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To: kellynla

Yeah, and Speaker Pelosi makes it a priority in her life to try and live up to most of the 10 Non-Binding Suggestions in Exodus 20 as well.(When she thinks it will win her votes, anyway.)


75 posted on 08/25/2008 9:00:55 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque
I wonder how many Christians actually do live up to the 10 Commandments in Exodus 20. The Second Commandment says:

Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven [sculpted] image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

It is the reason that Protestant denominations use a plain Cross, without the graven image of the body of Jesus hung on it.

Since the entire Catholic faith revolves around the use of graven images, from the Christmas Creche to the statues of Jesus and Mary, statues of Jesus on the Cross, and the pantheon of saints, the Catholic Church conveniently removed the Second Commandment as if it had never existed, moved Commandments 3 through 9 down one in number, and split up the Tenth Commandment into two, to cover the gap.

At least the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments stays faithful to that of the Old Testament.

By the way, how many modern Christians have stoned somebody to death for working on the Sabbath? How many have stoned their own child for acting disrespectful and failing to honor his or her father or mother?

Leviticus 20:9 For whatsoever man there be that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

For that matter, how many have read Leviticus and marveled at all of the laws that Christians (and all but the most Orthodox Jews) cheerfully ignore. It seems that, in the entire book of Leviticus, the only law that is still quoted today is the injunction against man lying down with man as with woman (it is the basis for Christian condemnation of homosexuality).

"One day a man was asked if there were any true atheists. Do you think, he replied, there are any true Christians?"

~Denis Diderot, Pensées philosophiques, 1746

91 posted on 08/25/2008 11:01:53 AM PDT by BlueSun ("When good does evil in its struggle against evil, it becomes indistinguishable from its enemy.”)
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