What’s astounding to me is that they’re actually trying to say that the Ten Commandments are somehow the “basis of American law.”
1. In the founding documents of the US there is only vague reference to a “creator,” and a pretty clear prohibition about government mixing with churches.
2. Many of the founders were not Christians in the modern sense at all – they were products of the Enlightenment and if they believed in God it was an impersonal one that created things and left them alone. And the modern Evangelical take on Christianity did not exist in those times.
3. Most of those Commandments do not even carry the force of law in the US.
4. Teachers have a whole lot of mandates for their time; I suspect the net effect of posting this in most classrooms would that the poster would gather dust, especially in high school and college where nobody ever looks at stuff posted on the walls.
5. Seeing as the stalwarts trying to force this on schools do not seem to be able to follow those commandments themselves (how many has Trump publicly broken?), it would seem pretty hypocritical of many of them to propose this.
What’s astounding to me is that they’re actually trying to say that the Ten Commandments are somehow the “basis of American law.”
1. In the founding documents of the US there is only vague reference to a “creator,” and a pretty clear prohibition about government mixing with churches.
2. Many of the founders were not Christians in the modern sense at all – they were products of the Enlightenment and if they believed in God it was an impersonal one that created things and left them alone. And the modern Evangelical take on Christianity did not exist in those times.
3. Most of those Commandments do not even carry the force of law in the US.
4. Teachers have a whole lot of mandates for their time; I suspect the net effect of posting this in most classrooms would that the poster would gather dust, especially in high school and college where nobody ever looks at stuff posted on the walls.
5. Seeing as the stalwarts trying to force this on schools do not seem to be able to follow those commandments themselves (how many has Trump publicly broken?), it would seem pretty hypocritical of many of them to propose this.