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To: exnavy
Will someone please notify God that the ten commandments have no legal standing.

I'm happy to notify YOU that most of the 10 Commandments not only have no legal standing here, but OUGHT NOT have legal standing in any civilized country.

Check out the first four:

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

These might apply where the Taliban rules, but they have no business being enforced in this land of the free.

13 posted on 08/24/2003 11:24:46 AM PDT by jlogajan
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To: jlogajan; sinkspur
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15 posted on 08/24/2003 11:28:50 AM PDT by f.Christian (evolution vs intelligent design ... science3000 ... designeduniverse.com --- * architecture * !)
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To: jlogajan
The last one you listed is codified for most jobs in the public sector.

41 posted on 08/24/2003 1:14:51 PM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: jlogajan
Why do we enforce "Thy shalt not murder?" Seems to me that someone is forcing there religion on us here. Why does society force this law of negating my right to murder someone? Here is the fallacy of your statement. No one in this country is forcing anyone to follow the Ten Commandments!

By the way, the fourth commandment is no longer in effect! Shows your theological ignorance here as well. It's the only one of the ten that Jesus did not reconfirm. Let me ask you this my friend. If the world today, immediately began to follow the nine remaining commandments left on the books, would this be a better world? To answer no would show not only your ignorance, but stupidity as well.

The commandments are basic spiritual laws that will destroy any society or nation that negates and ignores them. Here's the principle! "The nation that forgets GOD, will be turned into HELL." Now you understand why this country is on a downhill spiral, rolling down hill, like a snowball headed for hell.

"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."

57 posted on 08/24/2003 2:09:14 PM PDT by evangmlw
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To: jlogajan
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

You might want to send this to the Supreme Court as a gentle reminder that the "author" of the "Wall of Separation and State", Thomas Jefferson, voted for laws as a state legislator making breaking the sabbath a crime punishable by law.

In other words, Jefferson voted to codify the 4th Commandment of the Decalogue as a state representative.

Should we impeach him posthumously?

61 posted on 08/24/2003 2:20:06 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jlogajan
Sorry, your wrong.
132 posted on 08/24/2003 5:27:04 PM PDT by exnavy
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