Lets look at the ten commandments.
Ten commandmentsFour of them are about not worshipping other deities or how to worship god.
No other gods, graven images, taking gods name in vain and obey the sabbath.
-Praying to saints and others flirts with breaking the first commandment.
-Graven images, walk into any christian church and what do you see? Because according to christian doctrine, jesus and god are one in the same.
-And the sabbath, well, that opens a whole bunch of issues.
Does this sound right?
Are jews and christians so likely to run off and flirt with foreign gods?
Is it a sign of a jealous and insecure god?
Or is it a means for people to maintain control over other people?
Praying to the virgin Mary, various saints, or anyone or anything other than god is breaking a commandment. That commandment is very specific and does not have any room for interpretation.
Graven images. Sistine Chapel with its famous painting that includes god breaks this commandment. As does every representation of Jesus, as previously explained. As does every picture, painting, statue (big or small), pendant anything with the likeness of Jesus is breaking a commandment.
The commandment about killing or murder is misunderstood at worst and misinterpreted at best. The original intent was for the Israelites. There is some degree of misunderstanding on this fact. And according to hebrew scholars, thou shall not kill (murder) is incomplete. It actually states a Jew shall not kill a fellow Jew. Believe it or not Islam has a very similar decree, but it too has been corrupted. It is not a blanket statement against the taking of a human life, in its original writing. According to the original intent, a Jew could kill a non-Jew with no fear of breaking the commandment. But as much in the bible it has been interpreted and adapted to suite the purposes of following generations.
The Sabbath. This is a tough one. Later interpretations of scripture has pardoned christians from the restrictions of the Sabbath in order to make the religion more palatable to converts. But it is still one of the commandments, it is there plain as day. And if this is "the word of god" as is so ardently claimed, can man undo that word? If you are logically consistent you cannot. But logic and consistency are not hallmarks of any religion. Over the past 2,000 years a whole library of excuses and reasons have been written to explain away inconsistencies in christianity. And the Sabbath is a big one.
The point is christians make a big deal out of the ten commandments, they want them everywhere. They believe they are the cornerstone of morality and goodness of this nation. They couldn't be more wrong. It is just like virtually everything else with christianity, it is how it is perceived rather than the actual substance that matters more. It is an illusion nothing more. If they were honest they would admit this, but that would cause the rest of the house of cards to crumble.
