5 Things the Religious Right Needs to Learn About the 10 Commandments

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Any historian will happily tell you that the Founders were...

as against state supported religion as anyone until Marx came along.

Several were closet atheists and all had close encounters with European state churches. English religious wars and the Massachusetts hangings of Quakers were fresh memories.

None of them afik, would want to hide the Commandments, but the thought that scholars like Madison and Jefferson saw them as a primary document behind human morality and national law is hilarious.

Jefferson, you might remember, rewrote the Bible leaving out the God parts.

http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/

Thomas Jefferson believed that the ethical system of Jesus was the finest the world has ever seen. In compiling what has come to be called "The Jefferson Bible," he sought to separate those ethical teachings from the religious dogma and other supernatural elements that are intermixed in the account provided by the four Gospels. He presented these teachings, along with the essential events of the life of Jesus, in one continuous narrative.