alt.education

"Jeff Strickland" wrote:
>"4012 Dead" wrote in message
>news:bgqcv3dc1r9jqg6s6sqji0b3f7r30us7fo@4ax.com...
>>
>> Here's a little quiz for you: how many of the commandments are encoded
>> in US law, or would even be found constitutional if they were?
>
>Nobody is asking for them to be codefied. They are in law though, such as
>the laws against murder, lying, cheating, adultry, to name a few.

There are no laws against murder in self-defense or for soldiers in
war (the commandment lists no exceptions). Of course, sanctions
against murder have nothing to do with the 10 commandments, since such
sanctions exist in every non-Christian/Jewish/Moslem country as well.

There are no laws against lying (there are laws against perjury and
fraud, and libel/slander, each of which usually involves a kind of
lying, but not against the general behavior of lying (or bearing false
witness).

There are no laws against cheating, and in most states (and not at the
Federal level at all) there are no laws against adultery.

>We have lots of laws that codefy some of the tenents in the 10 Commandments.

We have NO laws that codify commandments. We have laws that make
certain behaviors illegal, and all of those laws are based on
non-Biblical criteria and justification.

>Surely you do not suggest we wipe the books clean of laws having to do with
>murder or bank robbery because these topics are included in the 10
>Commandments.

The 10 commandments are utterly irrelevant to our laws. They should
remain so.

lojbab