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?

[fameONE]

Yes, people of the Jewish and Christian faiths aren't the only inhabitants of the country, however, if these moral guidelines were the foundation of the legal decisions made by our forefathers, then why not honor them in such a way?

On the contrary, doing so would be unfair to those that oppose Christianity. Here the options, offend someone by taking away their rights, or offend someone by not giving their religion top priority.

[Spirited Away]

Yes, people of the Jewish and Christian faiths aren't the only inhabitants of the country, however, if these moral guidelines were the foundation of the legal decisions made by our forefathers, then why not honor them in such a way?

On the contrary, doing so would be unfair to those that oppose Christianity. Here the options, offend someone by taking away their rights, or offend someone by not giving their religion top priority.

Mr. Acid said "please show me proof that the founding fathers were influenced by the ten commandments. you can't. because they weren't"

And I said "Christianity was the smaller picture. Religious freedom was, and still is, the bigger picture. Christianity was simply the faith of those who wished for religious freedom in America. They believed in Christianity but they SOUGHT FREEDOM of RELIGIOUS PRACTICE.

So to respond to your comment, the historical impact is not Christianity, it is the finding of religious freedom. Thus, our First Amendment does NOT say that we have freedom to practice Christianity, it says we simply have religious freedom."



So, it offends Christianity to not have their Ten Commandments put up there... what about how I, and other believers feel? Why does it matter more that Christians are offended?

You can't please everyone, but you don't have to pick favorites either.

[fameONE]

Mr. Acid said "please show me proof that the founding fathers were influenced by the ten commandments. you can't. because they weren't"

And I said "Christianity was the smaller picture. Religious freedom was, and still is, the bigger picture. Christianity was simply the faith of those who wished for religious freedom in America. They believed in Christianity but they SOUGHT FREEDOM of RELIGIOUS PRACTICE.

So to respond to your comment, the historical impact is not Christianity, it is the finding of religious freedom. Thus, our First Amendment does NOT say that we have freedom to practice Christianity, it says we simply have religious freedom."
So, it offends Christianity to not have their Ten Commandments put up there... what about how I, and other believers feel? Why does it matter more that Christians are offended?

You can't please everyone, but you don't have to pick favorites either.

You can't please everyone, thats the point I was getting at. Someone is going to feel as though their "rights" have been trampled on whether the commandments are displayed or not. You're offended by the commandments being posted, and most Christians are offended by them not.

I, honestly, don't care either way. Putting moral guidelines on the side of a historic building won't fix the bad in our society.