First, a little bookkeeping. Several readers wrote to correct my assertion that God imposed a flat tax on the Hebrews. They explained that God’s half-a-shekel tariff is actually a head tax. With a ...

The Ten Commandments are listed twice in the Torah. Once in the book of Exodus, and the other time is found in the book of ...

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A Ten Commandments display returned to the historic Rutherford County Courthouse despite a 2002 federal court order to remove ...

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 ...

Federal law trumped what protesters say is the word of God Wednesday when workers moved a Ten Commandments monument out of the rotunda of the Alabama state judicial building. The 5,300-pound statue ...

The Ten Commandments are not an independent list of fundamental principles, but rather the nucleus from which the entire ...

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Communism is enjoying a resurgence today, even in America. But communism is against each of the Ten Commandments and vice versa. How does communism violate all ten points of the greatest legal code ...