They also displayed Hamurabi's Code in courthouses. Funny how that so rarely gets mentioned alongside the 10 commandments being there.
Seems you are awfully keen to shoehorn the "creator" mentioned into being the Christians God. Seems pretty simple to me... if the founding fathers hand intended the D of I to reference God, they would have said "God". The fact they deliberately chose to use the far more nebulous term "creator" speaks volumes. I.e. that each individual is free to believe in whatever creator heso wishes, and that the state has no place in telling you who the creator is.
Again, Obama's ommission does not for a moment suggest to me he doesn't believe in a deity, merely that he doesn't believe that deity is identified specifically by the government.
Considering from what i was reading that after the war - 1775 - 1783, the court houses were built around the late 1780's the Ten Commandments were erected.
BUT - still - there is one GOD - one Creator -
it is impossible to suggest that this is a relative statement. EVEN if others in the greatest of minority sects came [which they didn't] - they were not the majority - for that is why the Creator was added....
for the people.
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What are those laws exactly and how do they fit into the Constitution Rights?
The Code of Laws
1. If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be
put to death.
2. If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river,
if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be
put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.
3. If any one bring an accusation of
any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall,
if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.
4. If he
satisfy the elders to impose a fine of grain or money, he shall receive the fine that the action produces.
5. If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then
he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge's bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement.
6. If
any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.
7. If any one buy from the son or the slave of another man, without witnesses or a contract, silver or gold, a male or female slave, an ox or a sheep, an ass or anything, or if he take it in charge, he is considered a thief and
shall be put to death.
8. If any one steal cattle or sheep, or an ass, or a pig or a goat,
if it belong to a god or to the court,
the thief shall pay thirtyfold therefor; if they belonged to a
freed man of the king he shall pay tenfold; if the thief has nothing with which to pay
he shall be put to death.
EAWC Anthology: Hammurabi's Code of Laws
I mean seriously, the rights in the Constitution do not even begin to imitate this stuff.
Because Hammurabi's Code does not endow inalienable rights.
Seems like a new history evolving....gods and kings?
And the Constitution was built up against these things...see where i am with this?
The Creator [capitalized for the Christian God] ...does not say gods or creators.
WHERE these laws do exist in courthouses - from reviewing their history - is in Iraq, not America.
