(July 27, 2015 at 6:43 pm)Beccs Wrote:(July 27, 2015 at 2:51 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Display of the Ten Commandments, like the one in Arkansas, refer to the historical role they served in the development of civil laws. As such the monument has primarily historic significance and incidentally religious significance. Devil worship had no such positive historical influence and erecting a monument to Satan is only a religious statement. Thus it is easy to justify the preservation of the Ten Commandments and the exclusion of the Satan statue.
Then let's put up a monument to the laws of Hammurabi.
They're much more comprehensive and are likely older.
And they have much more relevance in modern society than 10 "commandments" of which only a couple are actually in the laws of most nations: those against theft and murder.
The only commandments that have any use in law are:
Thou shall not murder
Thou shall not commit adultery (which is only really relevant in divorces since adultery is no longer a crime in most/all places in the US)
Thou shall not steal
Thou shall not bear false witness
They're also utterly mundane. Not unique to Christianity or its god at all. The other six are dumb.
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