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Post by clusium on Dec 7, 2023 13:30:07 GMT
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Post by Rodney Farber on Dec 8, 2023 1:05:24 GMT
George Carlin's perspective of the Ten Commandments
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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2023 0:10:37 GMT
That's an interesting perspective, but doesn't it encourage gentiles to disregard the Commandments due to the notion that they were written exclusively for Jews? I view the 10 Commandments more as consequences or results rather than rules. Jesus said the first and greatest commandment is to love God, and the second is to love your neighbor as you love yourself, because " on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." So it seems to me that if you follow those two, the rest will fall into place naturally. For example, you wouldn't want to kill those you love. Perhaps Peter Kreeft said it best when he said: "If you truly love God and his will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills." Or, for the Catholics... "Love God and then do what you will." -St. Augustine
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Dec 10, 2023 14:03:34 GMT
For example, you wouldn't want to kill those you love. Unless of course they were dying, had requested it, and were in pain. EG www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66257865 But then Christians have "we also glory in our sufferings " (Roman 5:3) So that's all right then. ... which might also justify the worst aspects of religious-inspired behaviour, especially if a supposed 'god's will' is inscrutable [Romans 11:33: "Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!" Qu'ran "No vision can grasp Him, but His Grasp is over all vision: He is above all comprehension ... (al-An’am:103) and yet the devoutly-challenged feel they know stuff anyway, at least enough to fly into buildings, blow people up or control women's health care. Then for Christians there is the fact that several times in scripture their god has, supposedly, deliberately hardened the will of men to help achieve his purpose. bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/God-Hardening-People so I guess we can take Kreeft's words with some irony...
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Post by The Lost One on Dec 11, 2023 16:48:31 GMT
I always preferred Jesus' variation on the Golden Rule to the Ten Commandments. It encourages us to do good as much as it forbids doing evil.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 31, 2023 0:03:47 GMT
Oy
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Post by jimmyboy on Jan 1, 2024 23:18:23 GMT
I have found people to be very flexible when it comes to obeying any rules. Situational morality.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Jan 2, 2024 18:26:11 GMT
I have found people to be very flexible when it comes to obeying any rules. Situational morality. A good example are the matters of divorce and abortion for the faithful. Christ condemned the former quite explicitly (Mat 5:31-32) but has nothing to say about abortion at all. Oddly, all the fuss is about the latter. (I don't include 'spontaneous abortions' which these days is the much less-preferred term for miscarriages).
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