[Rhodes22-list] Jesusland and Moses

[brad haslett]

Robert,

I thought the Ten Commandments being in the Alabama
court house was harmless enough but the ACLU won their
case.  When the judge refused to obey the law he was
charged with upholding, he had to go.

The actual commandments were part of the Semitic
tribal law and were codified into ten, one for each
finger.  The Hebrews were held captive as slaves by
both the Babylonians and Egyptians and were influenced
by both the Code of Hammurabi and Egyptian concepts of
morality.  But for the reference to God, the Ten
Commandments seem pretty multi-cultural to me.

Perhaps in a courthouse they may be innapropriate
though since we don't have laws against coveting your
neighbors wife. Thats probably a good thing, I'd never
get out of jail!

Brad
--- Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:

> ed kroposki wrote:
> > Bob:
> > You have got to be kidding.  The ten commandments
> "are based
> > on a single scriptural and monotheistic base, have
> no
> > place in the laws of a secular government."
> (quoting Robert
> > Skinner in post below)
> > And the guy who got these was not a right wing
> Christian!
>
------------------------------------------------------------
> Ed -
> 
> I am not kidding.  The biblical "ten commandments"
> in my 
> not-so-humble opinion have no place per se in the
> our halls
> of government.
> 
> However, those sentiments pertaining to honesty,
> honor, 
> cupidity, etc., are in fact multicultural, and a
> re-expression
> of the majority of those injunctions in
> multicultural form is
> entirely appropriate -- highly desirable, in fact,
> as the 
> basis of a rational and just society.
> 
> We share those ideals with the majority of
> compassionate 
> and peaceful belief structures in play throughout
> the world.
> 
> I am neither anti-Christian or anti-anything -- I am
> pro 
> freedom, limited only by my impact on other's
> freedoms.  I
> thought that was what we were all about?
> 
> /Robert Skinner
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