Wednesday, August 17, 2011

It's actually fairly easy


In the day, Dr. Laura caught a lot of heat for comments made on her show. I happened to listen to her show one day and she asked the audience to consider how great the world would be if we all lived by the Ten Commandments and were assured that everyone else did as well.

Dennis Prager with a similar opinion here (thanks reader Tim). ............
There is only one solution to the world's problems, only one prescription for producing a near-heaven on earth.

It is 3,000 years old.

And it is known as the Ten Commandments.

Properly understood and applied, the Ten Commandments are really all humanity needs to make a beautiful world. While modern men and women, in their hubris, believe that they can and must come up with new ideas in order to make a good world, the truth is there is almost nothing new to say.

If people and countries lived by the Ten Commandments, all the great moral problems would disappear.

Or, to put it another way, all the great evils involve the violation of one or more of the Ten Commandments.

Here is the case in brief for the Ten Commandments (using the Jewish enumeration, which differs slightly from the Protestant and Catholic):

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