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First, we must erect a wall of separation between the concepts of a belief in God, and religion; they are by no means one and the same.

When Roy Moore began specifically promoting his sectarian view of God, is when this issue entered a different plane.

One of the questions that seemed not to have been asked in any reports on this controversy, is exactly WHICH Ten Commandments are inscribed in that monument.

They are certainly not the same Ten Commandments I learned growing up in a Catholic (if repressed) household, nor are they the same Ten Commandments that are inscribed in the walls of the synagogues that I've visited in the past, and they are not the Ten Commandments traditionally taught by mainstream Protestant Churches.

If we can't agree on the exact wording of these Commandmens amongst ourselves, the people to whom they truly pertain to, how can Roy Moore expect all those who enter the building to acknowledge what's written on that monument as being the Word of God?

Please tell me the ten commandments as you first learned them. The Ten Commandments that our nation under at its birth are the judeo-christian ten commandments. I was unaware there was another version.

I am not for mushing up our foundations, or denying them, under some clintonian PC diversity sensitivity crapolla.

Please tell me the ten commandments as you first learned them. The Ten Commandments that our nation under at its birth are the judeo-christian ten commandments. I was unaware there was another version.

I am not for mushing up our foundations, or denying them, under some clintonian PC diversity sensitivity crapolla.

First, we must erect a wall of separation between the concepts of a belief in God, and religion; they are by no means one and the same.

Actually, belief in "God" is a religious belief. It is of course distinct from atheism, agnosticism, or polytheism.

The next step is a belief that said God intervenes in the affairs of man. The "clockmaker" variety of Deism does not accept this principle, yet Deists believe in God. Incidentally, the "creator" related lines in the Declaration of Independence are not inconsistent with "clockmaker" Deism.

Once intervention is accepted, monotheism branches off into several different variants. The Ten Commandments only apply to Catholics and Jews...though there's nothing in them that would cause a Muslim to object. Moore's selection of the King James Bible version (as opposed to the US Supreme Court which just shows tablets with Roman numerals) further narrows the interpretation.

Every time that Government endorses one or more steps down this path, in any direction (including atheism), Separation is breached.

-Eric