Why did we decide to get rid of the ten commandments in our public schools?
I mean I know the ten commandments pertain predominately to Christianity, but seriously what religion does not agree with sayings from the ten Commandments such as "Thou shall not Kill, Thou shall not commit adultery, Thou shall not steal, and Honor thy Father and Mother? Essentially the ten commandments are the laws of society and the moral foundations our founding fathers layed out for America. Who got rid of the ten commandments in our schools? Why?
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Because they are too difficult for us to live by, so we keep lowering the bar on standards of behaviour to what we can comfortable clear. Having them posted just shows us how far we’ve fallen, and that doesn’t feel good.
The 10 Commandments were never meant to be a high jump, people!! They were meant to be a minimum standard, the lowest standard you could sink to and still consider yourself civilised:
Respect your parents;
Always tell the truth (even when it is difficult to do), and don’t spread gossip or lies about others;
Do not kill (either physically, or by having angry thoughts about someone);
Respect the marriage vows of others (in your thoughts, as well as actions);
Don’t take what doesn’t belong to you;
Don’t be jealous of somebody else’s possessions.
It’s a pretty sad day if we consider these as behaviours to aspire to. They should be a default setting, as natural as brushing your teeth in the morning.
See the SCOTUS decision of Abington vs. Schempp, 1963. A conservative-majority Supreme Court issued the ruling.
The first commandment, "You shall have no other gods before me", is obviously endorsing Christianity and the government cannot be used to endorse any religion.
The major problem with them comes with the 1st Commandment,
"You will have no God before Me."
Since it would be considered the Judeo-Christian God (Jehovah or Yahweh), that could be rather problematic for a Buddhist or a Muslim, and definitely an Atheist.
"WE" didn’t decide this issue! Liberal butt wipes like our President-elect did it!
They were removed based off of religious freedom for everyone. You cannot have a a free society and be a muslim and then have Christian teaching being ram down your throat.
The teachings are still taught but by law that can apply to anyone regardless of religion rather then religious teachings.
who says you cant have morality without a book that tells you to be moral? there’s a separation between church and state, so if you want your kids to be taught the 10 commandments, put them in a religious private school.
The ACLU fought like crazy against this. They have waged legal battles state by state. The 10 Commandments are rules of morality anyone could accept including Muslims.
Because people have perverted the meaning of the separation of the church and state. our founding fathers were christians and built our constitution based on Judeo/Christian law.
Religious freedom is a god given right. Our founding fathers understood that.
you point out in your question that the commandments closely mirror our national laws. well- we already teach the law in our schools, so teaching the commandments would be giving the same information twice, wasting time and public money. furthermore, teaching tenants of any religion in school is a slap in the face to our founding fathers, who saw it appropriate to write separation of church and state into the constitution. yes the fathers were christians. but they were wise enough to see that allowing the government to establish or endorse a religion would be our first step on the slippery slope to extremism. imagine if our nation stuck to strict religious teachings the way that the taliban regime did. not only would we have to worry about islamic extremists, we would be dominated by christian extremists.
separation of state and religion
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
– Thomas Jefferson
Becasue bringing religion into our education with OTHER religions is unwise thats why the parents and church are there to help children laearn the teachings all so the only laws that should be kept is not stealing and of course not killing or fighting
When we got serious about the separation of church and state. If a public school wanted to post the 5 precepts of Islam in all of its classrooms, how would you feel about that as a "Christian?"