no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

They would have been flaberghasted at what government is doing to religion in the public forum today and what they are doing to the Ten Commandments and Christmas. The peo[ple trying to strip christian heritage out of our society has a very negative agenda going on.

It is diversity in all forms that is America's greatest strength... If the founding fathers were as wise as you believe, then I believe they would be wise enough to recognize and be proud about how this country has grown, prospered, and matured without (or at least minimally with) the detramental influence of any dogmatic sway...

Wonder why Moses and the ten commandments are sculpted so prominently in many of our capital buildings if they did not reverence the bible and hold it so high in their writings?

I think you are all very wrong in your beliefs. I think you don't want the bible to be a true book and thus all your negativity towards the Lord Jesus and the bible. That is ok but I think you all are very biased and wrong in your thinking.
Paul

Wonder why Moses and the ten commandments are sculpted so prominently in many of our capital buildings if they did not reverence the bible and hold it so high in their writings?

I think you don't want the bible to be a true book and thus all your negativity towards the Lord Jesus and the bible.

What if we actually wrote all 10 of the commandments into our laws?


ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'

We'd have to throw out the First Amendment and the whole concept of freedom of religion.


TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a graven image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'

Wouldn't this make all art, photography, TV, movies, etc. illegal?


THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'

The jails would be filled to overflowing if we tried to enforce this one.


FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'

No more Sunday football games. Would we arrest people who just goofed off all day Sunday instead of keeping the day "holy"?


FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'

Nice thought, but I know a lot of people who treat their kids like crap. Do they deserve to be honored? What about honoring your children? How do you enforce a law like this?


SIX: 'You shall not murder.'

This one is already pretty much covered, but we make exceptions for things like self-defense, wars, and executions.


SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'

Yikes - if this was written into our laws the prisons would be bulging even more.


EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'

Already covered quite nicely by the laws of pretty much every nation that has ever existed.


NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'

Do we start arresting people for bad-mouthing others and gossiping? Doesn't this run the danger of interfering with the concept of freedom of speech?


TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'

Isn't one of the basic concepts of capitalism that you see the neat stuff others have and want to get some for yourself? Advertising is all about creating demand by making us want to "covet" things. If this were written into law our whole society would have to change.