Dear Clerk:

No-one in the Universe who is very sentient can avoid the Big Question of origins and powers greater than the Universe.

The use of the word God is a different matter altogether, since ti defines boundaries to the free exercise of religious thought just as it would if the word Yaweh, or Kong, were used instead.

But at least, it can be interpreted as inclusive of all those who reflect on the nature of the transcendent infinite.

The "Ten Commandments", being as they are a crude moral code forwarded by an obscure cult from the third century BC, is another matter altogether.

If you insist on calling God into it, at least leave the definition of the word, and all the implications thereof, to the free moral choice of the citizenry and keep the goddamned law-makers out of it. Leaving God to the individual is the most God-like choice you could make.

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