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Mike Davis

Mike Davis was born in Atlanta, and grew up deep in the heart of the Bible belt. He left the Baptist Church and became an atheist at the age of fourteen after reading Bertrand Russell's Why I am Not a Christian. He received a B.A. in German literature from Emory University, and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. For the past twelve years he has worked as a corporate trainer, project manager, and technical writer for the two of the nation's largest corporations. He has recently completed a book-length manuscript entitled The Atheist's Guide to the New Testament.

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The Ten Commandments Are Not Part of Our Secular Legal Heritage —( Mike Davis )

"Controversies over the display of the Ten Commandments on public property generally do not focus on religious issues. More often, the justification is based on the supposed role of the Ten Commandments in the secular development of Western, and specifically American, legal principles. But did the Ten Commandments really play any role in the founding principles of our legal system? The obvious conclusion is that the Ten Commandments of the Hebrew Bible do not form any part of our Western legal heritage."

Published: 6/24/2007