MSNBC - Supreme Court weighs Commandments cases

MSNBC - Supreme Court weighs Commandments cases

This article is tough for me. I personally don't think that the ten commandments belong in government buildings. That's fine if your morality is based on the ten commandments, but mine is not, and much of the American legal apparatus comes from other places, as well. The people in the article claim the ten commandments unify Americans, but they don't. Those people were already unified. They keep the non-Christians separate, in what is supposed to be a country without an official religion. To emphasize the point... what would all those people who claim that it's celebrating American legal history say if there were a giant statue of I dunno... say, Zeus, with a plaque that read "All Hail Mighty Zeus, King of the Gods!" Most likely, they'd want it removed. But classical Greek knowledge was instrumental in the creation of our legal system. Perhaps that's too extreme an example... but it's one of the few ways I can demonstrate that it might have been a part of our legal system's development, but that doesn't mean that we need a giant statue of it. Our system is supposed to evolve to be functional and effective for all kinds of people, and our society is becoming more and more pluralistic. Clinging to the past is something that won't actually help us to grow into the future. And if it were a symbol of a religion that weren't yours, you could see how it might be a divider instead of a unifier.