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To: Bogtrotter52
That’s okay, as long as it is not demanded or legislated as such.

Too late...three of the Ten Commandments (murder, robbery, perjury)--are codified into law as crimes, and have been for some time.

81 posted on 09/23/2007 10:53:33 AM PDT by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: pray4liberty

Those are written laws in non-Christian societies as well. And I do not believe murder was not considered a crime anywhere until the commandments were written. I was referring to the ones that deal with other behavior and with religion itself. Others have been tried I am sure, like laws against adultery. That makes me laugh, if a law against the seventh were ever enforced you would need a lot more jail space. Most people would not break the sixth, and the fact that it is a commandment has little to do with it. But take the old “Blue laws”. From what I understand they were first made because it was thought people should obeying the fourth commandment not shopping or working or going to a bar. We wisely got rid of those, though I am sure there are some who feel they would still be a good thing, even though it is certainly not the governments business.


100 posted on 09/24/2007 2:48:55 AM PDT by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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