Allegedly the Catholic Church condones statue worship. Now one version of the Ten Commandments can be found in the fifth chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy (also Exodus 20). Comparing Deut.
So, would posting the Ten Commandments in front of a courthouse really serve a purpose? The posting of the Protestant King James version of the Ten Commandments might not even coincide ...
For instance, the 10th Commandment gets it all backward. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house,” it says, and then goes on to get specific: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male ...
(The Jefferson County Courthouse monument depicts what is often called the protestant version of Ten Commandments, as opposed to the Catholic or Jewish versions of these verses in the Hebrew Bible ...