What if everyone lived by the 10 commandments, whether they believed in God or not? What would the world look like today? Can anyone explain what exactly it is that many in the left find offensive about them?
Well ok, let's list them and analyze them one by one:
The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)
1 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6 “You shall not murder.
7 “You shall not commit adultery.
8 “You shall not steal.
9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”
1) So God is talking to just the Hebrews or in percent of population, something like 30 million Jews worldwide. That is 0.004% of the population. You take someone seriously that is interested in 0.004% of the population? That is waaaay worse than "we are the 99%"
2) God cares if I carve toys and pretend they are some sort of other God? Seriously? But hey, carve all the crosses and jewish stars you want!
3) I say Goddammit when I am pissed sometimes. No can do.
4) Hmmm, well, I don't know. What about the 90% of the world's population that live on a dollar a day? If they could work Sundays it might be the difference between eating and not. Let me see, God on one hand, eating on the other. God loses.
5) Well, I have nothing to say about this one. But the best way to hide a lie is between truths that everyone already follows anyway.
6) Seems like a good idea. But sheesh, religion and God have been responsible for a huge number of wars throughout history. I wonder if God really existed if he didn't wonder if maybe he should not have appeared to the farmers at all 2000 years ago. It would possibly have been less bloody.
7) Hmmm, the movement is for people to have multiple partners, with marriage soon becoming a thing of the past. Human beings are promiscuous. I am not saying it is a good or bad idea, just that it goes against biology. In fact, there is evidence that we are the descendant of one really horny guy, and if it were not for this guy we might not exist. In principle no objection. Not sure it works with modern human beings with access to "the pill" or human beings from that area. Be fruitful and multiply is probably biologically more sound principle.
8) Again, seems like a good idea in principle. In practice, I can think of lots of reasons that stealing could be the lesser of two evils.
9) Finally, one that I can't find even the slightest flaw in. This one is ROCK SOLID.
10 )Hmm, we constantly buy and sell homes in this country anyway. Back in biblical times people probably lived in the same hut forever. So, irrelevant. Covet someone else's wife? Well, there are tons of women in the world, see no reason why you should fixate on a married one. Seems reasonable. Male/Female servanst? So God condoned slavery? You are losing me. Most of my neighbors don't have ox or donkey. Maybe he means my neighbor's Lamborghini?