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To: The Philosopher who wrote (40735)	6/18/1999 4:02:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

If you're an atheist, and the Ten Commandments (or other religious texts purporting to be instructions from God) are posted in school, it does seem to resemble the state proffering religious instruction to your child, and sanctioning one particular sect, when all you are trying to do is get your child a public school education. Let me ask you this. When I read that, I thought, Well, if I were fighting that case, I would do some research on atheist writings, or the writings of non-theist philosophers, and come up with a Ten Commandments of Non-theism, and I would have them delivered (by parents) to each school in which the Christian Bible's Commandments were posted with a request to post them. One could come up with a wonderful list. And I would proceed with the case after the schools, backed by the Christian parents, had refused to post my group's Commandments alongside theirs. Would you be on my side or theirs, I am wondering? Your child could just avert his eyes from the statements of John Stuart Mill or Jeremy Bentham or David Hume.... Edit: If I win this case, the walls in those schools are going to be so congested with Commandments that they'll have to remove the blackboard.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (40735)	6/18/1999 9:12:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Do I have the right to get the version of the Ten Commandments I prefer posted? How is Congress going to decide which version to post? King James Version? Douay - the Catholic version? Latin Vulgate? New International Version? I just posted the complete King James Version, are they going to put all of each commandment in, or only the short version? I don't care which version they post, it will violate the rights of someone who wanted another version. Or are you one of those people who believes that the King James Version is just as God spoke it?