Quote: Pariah said: Uhhhhh.....No it's not. An idea that comes from a religious background is not overtly religious in nature. God, for example (your primary bane in life), has long since lost His meaning, within the government, as a spiritual presence, and has been rounded down to an ideal entity that we are encouraged to be like. Another example is the fact that killing someone is against the code of Yaweh, but it can also be against the code of a lawful government that doesn't believe in a god. That's essentially why the 10 Commandments, rather that the entire Bible, are singled out within the courtrom.
First of all I just cut and paste the first list they had on wikipedia under 10 Commandments. Second, my point is not God is bad (that's never been my bane, organized religion is the thing I don't like. Which is why I'm agnostic.) My point is that the only 10 commandments that are actually worthy of being laws (murder,stealing) are already laws. The others fall under morals and religious laws. Explain to me why its necessary to keep the Sabath. Or how the Blind lady with the scales isn't technically a graven image.
Quote: Also, promoting a certain God was not against the vision of the Founders.
Yes it was, otherwise it would be in the Constitution. A lot of them believed in "god" but didn't want it to be a certain religion's god. In fact they wanted god kept out of government after all the problems that had taken place in England with State run churches.
