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To: antiRepublicrat
...let's hope I get it straight:

Your first one is not a commandment, just a statement, or preamble to your second one. Kinda like the Second Amendment.

Your last two are really part of the same one also, and they are really about the same thing.

You really didn't detail the differences between these different traditions anyway, which you ought to do if you propose to claim that they are mutually antagonistic.

36 posted on 09/30/2009 2:39:53 PM PDT by thulldud (It HAS happened here!)
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To: thulldud
Your first one is not a commandment, just a statement, or preamble to your second one.

That's the Protestant position. To Jews it is the first commandment.

Your last two are really part of the same one also, and they are really about the same thing.

That's the Catholic position. The others consider them to be separate commandments.

You really didn't detail the differences between these different traditions anyway, which you ought to do if you propose to claim that they are mutually antagonistic.

I didn't claim they were antagonistic, just different. There's a difference between killing and murder, there's a difference between stealing property and kidnapping (stealing a person). The two great Book religions, Judaism and the three major Christian sects, can't even agree on what their basic commandments are. This is a problem when you have people defining the laws.

BTW, I don't consider Islam to be a great religion, so mentioning only two was on purpose.

37 posted on 09/30/2009 3:42:11 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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