“Settling” for the Ten Commandments

Posted by Eric F. Langborgh on March 2, 2005

The Supreme Court today will hear arguments on whether it is constitutional for court rooms and other government property to display the Ten Commandments. While they consider this case, they may from time to time look up from the bench and observe the marble frieze above their heads that depicts, among other figures, Moses and the stone tablets.

Cal Thomas, one of the more clear thinkers on the Christian Right — and one who has rightly lambasted those who have made an idol of national politics — accurately portrays part of my thinking (or at least one aspect of my thinking) on this issue in his latest column:

“The Supreme Judge and the Supreme Court”

One caveat, though: I must take issue with Thomas’s question at the end of the piece, for in citing a current pop evangelical slogan he is “settling” for less than what he himself said earlier in the piece. A better, more accurate and biblical acronym would be “WDJD?”