Monday, June 27, 2005
Public Displays of the Ten Commandments
I haven't read today's decisions yet. I am somewhat religious, I am not Protestant. I don't know what kind of monument I'd feel comfortable with to say "Law is good. Even imperfect laws, and in some societies even laws that lack Establishment and Free Exercise clauses, are better than anarchy. Regardless of how we got the Ten Commandments, their mythos, including the iconic two tablets, are the foundation of the earliest in the chain of bodies of law that got us where are secular law is today."
I suppose I'd be less comfortable with busts of Isaac Newton if there were people today who were actively trying to kill other people for heretically believing that Relativity better describes the Universe than does Newtonian mechanics.
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