alt.education

"Bob LeChevalier" wrote in message
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> "Jeff Strickland" wrote:
>>"4012 Dead" wrote in message
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>>>
>>> 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).

Murder in self defense is not murder. War is not murder.

The Commandments do not admonish against killing, they admonish against
murder.


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.
>

Which emphasizes a higher power.



> 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).
>

Now you are splitting hairs.



> 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.
>

Well you say that, but they are still in the Commandments.



>>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.
>

The display of the 10 Commandments is never bad. You might not like them,
and you got your buddies at the ACLU to go along, but they are never bad,
and we need justices with a spine.