The 10 Commandments: An Independent Spiritual Power

When I was growing up, when we took the 10 commandments out of schools, that's when this country went to hell in a handbasket. This sort of very formalistic state dictated religious expression was not the way to reach kids' hearts for faith at all, at all. When you're talking about formalistic state expressions of religion, you're not putting something powerful in a classroom so much as taking something that is powerful and draining in many ways the meaning and power behind it or from it.