The Ten commandments

I came across a article titled "Just How Many Commandments Are There Anyway?" The columnist who wrote is very adept at making people think, and it goes towards making his articles a interesting read.

For those who are disinclined to read the whole article (you lazy person, you), the article is about the display of the Ten commandments in goverment buildings in the US, which is supposed to have a secular government.

The arguement goes that, the ten commandments are now so much a part of an american's daily life that it is no longer religious, meaning that it is alright for the government to display it in its buildings.

But they seemed to have forgotten that the commandments included One: I am the Lord thy God. Two: Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. I'm not sure, but that sounds pretty religious to me. What's more interesting is the fact that the people that he interviewed who were initially in favor of display of the Ten commandments, changed their minds upon hearing those two commandments listed above.

It's tiring how the average American can actually take sides without knowing the relevant facts. Of course, the writer interviewed people in Times Square ( not a place that's likely to have religious knowledgables frequenting it.) But it's all the more scary when you apply this thinking to US's policies to the rest of the world. The US is a democracy, it is influenced by the people, what if the people makes decisions based on part of the story? And no one is around to tell the whole story? Or the people refuse to hear the whole story?