![]() ![]() I have highlighted the actual Commandments below. Note: apparently, God said some other stuff interspersed among the Commandments, a sort of legal commentary to stress the aspects He felt important. ![]() I found it online at the University of Michigan’s Digital Library, which matches other online versions I found. Why not go over the Commandments, said I to myself, and compare them to our actual laws, as well as the Constitution, the legal document framed by the Founding Fathers, and upon which our laws are actually based?įor those of you not familiar with the Bible – which includes many politicians most willing to thump it, it seems – what follows is the relevant passage from Exodus 20 in the King James Version †. People seem to accept that our laws are based on the morals of the Old Testament laid out in the Commandments, but as a proper skeptic, I decided to take a look myself. Specifically, they claim quite often that our laws are based on the Ten Commandments. That’s de rigeur for any election, but every cycle it seems to get worse.Ī lot of these claim that the United States is either a Christian nation- a ridiculous and easily-disprovable notion-or that it was founded on Judeo-Christian principles (the “Judeo” part is a giveaway that these politicians are Leviticans: they seem to keep their noses buried more in the fiery wrath of the Old Testament than in the actually gentle, politically-correct teachings of Jesus… more on this later, promise). As we ramp up to the mid-term elections in November 2010-sure to be just a warmup to the insanity that will be the presidential election in 2012-you can bet your bottom shekel that we’ll be hearing from a lot of “family values” politicians decrying our lack of morality.
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