First Amendment or First Commandment. Choose one. Which will it be?

Question

The First Amendment gives us Freedom of Religion. That means ANY religion. Or NONE!

The First Commandment says that one may not have an y other God buy Yahweh. That rules out Hindus and Buddhists. Maybe even agnostics.

We cannot have both the First Amendment and the First Commandment backed by force of law. One msut give way to the other. So which will it be?

If you pick the First Amendment, aren't you being disloyal to God and disobeying his orders? The Bible tells yoiu what to do with "idol worshippers" and unbelievers, and it's not nice. And you can no longer claim that the Government, the Constitution, or the laws are based on the Commandments or the Bible.

If you choose the First Commandment, that destropys the Freedom that America was founded to have, and makes this a Theocracy. ("The worst type of government."-- C.S. Lewis) AND you are unpatriotic.

So pick one.

Answer 1

I choose the Constitution which gives us freedom from religion. Man created God because he wanted to be immortal. The church has not been a good example of good lately.

Answer 2

They aren't in opposition, they are not mutually exclusive. One is a restriction upon government, the other is a personal directive from religion.

The First Amendment is a delineation of the individual freedoms we have as human beings which the government has no authority to infringe.

The First Commandment is a personal directive from God that is the primary rule in our personal religious belief.

Silly and illogical. Both beliefs can be held firmly without anybody else's rights or beliefs being violated.

Answer 3

Your question is based in faulty logic

The first commandment tells me what I must do. It does not say that I have a duty to tell others what they should believe.

Secondly, Yahweh is not a name for God. It is what scholars used to refer to the 3 unpronuncable vowels strung togther that signified The Supreme Being in earlier Judaic writings.

Finally I have never heard that our Constitution is based on the Bible or the 10 Commandments. It is my understanding that it was influenced by British Common Law, The Magna Carta, and the writings of many philosohers such as Voltaire and John Locke.

Answer 4

First amendment, obviously. From the wording of the first commandment, it would appear that you can support the First Amendment as long as you are not the one worshiping other gods.

Answer 5

Maybe Allah, Buddha, and Krishna translate into Hebrew as "Yahweh."

However, the foundation of this country was religious tolerance, as Pilgrims, Quakers, Puritans, Jews, et al fled to the American Colonies to be allowed to practice in their chosen faiths.

Thus, there is no choosing between First Amendment v. First Commandment, concerning the government. It is inherent in our history to tolerate religious variation.

It is a personal choice issue, as to whether you want to worship Yahweh or Barney.

Answer 6

First amendment. Why does my belief in one god above all others mean that I have to require the force of law?

I don't see anywhere in the first commandment where it says that "Thou shall only have a government that supports only one God"

I think there is less conflict than you would like there to be. One is about the government we want (first amendment) and one is about our private beliefs (first commandment). We shouldn't confuse the levels.

Answer 7

I try to live by the commandments and the first amendment gives me the right to say it.

Answer 8

The Constitution was written under christianity. Seems to me like Christians are the ones that said you have the right to believe in whatever you want to believe in. Your statement can't be taken as anything other than a useless rant. If you don't like our Constitution and it's amendments, then leave, no one is stopping you.

Answer 9

The First Amendment. I choose it because since God does not force himself on anyone (to believe in him), then neither should I. Freedom to accept or reject God's salvation (and/or existence) should be reflected in human actions as well.

Answer 10

1st Amendment-Though the Commandments have their place in life. They do not have a place in a free country. What is the possibility that it is all one God anyhow? It boils me that extremists from any religion think they've got God in a box.