Mankind had existed for those 2,500 years with no rules with which to govern or control themselves. Adam and Eve in the ...

In requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in schools, what moral lessons do proponents of House Bill 1145 want students to learn? Let’s start with the last commandment as stated in Exodus: “You ...

"If we look at the whole story - from the Ten Commandments to the instructions for the Mishkan, a very clear lesson emerges." ...

A Texas statute mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state had been blocked by a federal district court and by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals. But those ...

“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,” trumpeted Donald Trump on his Twitter knockoff site, in the wake of the passage of a widely-reported new law in Louisiana. Trump wasn’t exactly lying, for once, as he ...

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