MARCH 22 "REMOVED TEN COMMANDMENTS FROM COURT ROOMS"

     The great battle to have the Ten Commandments removed from Court Houses all across America...why?  Why do we have to remove them?  Ans.  Secularization of Society and Godlessness.
Why are they there in the first place? Ans. It's from the Bible that we get our Law. We read today, "These are to be LEGAL requirements for you".  God is laying down the law to help determine the difference between someone who purposely kills another (murder) and someone who unintentionally kills another (manslaughter or involuntary homicide).  If the intent was clear, then capital punishment.  "But if without hostility someone accidentally shoves another, throws something, drops a stone (not sure about that one)...but either way, in this case, "the assembly must judge between him and the avenger of blood" in other words, this is going to be a court case to prove it "was it an accident?".   Then God establishes "there must be witnesses, two at a minimum".  Until this day, we still call witnesses to the stand.  A witness that we find out is bribed, will be dismissed.  Where do we get that? Vs. 32 "Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murder".   
     A few chapters previously, God is laying down the Law for Inheritance of Property. Law that we still abide by, 'till this very day.  "If a man dies and leaves no son, turn his inheritance over to his daughter, if no daughter, to his brothers" and it goes on and on.  Having worked in Real Estate Law, I can tell you, these are still the guiding laws that are applied to find out who property goes to, when one dies without a will (Intestate). 
     This is the audacity of man and also the ignorance of man.  We take God's wisdom and laws and use them to run our society and courts; then turn around and demand the Ten Commandments to be taken out of the Court Rooms.  We are either ignorant or arrogant or both. 

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