The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.