Nobody can dispute the fact that things like worshiping the wrong God, working on the Sabbath, and thinking your neighbor's spouse is cute should be criminal offenses.
What better way to make them criminal offenses than to amend the Constitution?
2007-09-29 08:37:38 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
BGrimey: I didn't say committing adultery should be against the law. I said thinking about committing adultery should be against the law. That way, all potential adulterers will be in jail and won't be able to commit adultery.
2007-09-29 08:42:16 · update #1
I'm An Atheist: We would use MY interpretation, of course. I would be the final authority on legal issues surrounding alleged violations of the commandments.
That way I would know they're being impartially enforced. (You read that right.)
2007-09-29 08:51:45 · update #2
Great idea. We should also bring back the "eye for an eye" method of punishment. So, if you lie, your punishment will be someone else lies to you. And if you work on the Sabbath, the punishment is you have to spend a whole Sabbath day doing nothing but sitting around staring at the ceiling.
Yup. That sounds like a great idea to me
2007-09-29 08:42:28 · answer #1 · answered by lindsey p 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
No...Separation of church and state is there for a reason. we could then would desire to comprise tenets from Islam, Judaism, interior sight American, Buddhists, Hinduism Taoism, Zen, honor each and all the saints in Catholicism, Quakers, Scientology, Christian Scientists, Unitarians, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and on the tip placed a clause denying all of it to fulfill the Atheists. Then, which faith may be the State faith? Which sect of christianity, the Baptists, the Methodists, the Presbyterians? i'm specific this has been a ingredient of communicate in the neo-con platform of the some distance acceptable. coffee: our rules are actually not based on the ten commandments. At no time, so some distance as i will tell by using a rapid examine of each document, is god reported or quoted in the bill of Rights or the form. Our rules are in accordance with violation of elementary human rights, a number of which coincide with the quite a few commandments. there is not any regulation that announces thou shall have not got the different gods before me, adultery isn't a criminal offense, and if honoring your father and mom have been a regulation we could have quite a few youngsters in penitentiary.
2016-12-17 13:01:28 · answer #2 · answered by trickey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I should hope not! Are you out of your mind? This country is in enough trouble right now, because of what little influence those right-wing fundies have caused! We do not need more religion involvement in the government, than we already have had! Bite your tongue, and go to your room!
The laws that we have on the books, more than cover any crimes that could be committed against the general public! the Bill of rights covers a lot of things, and the Constitution takes care of everything else! This country will not have a religious flatform! That is why we have separation of church and state! PERIOD!!!!!
This country will be just fine, once we get rid of all the junk, bush and his right wing cronies have thrust upon us, and repair the damage he has done! it will take a lot of hard work to get this country back where it should be, and without the ten commandments!
2007-09-29 09:30:44 · answer #3 · answered by Renee 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I surely hope you are being facetious.
There is no "wrong god" my friend. If you add the 10 commandments of the Abrahamic god, you must add all of the tenets of each religion on earth that is representative of the inhabitants of this country as well. The Constitution would get mighty crowded with dogma at that point.
If you add the 10 commandments to the Constitution, this becomes a theocracy... similar to communism. Is that what you really want?
2007-09-29 08:40:57 · answer #4 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Part of our country's freedom includes choosing your own religion. I'm not saying Christianity is bad, but it's not for everyone. Anyway, some of the commandments are laws. Like not stealing or killing, for example.
Anyway, doing adding them to the Constitution would make many non-Christians mad. It would be like asking for a nation-wide riot.
2007-09-29 08:44:44 · answer #5 · answered by R. 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, The Constitution included the separation of Church and State. Our founding forefathers must of have their reasons for including this in The Constitution.
2007-09-29 08:43:04 · answer #6 · answered by Ruth 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The commandments are God's law whether man enforces them or not. Many of them deal with the heart of a person, and how can the government judge the heart? Only God can do that, and He will.
2007-09-29 08:45:07 · answer #7 · answered by David C 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Nice thought- unfortunately it totally flips around things already in the constitution. Like freedom of religion.
There is no chance in the world that this would actually happen.
I am totally for the 10 commandments...but it has to be a choice. Not something that is forced on to people.
2007-09-29 08:41:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
No, committing adultery should not be against the law.
Freedom of religion specifically states that we have the right to have a God before Jesus Christ.
2007-09-29 08:40:23 · answer #9 · answered by Future 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
No. Not every American believes in the Ten Commandments. It's not what America is about. Freedom of religion, speech, choice etc....
2007-09-29 08:41:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋