The Moose Hole - Review of The Passion of the Christ

[anduril]

On the issue of the Ten Commandments in an Alabama courthouse... I believe that the monument should not have been removed. It is a form of religious expression; it in no way abrogates the laws of the United States nor makes those laws subject to this religious document.

Furthermore, the Ten Commandments and the Mosaic law codes are, apart from any religious value they may have, foundational to the development of jurisprudence in the Western tradition on which the laws of the United States of America are founded. To display them in a courthouse, therefore, does little more than acknowledge their historic role in this development; they are in this sense no more than historical artifacts. In my opinion, it does not constitute an endorsement of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam as religions of the state.