"As you walk up the steps to the Capitol Building which houses the Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view - it is Moses and the Ten Commandments!

"As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door. As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!

"There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.

"James Madison, the fourth president, known as 'The Father of Our Constitution' made the following statement 'We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.'

"Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said, 'It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ'.

"Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.

"Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.

"Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law....an oligarchy....the rule of few over many.

"The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said, 'Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers.'

"How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?"

Do I think that the Ten Commandments should be in governent buildings? No, I don't. Does that make me anti-religion or anti-God? Not at all. The Ten Commandments come from the Bible. The Bible, as far as government should be concerned, should not hold any more weight than the Qur'an. Sure, there are a whole lot more Bible-readers in this country than Qur'an-readers, but that does not matter, as far as government is concerned. The following comes from the Bill of Rights, or the first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution:

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The defense rests, your honor.

To me, religion is the most frightening thing on this planet. A person can warp any religion in to anything they want it to be. Religion has been responsible for the worst of the worst things in human history. Religious beliefs killed 3000 people and destroyed the two tallest buildings in the United States on September 11. Religious beliefs spurred the Salem witch trials. Most (if not all) cults are based around some warped religious beliefs.

I probably seem anti-religion, but I'm not. I just hate how very dark and evil people can use religion to do and believe whatever they want. It's very frightening to me. They so very blindly believe what they believe that they no longer see right and wrong. They begin to think that God wants them to harm, rape or even kill people. How is that NOT frightening? A demented mind could create any scenario it wanted using religion.