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It is unusual for RtO to quote Denis Prager approvingly, so watch closely (it won't happen again):
The Ten Commandments are predicated on the belief that they were given by an Authority higher than any man, any king, or any government.But it seems that nowadays, some Christian teachers have discovered a way to rank the commandments. I can see that, in the 21st century, amassing oxen might seem to be of less moment than, say, dishonoring parents. But I cannot find any warrant for treating one commandment as less authoritative than another.
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| Another Republican "inoperative statement," apparently |
This is more than somewhat ironic, given the clamor to republish the commandments on every government lawn and foyer. Possibly the Christians treat the Decalogue more as a talisman than as a directive. In any event. there is not much evidence that they have ever read the document, let alone taken it to heart.
UPDATE Can't count, doesn't think, don't talk too good neither. Did Jeb learn nothing from Mitt?
I bring this up in the context of the Republican assault on Planned Parenthood, which is based on false testimony (forbidden by God Almighty, in Commandment 8 or 9, depending on who's counting).
ReplyDeleteWhich part? This one?
Funny how you could get through all that Ten Commandments blather without mentioning just once the over 700,000 murders of convenience per year.
No. Not funny. Opposite of that.
The part about selling the parts.
ReplyDeleteI don't subscribe to the 10 (or possibly 11) commandments, but I do understand that they are equal. A genuine moralist would be careful about that. The penalties are the same, even if the violations do not seem (to my Enlightened way of thinking) to be.
I am playing their rules.
The part about selling the parts.
ReplyDeletePP isn't giving them away; they are charging an additional amount above and beyond what PP was paid in the first place for the abortion.
How is that not selling parts of "the product of conception"? (Who could have imagined a formulation that disgusting?)
I don't subscribe to the 10 (or possibly 11) commandments ...
ReplyDeleteSo you are okay with disrespect, murder, lying, stealing, covetousness, and adultery?
... but I do understand that they are equal.
That word, "equal" doesn't mean what you think it does.
They cannot possibly be "equal", as even superficial examination should reveal. Some of the commandments, the last five or six, have an immediate impact in the here and now. Which is to say, obeying them makes a difference in this life, not the next one.
That means they are conceptually not the same as the first four.
But I can see that for someone OK with murder, that distinction is meaningless.