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To: Happy2BMe
Now am I going to jail or what?

No, you are going wherever it is they send people who dance around questions without answering them. Those people answer other questions which they make up in their own minds so they can pretend they answered the question which was actually asked.

I'll refresh your memory. The question was; Which of the commandments would you have government enforce?

139 posted on 08/21/2003 7:15:04 PM PDT by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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To: Protagoras
"I'll refresh your memory. The question was; Which of the commandments would you have government enforce?"

Government enforces laws created by it's citizenry and enforced people through legislation.

The laws are no more or no less righteous than the people who make them and enforce them.

In a God-respecting society, laws enacted to respect other people's rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness do not contradict the precept that God is the source of that society's goodness and righteousness.

In a society that does not have God (yes, the God of the Bible - Jehova Jirah and all His other many names), there is no longer a moral sense of unity among the people - a void exists where righteousness once did.

I skirt no questions or issues here. A Godless society is a doomed society.

Without God, a society is left to none other than it's own devices for survival, inspiration, and direction.

The inspiration and direction cornerstone used at the founding of America was the Ten Commandments and a belief in the Supreme Being as revealed in The Bible.

Thanks to the relatvism movement of the 1800's and the humanist movements of the early 1900's, God has been relegated to a fictitious character in an irrelevant fablebook known to agnostics and atheists of today as "The Bible."

This is where you find yourself.

141 posted on 08/21/2003 8:20:51 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (LIBERTY has arrived in Iraq - Now we can concentrate on HOLLYWEED!)
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To: Protagoras
The enforcement of all of the Ten Commandments by government has never actually been accomplished in the United States (or for that matter, anywhere in the world successfully - even in Israel during the time of their greates kings, David and Solomon).

The "spirit" of the Ten Commandments - "The Law" is what is even more significant than "The Letter" of the Law.

To remove the inspiration and direction and deny a power higher than the weak and corrupt nature of man over a nation is to curse that nation with it's own damnation.

All of the Ten Commandments dealing with the protection and respect of life, liberty, and property MUST be enforced by governement if the government is to maintain a civilized society.

True, the term "civilized" is objective in terms of how much and where "God" or "godliness" or "things pertaining to God" are permitted to surface or be accepted outright or rejected as something illegal or objectionable as a whole to society.

The problem here is not the edicts of the Ten Commandments (the protection of life, liberty, and property), but the acknowledgement of Almighty God.

This is the most difficult poison agnostics and atheists have to rid themselves of via crafty words, corrupt legislators, and manipulative mass media.

Stalin tried it and failed. Lenin tried it and failed. In fact, there is actually more religious freeomd in the former Union of the Socialist Soviet Republic than presently exists in the United States.

You should be rejoicing.

142 posted on 08/21/2003 8:37:02 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (LIBERTY has arrived in Iraq - Now we can concentrate on HOLLYWEED!)
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To: Protagoras
I'll refresh your memory. The question was; Which of the commandments would you have government enforce?

To late!

Through the laws of the land written by mere men most are enforced ! A more pointed question would be which law should be ignored making the breaking of basic morality possable?

But also that does not mean that just because a law is written means that the law is moral or just!

143 posted on 08/21/2003 8:46:46 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK ("Lord make me fast and accurate")
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