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In reply to the discussion: Today's Republicans do in fact have Christian values [View all]Stardust Mirror
(685 posts)your precious Ten Commandments:
#1 Obey authority (I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.)
#2 Obey authority (You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.)
#3 Obey authority (You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.)
#4 Obey authority (Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.)
#5 Obey authority (Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.)
50% of the Commandments, the first ones listed, and commands to obey authority.
Don't steal, lie, kill, golly, I guess no other civilization prior to the Abrahamic every figured out that it is in their interests not to kill, steal or lie.
Or the Golden Rule? Five centuries before Christ, Confucius set forth his own Golden Rule: "Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself.".
So, to repeat, Christian values as expressly laid out in the Bible: authoritarianism, genocide, rape, pillage, slavery, women as property.