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jmowreader

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7. Apparently people are supposed to see these posters and instantly become Christians
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 06:37 PM
Jun 2024

The Ten Commandments, analyzed as they appear on a Ten Commandments monument:

1. You will have no other gods before me.
Written in an era when Christianity was just getting started, this told its new practitioners - who weren't necessarily voluntary converts to this new faith - to stop practicing their old religion.

2. You will not make any graven images.
Apparently this is supposed to be "you will not make pictures of God." Since a LOT of Christians have pictures of Jesus in their homes, give their kids picture books with drawings of Jesus in them and so on and so forth this is one that not even Christians follow.

3. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
The Jewish faith does this A LOT - when the Sabbath hits they basically close down. Christians, not so much.

The next few ones are the basis of any polite society.
4. Honor your mother and father.
5. Don't kill anyone.
6. Don't commit adultery.
7. Don't steal.
8. Don't lie.
9. Don't covet your neighbor's house.
10. Don't covet your neighbor's family or his possessions.

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