If a Christians Judge put the Ten Commandments in his Court House, how would you feel if a Buddhist Judge put?

Question

a Budda in his court house? Of course I'm talking about in America.

Answer 1

I'd think it was just as inappropriate.

Answer 2

Well, it isn't the judge's courthouse. It's the people's courthouse. And the Constitution covers all the people in the United States - citizens or otherwise.

How would this strike you as you walked up some marble steps to contest a traffic violation?

"The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances."
- http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/resources/buddhist_quotes.html

To many non-Buddhists, like me, this would be pretty meaningless.

But what if the judge in the court believed - or you believed that he believed - that you were responsible for living up to that code, in addition to the laws of the land?

I think that's a bit of the issue. Some have asserted that the US is a nation of laws, and that the laws must be generated by the means set forth in the Constitution.

Unless we are willing to subject ourselves to the latest whim and fashion of whoever has power at the moment, we ought to preserve that.

We, meaning the evangelical Christian who would not have been allowed to vote when this country was founded, the atheist who doesn't want to be told she's going to hell all the time, and everyone else who wants their right to privacy and freedom of conscience respected.

So evangelicals, lay your right to celebrate and honor your beliefs on the line before you ask the same of others!


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edit: victor 7707, since I take it you believe in God, will you become a state soon?

Answer 3

I think that they should all be put up.

And all religious books should be next to each other in the library.

This is America and it is religious freedom that started this country.

That being said, it is sad that the religion that was escaping the persecution that founded this nation is the very one that is now being pushed out.

All the others seem fine, but it is Christianity is being shoved out.

Answer 4

This country was not built on buddhism, it was built on Christianity. You could not become a state in the union unless you believed in God. We have drifted so far away from where we came from, and now we are paying the price. Violence from one end of the US to the other, not one state can build prisons fast enough, the feds cannot build prisons fast enough. There are more people waiting to go to Jail than there are in jail. Our nation under God is gone, forgive us O'Lord, for we have sinned against thee.

Answer 5

Or an Islamic Judge, the Quran?
Or a Jewish Judge the Torah?

Or a Daoist judge, the Dao de Jing?

Answer 6

The court house does not belong to the judge, it belongs to the people.

Answer 7

That would be ok in India, but of course, God is smacked upside the head and tossed aside in this country, unless of course when Congress feels we need Him.

Answer 8

I think religon has no place in law unless its a religious court.

Answer 9

dont go abusing their rights. Christian protestants FOUNDED this country, i think they have a right to put two stones with hebrew writings on them anywhere on their property.

Answer 10

It looked cute.