Ten Commandments

I feel The United States, like many other nations, is dealing with issues of separation between the government and religion. One of the several issues between church and state is the display of the Ten Commandments in the public, such as government buildings, parks, and schools. The first amendment of the United States Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” People are free to worship any religion any way they please and the national government cannot favor any one religion over another. Clearly, exhibiting the Ten Commandments violates the 1st Amendment because a majority of public areas or property is setup and mostly funded by the government. Therefore, the government cannot be allowed to endorse The Ten Commandments because of its connection with the Hebrew Bible. The main objective at risk is the Constitution’s first amendment that says the government cannot establish a national religion and no religion gets special privileges over another. All the religions should be seen as equal and no one religion is better than another.
Many people argue about the display can be interpreted differently and that there are two sides to this predicament. On one side of the dilemma are the people who disapprove of the display of The Ten Commandments. These people feel that posting of the commandments is strictly encouraging religion or establishing a national religion for the United States. They consider the display of the commandments as the government’s way of placing sole validity upon the Old Testament. Thus other religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and hundreds of other religions are unacceptable, which makes the government look as if it has become strongly against religious acceptance. This group believes the United States is a mixture of people from different faiths and that it is unjust to display specific religious symbols and not others.
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