Ten Commandments

There appears to be a lot of confusion among those interpreting the Supreme Court ruling on the allowance of Ten Commandments displays in courthouses. One of the clearest articles I've read is an AP piece by Hope Yen. In a nutshell, the Supreme Court (which has a Ten Commandments display of its own) says that it's all a matter of intention. If the display appears to be motivated by the desire to promote religion then it's not okay. But if the display appears to be motivated by a desire to show the role of the commandments in American history -- that's okay.

As fuzzy as that sounds I can live with it. Frankly, I'm less concerned about public displays than I am about private acknowledgment. (I don't use the word "private" in an extremely individualistic sense but in contrast to "public" as an official governmental realm. Why are we so hell-bent on getting the government to acknowledge the significance of our faith? Are we so insecure in who we are that we need their blessing to believe the way we do?). Sometimes it seems that we who scream the loudest for these symbolic acknowledgments in society are the ones with the weakest knowledge of the commandments themselves -- or at least their implications.