The United States. They’re big on Christianity. It’s on our money, in our schools, even our national anthem, it’s everywhere. This is a Christian country, and everyone else is pretty much forgotten. Every other religion is apparently WRONG. God doesn’t like those people. Anybody who is NOT Christian is just about sick of it all, or they’ve grown used to it. Why should everyone else be forced to just get used to it? We can’t all believe the exact same thing. For all we know, the Christians are wrong, not everyone else. Minorities have no say. What ELSE is new, eh?
America wasn’t always Christian. That is a myth, a lie, and a fake. No more than 10 to 20 percent of the colonial population attended and belonged to a church. In addition, 75 percent of Anglican ministers during the Revolution left their parishes because they either supported, or were supported BY the Crown. Patriots ransacked all but one of their churches in the American colonies.
The government has even tried to post the Ten Commandments in our schools, government offices, etc. The Ten Commandments being posted is not doable as it is written. Unless it was VERY carefully gone about, if they were posted in government offices and schools, it would violate the principle of separation of church and state, mandated by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Most of the commandments are religious or partially so. The very first four are completely against the First Amendment.
Did you know? - Jesus only proclaimed five of the original Ten Commandments. In Mark 10:19 he said “Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor thy father and mother.” Interesting, those are the ones that are not dealing, originally, with God and religious practice. He also stated in Matthew 22:36-40 that the greatest commandments were the golden rules. Not the Ten Commandments.
In 1999, The House of Representatives passed a “Ten Commandments Act Amendment”. It was passed attached to a juvenile crime bill. It would have ALLOWED the posting of the Ten Commandments in any government facility including public schools, if it had been passed to law. However, it surely would have been found to be unconstitutional by the courts, as it fails all three criteria that have been proposed to test the constitutionality of laws with a religious content. Those who voted in favor of this amendment violated their oath of office, which clearly included their promise to uphold the Constitution.
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