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Politics : One nation under God

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From: redfish	12/7/2004 7:42:44 PM
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Here's one place you get into trouble with the ten commandments: "You shall have no other gods besides Me...Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..." One is required to belief in God and God alone. This prohibits belief in or worship of any additional deities, gods, spirits or incarnations. To deny the uniqueness of God, is to deny all that is written in the Torah. It is also a prohibition against making or possessing against objects that one or other may bow down to or serve such as crucifixes, and any forms of paintings or artistic representations of God. One must not bow down to or serve any being or object but God. One is prohibited from making sculpture of human beings even for the fine arts. en.wikipedia.org That is definitely not the typical Christian understanding of that particular commandment. If you put the Christian version on the courthouse wall, and it turns out the Hebrew version is the correct version, aren't you kind of screwing everybody? So I think before we start putting the commandments up in our public buildings, we should decide on what version of them is true and accurate, so that we don't accidently shoot ourselves in the foot. Since Moses was the Hebrews' go-to guy, I think their version is probably more accurate ... they had a bigger stake in Moses, while Christians have a bigger stake in Jesus.

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