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Even if that is true, to only put the Ten C. is historically
inaccurate and to claim it is "historical" is pretextual. Put up a
monument with great law givers from history and Moses gets in there
(not the Ten C. however); but he would be one of many. If you put up
the 10 C alone then you have a pretty in your face endorsemen And, whose 10 C do you put up? Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, General Protestant -- there are at least those 4 out there that are different; and whose translation. THe Portestant 2nd commandment prohibits "graven images." THe Catholic first commandment (notice already we have to make theological choices here) prohibits "idols." Jews prohibit "murder" as do some Protestants; Catholics and the King James incorrectly translate it as "kill" but this is not a battle of linguists, it is a serious religious and theological set of issues that are not nearly as simple as the arguments made by Judge Roy Moore in Alabama or the Texas Legislature (with their Luthern Ten C. monument). -- Paul Finkelman Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law University of Tulsa College of Law 3120 East 4th Place Tulsa, OK 74105 918-631-3706 (voice) 918-631-2194 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steven Jamar wrote: Well, first, I said "juridical", not "judicial." Second, our laws have come from somewhere, and that somewhere includes, in part, Moses. Hence heritage. |
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