I mean if the US was founded on "Christian values". How many of the 10 commandments are actually laws? I count 3 maybe. The rest is religious stuff.
Should the Government support one religion over another by this display? Or is that against the constitution, the Supreme Court has said so....
2006-06-19 12:22:59 · 12 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
No. Our founding fathers declared that Church and State were separate and that ALL peoples and beliefs were equal in the eyes of the law.
I'm constantly scared that we're on a slippery slope and those freedoms are being taken away by groups that believe that the US was founded for them. It was not.
2006-06-19 12:32:23 · answer #1 · answered by aross07 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The display of The Ten Commandments in governmental buildings does go against the Constitution; it is a violation of the separation of church and state, which everyone knows. Fellow Christians, I am sorry, but we must wait for You Know Who to come back and reign, and then we can have The Ten Commandments in all "governmental" buildings. But maybe by that time they'd just be called churches.
To those who think the statement I just made sounds sort of whacko, that's OK. If I weren't a Christian, I might think that statement is odd too.
2006-06-19 12:26:28 · answer #2 · answered by Iamnotarobot (former believer) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The United States Supreme Court. Good luck with that law-suit. Tee hee. Oh, my bad, you said 'in." No, well on the outside of the building, though. “We do not forget, and in this litigation have frequently been reminded, that our own courtroom frieze was deliberately designed in the exercise of governmental authority so as to include the figure of Moses holding tablets exhibiting a portion of the Hebrew text of the later, secularly phrased Commandments,” wrote Justice David Souter for the majority in the Kentucky case. “In the company of 17 other lawgivers, most of them secular figures, there is no risk that Moses would strike an observer as evidence that the National Government was violating neutrality in religion.”
2016-05-20 03:20:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greetings,
To say that the ten commandments should not be displayed is simply a slap in the face to every true american in this land,not to mention our service men and women. Scince our country was founded on these simple and true doctrines it seems plausible that we as our future emerges before us should try and keep them as basic fundamentals of our country scince they seem to have been working scince they were adopted by our founders. Unfortunately scince there is an opposition to anything that has great merit and value our country has been allowed to sink into the depths of degrading and debasing morals as is witnessed by the movie industry, our political leaders and even religious leaders which spout their own interpretations of morality.God delivered the Moral laws that men and women should strive to live by and man has tried to downplay and twist them to suit their own agendas and needs.SO yes they should be displayed everywhere so that they cannot be forgotten or subverted by people who are basically wanting to do their own will and not Gods will.
2006-06-19 12:39:35 · answer #4 · answered by cobravetor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it should be displayed. I don't see how it's against the Constitution. Most people (not all, though), are against Religion of any type. Yes, this Country was founded on Religion, and I've heard it was founded on Catholic beliefs, and I've heard it was founded on other Religions too. I just don't know why we need so many different types of Religions in America.
2006-06-19 12:28:13 · answer #5 · answered by jazzdrummerdave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How far are you willing to go with this argument? Shall we remove all law and just let everyone decide for themselves what is right or wrong? According to the hundreds of thousands of pedophiles in the world, it's OK to do unspeakable harm to children. The farther you go, the deeper into wishy-washy, do whatever feels good, and forget the consequences lifestyles.
Get a backbone and stand up for what is right.
2006-06-19 14:10:16 · answer #6 · answered by Juliart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Used to be that the US was founded on FREEDOM OF RELIGION.
Didn't the original English settlers, Like the Pilgrims come here to escape religious persecution from other Christans? Why should we start the same thing here in america.
Let's stick to the original plan and go to pray in your church and not the Capitol building.
2006-06-19 12:31:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Separation of church and state meant, by our founding fathers, that government should stay out of religion, not the other way around.
2006-06-26 04:16:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are fairly basic rules...
They could be related to religion yet, they are so basic and obvious I don't see anything wrong with it anymore...
Yet, I do not need to be told do not kill
or cheat etc.etc.
I beleive only one religion would have issues with some of the commandements... Such as ...Not kill - and no polygamy...
2006-06-19 12:32:53 · answer #9 · answered by Vayu W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why does it kill people to see the ten commandments?
aren't there a lot worse things?
i think all those people who are against them are just kooks and crazies.
whether you're religious or not i don't see why they offend people so much.
people would be better of getting a job or trying to improve their personnal life, then nit-picking the ten commandments.
2006-06-19 12:47:34 · answer #10 · answered by Stuie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋