How many Americans recite those words and never, ever think about what they really mean and what we are called to do. I feel at times I am living in Babylon – with all the consequences of that society. People tend to forget that our God is a loving God, but he is also a just God.

I would add that the grand theft larceny is the added growth of the federal government and its entitlement programs that far outweighs the pork in the sliver of the non-discretionary portion of the budget.
The theme of this diary reminds me of the first of five conservative principles that Rep. McCotter listed on Fox.
“The right of liberty comes from God and not the government”

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has a huge amount to answer for already in terms of the 10 Commandments. Can’t think of a one that they haven’t broken yet, multiple times, as a matter of fact. “Thou shalt not lie” was the first one that popped up for me. Wow, have they worn THAT one out!

Thanks so much for writing this one.

My take would have been lies like a cheap toupee. Rugs lie pretty well most times, cheap toupees lie badly, as does Obama. And Janis, don’t forget “thou shalt not covet”, he’s pretty much broken that one every chance he’s had.

Spot on mailloux. Practically every failure of our society today can be traced to failure to live up to and/or deliberate violation of the 10 Commandments. More people need to know them and love them and to not just think of them as the title of a classic movie.

… that you are Catholic just by the way you number the Ten Commandments.

Not really a comment and it’s not saying either that I agree or disagree with your diary but I just find it interesting that Catholics and Protestants have different versions of the Ten Commandments.

Every 50th year, the Hebrews would forgive all debts and land would revert to its original owners. That might fix a few things, too.

I will take issue with this: “Americans are an extremely litigious culture. We love the drama of our court TV shows. As companies are sued left and right for the stupidest of reasons (e.g. the infamous suit against McDonald’s because the hot coffee was too hot), our prices rise, both from damages awarded and insurance against future suits. “

McDonald’s serves coffee to people driving cars. Serving it at 170-180 degrees is not a good idea. In this case, McDonald’s was found liable, not because the coffee was too hot, but because the driver was badly scalded when it spilled (a predictable result). IIRC, McD was only partially at fault; the driver was found partially responsible as well. The jury awarded punitive damages as the only way the McDonald’s Corporation would get the message. It seems that it worked.

I don’t dispute that Americans are overly litigious, I just think this oft-repeated story is a poor example. Check my posting history if you think I’m anti-corporate.

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land-owning people. It is a real problem in the modern world. I don’t mean the honor part, though that has been a problem as well, but rather the obligation part.

One of the imperatives of the New Deal was to get the agricultural poor off the land and into the factory or other workplace. That meant that there were no kids left to tend to Ma and Pa, hence Social Security. A lot of revolutionary history has been written by or because of bastard and second sons who didn’t receive or couldn’t make do off the inheritance. In the modern world, it was the rarest first born son who could live off the place so long as the parents were alive, if then. That certainly is the history of the demise of single family, subsistence agriculture; you just couldn’t live off it, so the kids left and got a job for wages.

As the society has become more fragmented and transient, the children are thousands of miles away from ageing parents and often have neither the wherewithal or physical ability to lend them any assistance. Unfortunately, they all too often don’t have the desire either. When the end is nigh, the over-riding question is, “how long before I can get out of here and get back to work?” Well, we built this World, didn’t we? There’s a reason why the states that are toying with “death with dignity” and other euphemisms for euthanasia are among the most prosperous and transient; nobody has time to deal with all that sickness and dying stuff.

Face it folks, those 10 Suggestions are awfully inconvenient in the modern world.

Prove that we are sinners in the need of redemption.

We have broken every one of the Ten Commandments. We have lied and disobeyed our parents. We stole from other people when we were little kids. We coveted something that belonged to others. We worshiped other gods like NCAA teams or going to football games on Sunday instead of worshiping God. We have killed, if not physically but in our mind.

We broke every Commandment. We are left with no other defense of our sins, but to acknowledge that we need to be saved.

That’s what Jesus Christ is for. He died on the Cross for our sins and rose on the third day, defeating the power of death. His death was a propitiation for the sins of whole world, that we may have grace of God to escape from the everlasting Hell. No religion can save anyone from being cast into Hell.

We should ask Jesus into our hearts to save us by asking Him for His forgiveness of our sins. The Ten Commandments for Jews were meant to demonstrate a very important truth: sacrificing lambs doesn’t save you, but believing that one day God would sent a Savior (the Messiah) to save us was what delivered Jews and converted Gentiles out of everlasting punishment.

In short, Ten Commandments prove that we have NO excuse before God, period. That’s the whole point of having the Ten Commandments.