer to separation of church and state- howeverl; that is is found on the state level; virginia stature for the separation of church and state or something like that, from thomas jefferson.

this is FROM jefferson, the major writer of the declaration of independece.

therefore; i have a document saying that the founding fathers (at least one) supported the separation of church and state, and no documents have been presented that say the founding fathers supported only christianity, or that they were inspired by the ten commandments.

anyways: my state is wanting to require all schools to place the ten commandments (along with dec. of ind. , const. magna carta) in thier entryways.

however; that legislation provides no money for schools to do this.

and my school will find they will have a problem keeping the ten commandments spraypaint free...

oh the possiblilities...

"11. thou shalt do what the priest says, little boy."

hahaha... ok sorry. that didn't really contribute to the debate...