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If you want to flaunt your religion, I don't have a problem with exhibiting the Commandments, especially since most are good secular-oriented rules.

I do love the wording of the 6th Commandment, with the accurate-to-original-scripture word "murder" replacing the incorrect traditional English word "kill,"

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The Ten Commandments

1And God spoke all these words, saying,2“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.3“You shall have no other gods before* me.4“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.5You shall not bow down to them or 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 the fourth generation of those who hate me,6but showing steadfast love to thousands* of those who love me and keep my commandments.7“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.8“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.9Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.13“You shall not murder.*14“You shall not commit adultery.15“You shall not steal.16“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

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1 hour ago, Wilbur said:

What happened to coveting thy neighbours wife?  What is this "false testimony" crap? 

Note that the Samaritans claimed there were only 9 commandments: there was no reason over 2500 years ago to differentiate between a "neighbor's goods" and a "neighbor's wife" since a wife was part of a man's goods.  The Judans who went into exile during the Babylonian Captivity with 9 commandments and then returned after the Persians liberated them with 10 commandments must have been very advanced for their time in their social thinking!

When the leading Judans (from the destroyed kingdom of Judah) where moved to Babylon by conqueror Nebuchadnezzar, left behind were Judans and the remnants of the original state of Israel who became known as the "Samaritans" - the original capital of Israel was Samaria.  By the time the Jews were returned by the Persian Empire, which rebuilt Jerusalem and paid for the 2nd Temple (as a buffer state between them and Egypt), the Judan religion was the basis of the modern Jewish religion and had diverged from the indigenous Samaritans - who became despised by the Jews who saw them as heretics, which was the reason Jesus of Nazareth used a "Good Samaritan" in his parable as an example that someone who doesn't belong to your group can be a better person and "true friend" to you than some inside your group.

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