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Thread #79712   Message #1450615
Posted By: CarolC
03-Apr-05 - 12:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
Subject: RE: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
There's nothing wrong with them, Bobert, for you and anyone else who embraces them as a part of their religious/spiritual beliefs. For everyone else, some of them are edicts that amount to discrimination when combined with government in a country like the US.

How about if I start telling you that what I believe is just plain common sense and I put commandments in your courthouses that tell you that you shalt believe in reincarnation, and also that you shalt worship me because I am a tiny spark of divinity. Or maybe that you shalt put offerings of food out for my friends' golden statue of the god Pan. You might not want that one in your government buildings. The commandments that I have a problem with have no more basis in common sense than what I have just given here as examples.

You don't have to like the separation of church and state, but that's what is guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States. So tough luck.

You are perfectly entitled to your beliefs, robomatic. But you are not entitled to force your beliefs on anyone else. At least not in the United States, you're not.