Yeah, I wish this was more well known, that all these monuments were paid for by Cecile B DeMille and installed in 1951 as a publicity stunt for the movie The Ten Commandments. The way people act, you’d think these were original tablets from Moses.
But note the same argument used here one used to defend the Confederate monuments: removing them “erases our history.” And it is just as invalid an argument in both cases.
Personally, as a heathen atheist buddhist, I consider religion based on obedience to “commandments” to be one of the most significant causes of misery and evil. But there may be other alternative interpretations for the fundamental problems of society.