It never was based on the 10 commandments...ever. Just because it has some commonality...no shit stuff like murder is bad and stealing is bad...doesn't mean that it is based on it. Our roots are based on secular freedom and the freedom to worship as we see fit...our founding fathers and the SCOTUS both saw the dangers of prayer in government sponsored events and locations as an affront to religious freedom and giving the message that only religion X is welcome here (X usually being Christianity). If you want to stop on the street and kneel down and pray...no problem...just don't do it in a government building.
-----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 10:47 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Sarah Palin says American law should be based on the ten commandments On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The point of view that the US should be governed based upon the Ten > Commandments...or on ANY religious doctrine of any kind....is EXTREMELY > dangerous. You support it because it happens to be your religious dogma in > question. Ask yourself this: what if it wasn't? Would you still support it? She correctly said it was and is until recently. She said we should go back to rules and ideas that shaped this country from the beginning. We've turned against them as if what the founders did was wrong and needs to be eradicated. She doesn't want us to make laws based on the bible, just follow the same loose guidelines the founders did like with the ten commandments. > Question: Do you not see a danger in mixing religion with legislation? You didn't red her comments, that's not what she said. She was defending prayer, any kind of prayer. By outlawing public prayer we lose our roots based on religious freedom. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317919 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
