That Judeo-Christian Narrative, aka, the Bible, is the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of Western Culture.

Unfortunately people are far more driven by emotion, than logic, so it is the most simple minded cartoons that serve to appeal to the largest herds.

Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion. One people, one rule, one god.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The foundations of political expression, where the various ideas, ideals, metaphors, factions, etc. interacted. Fusion and fission. Attraction and repulsion.

Constantine adopted Christianity for the monotheism, as the sides of the Roman Empire came together. The Big Guy Rules.

Making the Catholic Church the basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed.

When the West went back to democracy and republicanism, it required separation of church and state, effectively culture and civics.

Meanwhile it was one faction of the Jews, the Zealots, that were driven out of the Middle East by the Romans, for not accepting that their god had to submit to any other gods. So Diaspora Judaism has spent the last 2000 years in what amounts to a sulk. Now the Zionists are re-litigating the same issue. They want their big lollipop and no one is going to tell them no.

What if the Angles and the Saxons both had messianic cores, that prevented them from ironing out their differences? Where would European Civilization be today?

Every society needs those core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives to hold them together and give them focus, otherwise it all goes Tower of Babel and is scattered to the winds.

So in a very deep sense, the Ten Commandments are the Constitution of Western Civilization. The grain of sand at the center of the pearl, around which every generation has polished and added.

Yet under all the mythologizing, what we have are basic rules for a Bronze Age tribe, wandering in a desert. Don't question the tribal spirit. Don't mess with the other guy's wife, or take his stuff. Be happy with what you do have and don't be coveting what you don't. Etc.

Not exactly freedom of speech, or trial by a jury of one's peers, but a good start for the times.

Yet now it's supposed to be posted in schools across Alabama, or wherever, as if it makes sense to the average 10 year old with an internet connection.

At some point, the adults will return and all of this will look as stupid as it is.