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So our laws are based on ?????

If you can't tell right from wrong without the help of a book full of stories from the great invisible guy in the sky then you have more severe issues that need to be delt with than this.

I may be making an incorrect assumption, but with Tomii's thinking as linear as an 11-year old prepubescent girl's chest, I think I'm correct when I say that his/her point is that the law of the land, is in fact based on the Ten Commandments, that the Founding Fathers inserted many religious references into our government at its inception, and so therefore religion is a fundamental basis of government and that references to it, visual and otherwise, are valid and shouldn't be censored.

Whether or not you believe it Esdim, would then only be valid if you are a Founding Father. It's not the point.

Edited, Mon Jun 27 11:39:53 2005 by Atomicflea

I have to admit that the tin breasts of a giant woman with arms upraised was messing with my moral compass and driving me towards premarital sex and impure thoughts.

Make sure they indict that Michaelangelo character, then. And that Milo guy. Freakin' perverts.

Oh, and because I like a good de-rail as much as the next guy, naked statues are definately responsible for the decline of western society. That and the coming of the Furby.

Meh, more of if you believe "the only reason I obey the law is because it says so in the bible" then you have other things that need seeing to before you worry about the ten commandments not being posted somewhere.

One of Letterman's Top Ten lists?

Top Ten Ways To Make Religious History More Entertaining

10. New chapter of the Bible: "The Book of Regis."

9. Instead of parting Red Sea, Moses drives Ford pickup into a Red Lobster.

8. After David slays Goliath, he is elected Governor of Minnesota.

7. Each psalm has to include the word "jiggy."

6. Lord is asked to perform greatest miracle -- get Knicks in playoffs.

5. At end of Jonah and the whale story, Roy Scheider blows up whale using pressurized oxygen tank.

4. All new Book of Genesis explains why they've sucked since Peter Gabriel left.

3. The Book of Judges expanded to include Koch and Judy.

2. Epic new film: "The Ten Commandments Broken By Darryl Strawberry"

1. Scratch 'n' sniff plagues of Egypt.

I'm not so sure any western nation has laws "based" on the ten commandments. Perhaps Tomii lives in Iran or Saudi Arabia or ?

According to: http://king-james-bible.classic-literature.co.uk/exodus/ebook-page-20.asp

The 10 Commandments in Exodus 2:x are:

20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

20:13 Thou shalt not kill.

20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

20:15 Thou shalt not steal.

20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ***, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

I count three of the *ten* that are actually regularly enforced as serious crimes: kill, steal and false witness. Adultery? Pfft.

Most of the other commandments you are totally free to ignore in the US:

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Also, those "manservants" and "maidservants"...ya...those are slaves. We don't do that anymore.

English Common Law?

Is her mom hot too?

She must have a very...agile...*** to climb those stairs.