Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment – ‘Thou shalt not covet’ – recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we […]
Commandments Quotes
And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in […]
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments.
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few […]
The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion.
“Thou shalt not get found out” is not one of God’s commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
The reason that the Ten Commandments are short and clear is that they were handed down direct, and not through several committees.
Decalogue, n. A series of commandments, ten in number – just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.
Here is my problem with the ten commandments – why exactly are there 10? You simply do not need ten. The list of ten commandments was artificially and deliberately inflated to get it up to ten. Here’s what happened: About 5,000 years ago a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to try to […]
Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it, religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man… living in the sky… who watches every thing you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten special things that he does not want you to […]
