Justice Antonin Scalia was clearly the biggest supporter of the displays, asserting repeatedly that the message conveyed by the Ten Commandments is both deeply religious and entirely constitutional. Even though Scalia was supportive, he chided Abbott at one point for downplaying the religious meaning of the Ten Commandments. It would be a “pyrrhic victory,” Scalia said, if Ten Commandment displays were allowed on the theory that they were secular. “Our laws come from God. If you don’t believe it sends that message, you’re kidding yourself.”
"our laws come from God"? Say that again? I didn't know that. In fact i was pretty damn sure that the laws were created by lobbyists, corporate legal minds, various think tanks, middling level bureaucrats working under orders and so forth. Indeed, i can't see how God has created a single law whatsoever. For Scalia to hold this position he must hold several disassociative positions simulataneously. That, according to both Law and the DSM is a sign/symptom of psychosis. Now God makes a law that holds that holding God's contradictory laws is insane. Isn't that a fine kettle of bread and fishes. In order to believe in the Ten commandments as god's law one must believe that various texts created by a bunch of different people, all with different perspectives and agendas, tell a "story" about someone, who for all archaeological evidence that has ever been documented, did not exist. If you believe that you have to accept that this one god told this one dude to tell a bunch of people that their other gods weren't as cool as he was. Where did these other gods come from if there is only one god?
But more bizarre is the failure of this line of thinking in accessing the actually laws and rules of God as they are expressed most clearly in the Torah. Just like the disassociative nature of the assumption, the complete ignoring of God's laws by one group to claim that they are beholden to god's laws, require a necessary and fundamental psychotic break. Deuterotomy and Numbers are indices of gods laws, virtually none of which are every followed or mentioned, unless you choose to buy kosher. And keep in mind that kosher certifying rabiis love the idea of artificial ingredients in everything because they can guarantee the kosherness. Why? Because for some inexplicable reason God didn't write text about the variances and differences of artificial ingredients. Nor has god supposedly written anything else at all since say a bunch of flakes in the roman empire, determined to create underlying revolutionary dialogs, wrote down some other stories.
Look, the most generous reading of the Declaration of Independence holds that even God didn't give laws. Only rights that are protected by the people who create governments and laws. If you truly worry about the future of the US you first have to worry about the mental stability of certain Supreme Court justices.
