PoppaGringo wrote:
You are sorely lacking in comprehension. Nowhere did I state we are any type of religion. What I aid was, we were FOUNDED on Judean/Christian morals and principles, not the religion. Sheesh...
I've been wanting to get back to you, I actually work for living...
The TEN Commandments as they relate to the Constitution:
1. I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. You shall have no other gods before me.
The U.S. Constitution does not mention God, Creator, Jesus, or Christianity anywhere. Nor does Constitutional law require U.S. citizens to worship a God. Nor does it prevent anyone from worshiping other gods or no god at all. (i.e. that "pesky first amendment, when will end????)
2. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain:
This commandment, to never take the name of God in vain, appears nowhere in the Constitution. We citizens can swear and curse any god, in any way we wish. (..except if we lived in a Theocracy)
3. Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you
Not only can American citizens not keep the Sabbath, but we can ignore it entirely without out violating the Constitution.
4. Honor your father and mother...
Sorry, but the Constitution does not require anyone to honor fathers and mothers. We can even despise and hate our parents all we want (just as the alleged Jesus taught his disciples in Luke 14:26), without violating Constitutional law.
5. You shall not kill (murder).
At first this may seem Constitutional but it cannot possibly agree with it for the very reason that the Constitution allows the declaration of war, which of course kills and murders many innocent human beings. Murdering innocent human beings doesn't even seem to bother many Christians!
6. You shall not commit adultery.
The Constitution says nothing about adultery. A man or woman can have sex with as many married people as they like without violating the Constitution.
7. You shall not steal.
Although states have laws against stealing that remain consistent with the Constitution, the Federal government, by using "eminent domain," can rob and steal from its citizens all it wants (taking private property for "public use," for example), without violating the Constitution. Close but no cigar.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Although one cannot lie in a court of law, while under oath, it says nothing about lying outside the court unless it constitutes slander. American citizens and sitting Presidents lie all the time without violating the Constitution. Moreover the Constitution specifically allows spying and countersurveillance, which guarantees lying to others. Close in some narrow cases, but not at all in most.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife..."
The U.S. Constitution says nothing against not coveting wives. You can desire your neighbor's wife all you want. Sorry.
10. You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.
The Constitution does not prevent you from desiring anything in, on, or around your neighbor's house, or any other house or thing for that matter.