Who came up with this crap? Charlton Heston?
The 10 Commandments – God’s Revelation in the Old Testament
The 10 Commandments are found in the Bible’s Old Testament at Exodus, Chapter 20. They were given directly by God to the people of Israel at Mount Sinai after He had delivered them from slavery in Egypt:
“And God spoke all these words, saying: ‘I am the LORD your God…
ONE: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.’
TWO: ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image–any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.’
THREE: ‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.’
FOUR: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.’
FIVE: ‘Honor your father and your mother.’
SIX: ‘You shall not murder.’
SEVEN: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
EIGHT: ‘You shall not steal.’
NINE: ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.’
TEN: ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.’
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Are you fucking kidding me?!!! We’ve murdered and terrorized millions of innocent humans with taxpayer dollars for generations. We dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki vaporizing hundreds of thousands unknowing men, women and children. We’ve mutilated and displaced hundreds of thousands in Vietnam, Korea, Afganistan and Iraq, etc. I say, “we” because “we” have not stopped this insanity. When you finance both sides of a war, you win! When you loan poor and starving countries money in exchange for their infrastructure and souls, you win! When you destroy the moral values, hopes and dreams of children through fear, distraction and misrepresentation, you win. No higher being (if such a thing exists) would command us to do anything or judge us. Requiring a god implies that we are an unintelligent, impractical, non-reasoning species without any sense of order or social responsibility. Do we really need the ten commandments to tell us that we should not murder? Do we really require manufactured documentation to tell us how to work within the confines of a shared existence? We have been commanded by those who seek to gain fortune and power via the weakness of our minds and the fear in our hearts. I am so sorry we have ended up here in this time of desperation, but we need to rally together NOW!. Please wake the fuck up. I have kids. Do you?
Faith is a natural part of the human being; it is part of human nature. To have faith in God means that you believe in something. You don’t have to believe in anything, and that’s your choice, but you cannot go around destroying the hopes and beliefs of others. Sure we may not live in a perfect world with religion always separated from government, but we have to work towards a better one. For many people, the Ten Commandments gives them something to strive for – goals that – if accomplished – will better our world. That doesn’t necessarily mean that God is an old man with a long gray beard or that he actually wrote the Ten Commandments, it means that there is some greater diety out there, or some cosmic force that initiated the Big Bang. And often times, it is very comforting to know that we are not alone, that when we die we go somewhere, and that our life is not pointless. I am a child, and I believe.
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