The Ten Commandments, display or not? |
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The Ten Commandments, display or not? |
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"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? |
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QUOTE(BrandonSaunders @ Mar 23 2005, 12:54 AM) 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. Once again, you can't please everyone, but you DO NOT have to pick favorites either. Picking favorites in this case makes the situation worse. What reason would justify a Christian being offended by not having the Ten Commandments posted? I would like to know. |
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