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To: Destro
"Solon's Ten Commandments have far more right to hang in those places than those of Moses."

No, they don't. Moses brought the tablets down from Sinai at least 600 years before this guy. There aren't many that knew this guy and the founders were not much aware of him either.

"The Athenian's Commandments are far more noble and profound, and far more appropriate to a free society.

The commonality is mostly that they are a list of ten.

2. Do not speak falsely. (Thou shalt lie)
10. Have regard for your parents. (Honor your father and mother.)
9. Honor the gods. ( The greek gods were made up out of thin air as these "commandments" are)

3. Do good things. (The 10 commandments and what is written in the Bible ID and define what is good, these don't. These leave it open.)

The rest are contained in the Book of Wisdom. That book contains much more and predates this.

1. Trust good character more than promises.
4. Do not be hasty in making friends, but do not abandon them once made.
5. Learn to obey before you command.
6. When giving advice, do not recommend what is most pleasing, but what is most useful.
7. Make reason your supreme commander.
8. Do not associate with people who do bad things.

These have no prohibition on theft, murder, covetousness, adultery. They are worthless and so are the folks pushing them as worth something more than the 10 commandments.

89 posted on 08/23/2003 2:59:36 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: spunkets
Moses brought the tablets down from Sinai at least 600 years before this guy.

Did Moses pay Hammurabi any royalties?

91 posted on 08/23/2003 3:01:28 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorisim by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: spunkets
The geniuos of the Greeks is that few words impart much meaning. Do good things covers much. In contrast with Moses, Solon wastes no words with legalisms--he sums up everything in three words: do good things.
92 posted on 08/23/2003 3:02:59 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorisim by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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