Article: ACLU "Revisionist History On A Rampage"

[Starman3000m]

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The ACLU is committed to marginalizing America’s religious heritage by attempting to remove any expression of religion from the public square. They routinely attempt to bully public school administrations into rolling over for their radical agenda.

Our recent Giles County, Virginia, case is typical of their pattern of litigation.
As I shared earlier this week, the ACLU of Virginia sued the Giles County School Board to force them to remove a privately-sponsored historical display that includes the Ten Commandments as one of 29 framed documents, all of which played a role in developing our system of law and government.

The original display also contains the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, and others - bringing the total number of framed documents to 29.

The ACLU has made it their mission to remove the Ten Commandments from the public high school in the small Appalachian town of Narrows, Virginia. They contend that the Ten Commandments stick out like a “sore thumb” among the framed documents depicting American law and government at Narrows High School.

Liberty Counsel is defending the Giles County School Board.

“Revisionist history” on a rampage.

Whether the ACLU wants to recognize historical facts or not, the Ten Commandments played a significant role in the development of Western culture and the creation of our system of American law and government.

The Declaration of Independence mentions our “Creator,” and the Magna Carta and the Mayflower Compact both prominently mention “God” and His role in the minds of the men who built our nation’s foundation.

In fact, the vast majority of the founding documents refer to God’s role in inspiring our nation’s laws. One would have to re-write history to post foundational documents void of any mention of God. Even the approved Virginia history curriculum mentions the Ten Commandments and the role of Judeo-Christian thought in the development of American law and government.

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[VoteJP]

Excellent.

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“Revisionist history” on a rampage.

Whether the ACLU wants to recognize historical facts or not, the Ten Commandments played a significant role in the development of Western culture and the creation of our system of American law and government.

The Declaration of Independence mentions our “Creator,” and the Magna Carta and the Mayflower Compact both prominently mention “God” and His role in the minds of the men who built our nation’s foundation.

The problem is NOT with the ACLU as the problem is with Christianity.

In that the various Christian groups simply fight and even hate each other and often with venom, so that our government can not take on any one form of religion without all the other forms of Christianity crying bloody murder.

The main reference in the opening post is the famous 10 commandments, but there is in fact no less than five (5) different versions of the ten commandments, and it could be rightly argued that there are MANY more other versions of the 10 commandments as like in every different version of the Bible.

But just sticking to the five (5) different versions of the ten commandment as like this below:

1) The 10 commandments as told by the Catholic Church.
2) The different 10 commandments told by mainstream Protestant Churches.
3) The 10 commandments as told in the Bible Exodus 20:2-18
4) The Bible's Deuteronomy 5:3-22 version of the 10 commandments which is worded different.
5) The Jewish version of the ten commandments.

So the ACLU is not really wrong in this, as the religions are confused with each other.

 

[Merlin99]

How can one person be wrong about so many things.

 

[Zguy28]

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Saying God or the bible did not play a role in the formation of our nation is definitely revisionist history. Everything is driven by divine providence in one way or another.

However, so is the claims of many Christians who claim American law is primarily based on the Ten Commandments. It isn't. While some of our laws do line up with them (murders, theft, perjury), others do not (coveting, idolatry, parent honoring, telling a lie outside of court).