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Thread #79712   Message #1450546
Posted By: CarolC
02-Apr-05 - 09:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
Subject: RE: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
Thou shalt have no other Gods before me... Hey, if one takes that to mean a belief in Christainity then that's the way the see it but it doesn't have to mean Christainity...

It only applies to the monotheistic religions. Many religions have more than one diety, and so according to the ten commandments, those religions are in violation of the commandment about worshipping only one God. So while it's not specifically Christian in nature, it does discriminate against all of the polytheistic religions, of which there are many, with many millions of adherents.

One thing that all religions have in common is a "higher power". Okay, some folks believe in many "higher powers"... Could it not be argued that in *any* religion that its members would at least submit to the "higher power" of that religion?

They might submit to higher powers, but they are inviolation of the commandment to only worship one God.

Yeah, just because the "Ten Commandemnts" comes from a book of the Judio/Christain faith, they are universal enough to cover other religions...

No they're not. They discriminate against all religions except for the monotheistic religions that honor the sabbath.

And my biggest complaint about your post is your suggestion that the ten commandments are only common sense. Some of them are, and some of them have nothing whatever to do with common sense.