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To: FreedomCalls
Why would it not be a violation of the Bill of Rights to admit that Mohammad is holding the Koran, but it would be a violation to admit that it depicts Moses holding the 10 Commandments?

I don't think it is. You missed the point. See post #17

26 posted on 11/14/2006 12:33:30 AM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3

"If ALL laws in our country stem from the 10 commandments can you rectify the incongruency of freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights and the commandments expressly forbidding religious freedom?"

The Freedom of Religion clause was a compromise so that none of the sects of Christianity would fear that one sect would dominate the national scene. It guaranteed religious freedom.

In regards to the first commandment of the Decalogue, that you should have "no gods beside Me", it was self-evident at the time of the 1st Ammendment that Christianity was the religion that proclaimed the character of the one true God.
(Try reading De Tocqueville)

There was no incongruency between the 1st Am. and the 1st Commandment at that time.

Islam, Judaism, Wican, Hinduism, Buddism, etc. had no influence or a very neglible one if at all during that time.

There just happens to be a problem today but not yesterday.


29 posted on 11/14/2006 12:55:22 AM PST by Vinny (You can't compromise with evil.)
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