The Ten Commandments

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you cant seriously regard stalin as an example of how "atheists are killing christians"

but IF you are, then i am entitled to sing "crusades, crusades, crusades" untill people bleed from their ears.

Crusades! Crusades, crusades crusades!

Crusades! Crusades, crusades crusades!

Crusades! Crusades, crusades crusades!

Crusades! Crusades, crusades crusades!

Crusades! Crusades, crusades crusades!

Crusades! Crusades, crusades crusades!

Crusades! Crusades, crusades crusades!

Crusades! Crusades, crusades crusades!

If you read the book Jesus Freaks it tells the story if many martyrs who stood up for what they believed in to the bitter end.
Many were killed by commies.

The arrangement of the 10 Commandments is slightly different in Catholicism and Lutheranism to the arrangement in Judaism and in non-Lutheran Protestant denominations. Catholics and Lutherans use the arrangement devised by St Augustine in the 5th Century where the first and second commandment are combined into one (which then becomes ‘I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me; thou shalt not make to thyself any graven thing to adore it’). The tenth commandment is then split into two (‘thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife’ and ‘thy shalt not covet <other stuff>’). Some say the Catholics wanted to de-emphasize the commandment about ‘graven images’ to divert attention from all the statues they have in Catholic churches.

Just a useless bit of trivia that’s stayed with me. But ask me to recite (any version of) all 10 Commandments tomorrow and I wouldn’t be able to do it.

Fascinating Fact 2: Most people will tell you Moses received the 10 Commandments on Mount Sinai. This is true for the Exodus account. But in the Deuteronomy account he receives them on Mount Horeb.

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As a white person myself, I don't feel 'left out' in that respect.

The crusades were plainly chaos
and those cristians were amost prototype models.... in fact present cristians are prototypes.

Cristianality is not perfection but the path to perfection.

and those communists were amost prototype models.... in fact present communists are prototypes.

Communistality is not perfection but the path to perfection.

Yes, I'm being mean.

I think the ten commandments provide an excellent "template" for living a moral existence. I mean who can really say that a person who follows those principles is a bad person...

BUT the thing that is lost on Christians nowadays is the cultural contexts and customs of the time and place when the Bible was written. For example, refer to the quote below:

In fact, the meaning of commandment number 5 is a reference to how when old people became senile, or sick, or generally difficult to care for, the common practice was to send them out into the desert to die.

"Honor" your father and mother, as in, care for them and don't just send them off to die in the dunes, and "your days will be long upon the land..." because if the custom is changed then it will not happen to you when you get old


The bible is littered with these misinterpretations, due to both cultural and language misunderstandings. Another example: all those people who believe that "The Beginning" of creation came at the outset of Genesis, and have traced the time frame back to pinpoint what they perceive as the exact year? Dudes, the simple word "THE", in its concrete context, did not exist in Hebrew at the time. The VERY FIRST WORDS of the Old Testament, "In the beginning", should be translated as "In A beginning"--not suggestive of the root of everything, just the root of the Biblical tale.

I won't read the Bible end to end, because I know full well that I could never understand it for what it is truly supposed to be. I'm not a Christian either, but I am an inquiring and open mind.

"Mean people"?

It was Voltaire how coined the word "Écrasez l'Infâme". Berhard Russel, Charles Darwin, George Orwell, Spinoza spoke out against religion. They are "mean people"? I would not dare to think so about Albertus Magnus - even I think he was fundamental wrong in everything.

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i agree communism it based on good princiables but inplemented badly.