Do you believe the ten commandments should be displayed on or in government buildings?

Question

DID YOU KNOW? As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view . it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!




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As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.


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As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall,
right above where the Supreme Court judges sit,
a display of the Ten Commandments!







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There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.




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James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our Constitution" made the following statement:


"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."


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Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said:

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".


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Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.


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Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.


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Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law . an oligarchy


the rule of few over many.


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The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said:



"Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers."


How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?


Lets put it around the world and let the world see and remember what this great country was built on.



Chamber, US House of Representatives



I was asked to send this on if I agreed or delete if I didn't. Now it is your turn...
It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore, it is very hard to understand why there is such a mess about having the Ten Commandments on display or "In God We Trust" on our money and having God in the Pledge of Allegiance. Why don't we just tell the other 14% to Sit Down and SHUT UP!!!

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Answer 1

I agree the Ten Commandments should be posted in government buildings and also in schools. This country was founded on the religious beliefs of Christianity and the Bible should be taught in public schools like it is in college. I mean it does not have to be a requirement but at least an option for parents who want to provide their children with the same foundation that this great nation was founded on. It could be taught as a history class.

Answer 2

You have taken the view of Christains not being bound by the Old Law out of context. This simply means that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior redeeming us for our sins. This does NOT do away with the Old Law but fulfills it. The Ten Commandments is God's Laws for eternal Life that tells us what actions condemn us. As such, Christians desire for all to know how to live in Justice by observing God's laws and will. Also, the issue of having the Ten Commandments displayed on government property is a Constitutional issue that has gotten lop-sided. The Court has declared a "separation of church and state" which is a falasy. What the Constitution says is that "Congress shall not enact any laws respecting the establishment of a religion". This was done so that no one religious denomination would dominate to persecute other religions such as it was in England. The other clause is the "free exercise" clause saying government shall not inhibit the free-exercise of religion, which the Courts have done in their rulings. Such hypocrisy. Prayer in school is not an establishment of a religion! Just look the definition of "religion" up and the whole society will come to realize that this is not so as the ACLU says it is. God bless America because we are in a culture war between life and death; blessing and curse. Good question to think about.

Answer 3

DID YOU KNOW that your question is too darned long?

DID YOU KNOW that the first Amendment to the US Constitution reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

DID YOU KNOW that telling 14% of the population to sit down and shut up while you shove your personal religious belief down their throats might be seen as restricting the free practice of THEIR faith?

DID YOU KNOW that requiring an atheist to recite a pledge that mentions God would be respecting an establishement of religion?

DID YOU KNOW that, while there are indeed many indicators that ours is a predominantly Christian nation, most of us are tolerant people and don't think it's necessary to wave our faith in the faces of people who believe otherwise?

The Constitution was not written, nor was the US government created, in order to give you a protected platform from which to evangelize.

So, let me put it to you in ways that you might be able to grasp.

If this nation were 86% atheist, would YOU recite a pledge that said "One nation, denying the existence of god?" Would you want your kids exposed to it every day? Would you want the 10 Reasons God Doesn't Exist displayed in every classroom?

If you can't see this question from the other side, maybe YOU need to sit down and shut up until you can.

Answer 4

I'm aware of most of those things. I don't really have an issue with it, but realistically we shouldn't have these things in place. You also note things that were put in place many many years ago. Quotes are from founding fathers and early principal players in our country. Its not the same as today. Then, we had mostly deeply religious and Christian people. We have a much larger diversity of religions and people today.

And so what if congress starts with a prayer. Maybe they should actually ACT more christ-like rather than the lying, cheating and favor granting body that they are.

Frankly, I don't want us to turn into a theocracy like Iran or Saudi Arabia.

Geez, you really have a Christian attitude with your "sit down and shut up" comment.

btw-- I'm a Christian too...

Answer 5

"Why don't we just tell the other 14% to Sit Down and SHUT UP!!!"

Wow, real tolerance there. Jesus would be proud.

Oppressing the rights of a minority is called Fascism. This is America, we all have the right to believe what we believe in, and it is not the government's job to tell us what to believe or display favor towards one religion over the other. The religious displays are a legacy of what our country was built on, yes- but it does not mean that's the way it should be in the future or a defense for those who put their faith in mythical Gods or books.

Answer 6

No, it's unacceptable. Most of the basic tenets of the Ten Commandments are fine, and obviously a good chunk of them determine the laws that societies live by (do not murder, do not steal, etc.)
But then you get into the dicey stuff like "thou shalt have no God before me" and so on. Tell me how that applies to our national legal system.
Bottom line, the Ten Commandments, while many of them inspire the laws we live by, are a representation of a few of the religions that our citizens adhere to -- but not all religions. It is certainly selective of the Judeo-Christian religions. Therefore it excludes people who adhere to other faiths and has no place in a government facility.

Answer 7

DID YOU KNOW that those who merely copy/paste usually appear to lack the intelligence to formulate their OWN opinions?

MY opinion is that the Ten Commandments should not be displayed on government buildings, unless there are also similar fundamental credos from other religions -- or these documents should simply remain where they belong: in churches, temples, mosques and other houses of prayer.

Furthermore, what good are these fundamental rules, when our own government breaks the commandments by LYING and MURDERING in a bogus "war?"

Answer 8

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." 1787 letter to his nephew

"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." Unknown

"Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies." Unknown

"To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But a heresy it certainly is. Jesus told us indeed that 'God is a spirit,' but he has not defined what a spirit is, nor said that it is not matter. And the ancient fathers generally, if not universally, held it to be matter: light and thin indeed, an etherial gas; but still matter." letter to John Adams, August 15, 1820

"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites." Notes on Virginia

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" Letter to von Humboldt, 1813

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own" Letter to H. Spafford, 1814

"But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State." in a letter to S. Kercheval, 1810

"...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, 'Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,' which was rejected 'By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.'" From Jefferson's biography

"I never told my religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged others' religions by their lives, for it is from our lives and not our words that our religions must be read."

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."

"The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible."

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”

“It is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist.”


Thomas Jefferson

Answer 9

I defend the right to display the 10 commandments, government or civilian.

If only people honored them.

Answer 10

The silent majority is so silent they get raped repeatedly and can't under stand why.

If we spoke up, they wouldn't stand up to begin with.
It's time we cons stand up as loud or louder than the left!!
That's Bushes main problem is he never stands up for himself, he needs to put aside the politics and tell the left , publicly how retarded they are.