Charger Opinion

Why can’t people just look the other way and walk past?

Doug Hensley, Charger Staff

One of the most controversial issues in the United States since the beginning of our history has been religion.

Now more than ever, though, religion and what it stands for is being teste. For what reason? What harm could it actually do?

In a couple of counties in Tennessee, the Ten Commandments have been removed because people who criticize have questioned the right to hang the Ten Commandments in public places.

Recently Diane Paul, Bill McRae, and Providence Baptist Church Minister James Rennell questioned that right in Putnam County.

Many people who are trying to remove the Ten Commandments are supposedly Christians.

In my views, a true Christian would support the Ten Commandments in public places and would push to have them posted in schools.

I believe that the Ten Commandments should be posted in public buildings.

What’s the harm in a plaque on the wall taking up approximately 3 square feet of space?
If a person does not want to look at them, he could turn his head and look the other way.
What part of the Ten Commandments do people not like?

Is it where it says not to have any other gods before Him?

In Christian beliefs, He is the only true and living God who reigns forever, what’s left to worship?

Is it because it says that you should not make a carved image?

Is it due to the fact that no one should take the Lord’s name in vain?

I have a hard time believing that one, considering what I hear walking down the halls daily.

Would it be a problem in honoring their father and mother because that is just common sense and more of an issue with morals and values which should already be instilled in our characters and personalities.

Is it not being able to murder?

Do these people have it in their mind that they want someone dead and then there is that tingle of guilt lurking in their conscience that tells them no.

Maybe it is not committing adultery that they do not like.

When one gets married, however, they are then vowing against the adultery.
Maybe it is not being able to steal. They might have a house or bank in mind that they want to rob, and that would just rain on their parade.

Is it not being able to bear false witness against their neighbors?

I wouldn’t think that saying someone did something when they didn’t would be too high up on one’s priority list in the first place.

Could it possibly be the thought of not being able to covet ?

We all can think of something that we would love to have, but we all should know that it can’t be that way.

In my views it is crazy to even think of taking them down.

They should be posted to remind us of what happened in the past.

They should not come down because that would show that God does not rule in people’s lives.

Article prepared for web by Joy Wheeler