So… Are we counting them according to the Jewish, Catholic, or Protestant numbering systems (which are all different)? And would that constitute the state declaring that one the right religion? Are we taking into account that Exodus contains a later chapter that says what we call the Commandments aren’t the Commandments but give something else as the content of the original tablets? And which translation are we using – and does any state legislature have the power (and intelligence) to designate any particular translation the ‘right’ one? How about the Founding Fathers who refused to use the King James Version ‘cause he was such a jerk and stayed with the Geneva Bible? Or the churches that still recited the Lord’s Prayer in the Bishop’s Bible instead of the later KJV ‘cause they didn’t like the new-fangled tampering with the Scriptures?
So… Are we counting them according to the Jewish, Catholic, or Protestant numbering systems (which are all different)? And would that constitute the state declaring that one the right religion? Are we taking into account that Exodus contains a later chapter that says what we call the Commandments aren’t the Commandments but give something else as the content of the original tablets? And which translation are we using – and does any state legislature have the power (and intelligence) to designate any particular translation the ‘right’ one? How about the Founding Fathers who refused to use the King James Version ‘cause he was such a jerk and stayed with the Geneva Bible? Or the churches that still recited the Lord’s Prayer in the Bishop’s Bible instead of the later KJV ‘cause they didn’t like the new-fangled tampering with the Scriptures?