I’m relatively certain this will annoy some of my right-wing readers.
You have right-wing readers?
I must.
Well, one or two.
I think Louisiana is making a big mistake requiring public schools to post the Ten Commandments for everyone to see.
First of all, it’s unconstitutional, although there’s no guarantee that the present Supreme Court will interpret the Constitution correctly.
Second, the biblical Ten Commandments are part of only two religions — Judaism and Christianity. As much as some people would have you believe those are the only religions that matter to Americans, millions of people have other religions or no religion at all.
In fact, the Ten Commandments date back more than 3,200 years and precede Christ himself by more than 1,200 years. The first four of them are relatively meaningless to day-to-day life and are actually something similar to a Superman movie.
The third one in particular is in dispute. The traditional belief is that it forbids use of the deity’s name in cruses, but a more modern — and to me more sensible belief is that using it to say God supports use in our disputes with other men is wrong.
In fact, America’s greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, said that instead of worrying whether God is on our side, we should worry whether we are on God’s side.
Remember that Christ himself said there were two great commandments that cover everything — love God and love your neighbor as yourself.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone to know that Americans came up with ten commandments that were far more useful.
Native Americans, that it.
Now there are 10 useful commandments.