But
Commandment number ten focuses, without any reinterpretation, on the internal level.
Not exact matches
But MacIntyre's observation also shows why, for non-emotivists, such surveys must always issue in a complete non sequitur: one does not abrogate the
Ten Commandments by pointing to the
number of murders in Detroit, or the divorce rate in Reno, or the decline in church attendance in Peoria.
I am amazed at the
number of people who had yard signs stting theat they stood for the
Ten Commandments, yet try to forget the one that says «Remember...»!
They are hypocrites because they ignore the more important Golden Rule and you NEVER hear Christians trashing their own for the much, much bigger
number of Christians who commit the
Ten Commandment sin of adultery by divorcing and remarrying.
There was not even agreement on the
number ten or on which
commandments constituted the
ten, to say nothing of lack of consensus on the content itself.
The first
Commandment is divided in order to make two and arrive at the sacred
number ten.
The
Ten Commandments: 1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW 6: Thou shalt not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) 7: Thou shalt not commit adultery — huge
number of Christians commit adultery by LEGALLY remarrying 8: Thou shalt not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 9: Thou shalt not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW
And by «moral earnestness» I do not mean the sort of moralism which centers itself in obedience to codes or laws or sets of
commandments, whether they be
ten or of any other
number.
After the customary «Bless me Father, for I have sinned», the programme instructs the user to tap in the
number of days since last confession, the
number of venial versus mortal sins (selected from a list of the seven deadly sins and the
ten commandments) and then further details of each sin.
Unsurprisingly, Watson told the animal rights magazine SATYA that his «
ten commandments» include
Number One: «Don't bring any more humans into being.
The extremely ornate theater was host to a
number of Hollywood premieres, from Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 silent classic «The
Ten Commandments» to Barbara Streisand's «Funny Girl» in 1968.