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Yet another "good Christian" playing politics with theocracy here in the
US.

Congressman Wants Citizens of ALL Religions to Reflect on the Ten
Commandments
Chris Rodda  print page
Fri Mar 19, 2010 at 06:28:17 PM EST

Well, spring is in the air, and that can mean only one thing. It's time
for a member of Congress to introduce a resolution proclaiming the first
weekend of May "Ten Commandments Weekend." This time, the resolution
comes from Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA).


These kinds of resolutions almost always contain a dose of Christian
nationalist American history revisionism, and Broun's resolution, H.
Res. 1175, is no different. In fact, just like Sen. Sam Brownback in his
2008 Ten Commandments Weekend resolution, Broun includes a quote from
John Quincy Adams in one of his "Whereas" clauses.

"Whereas the sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams,
declared the Ten Commandments to be 'laws essential to the existence of
men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation,
which ever professed any code of laws'"

And, just like Brownback did in his resolution, Broun omits the part of
the quote in which Adams made it clear that many of the laws of the Old
Testament were "adapted to that time only" and binding only on the
ancient Jews. Here's what Adams actually wrote, in a letter to his son:

"The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral
and religious code; it contained many statutes adapted to that time
only, and to the particular circumstances of the nation to whom it was
given; they could of course be binding upon them, and only upon them,
until abrogated by the same authority which enacted them, as they
afterward were by the Christian dispensation; but many others were of
universal application -- laws essential to the existence of men in
society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation, which ever
professed any code of laws."


(I think It might be relevant to note here that John Quincy Adams,
although personally quite religious, took his presidential oath of
office on a law book containing the Constitution rather than a Bible,
because he was swearing that as president he would uphold the
Constitution, not the Bible.)

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