Catholic Transparency...

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

No, I don't reject the Ten Commandments. They're a good set of laws.

Maybe you do not know that parts of the ten commandments as they are usually quoted today, are not complete, but hide some unwanted sentences.

May I quote German philosopher and speaker/director of the Giordano Bruno-foundation Michael Schmidt-Salomon, my own translation form the German:

The former German minister for social affairs and family, Ursula von der Leyen, announced in 2006 in front of running cameras, that "the first 19 articles of the German Basic Law (=German constitution) summarize the principles of the ten commandments." Who would have imagined that? It seems the minister has a very strange edition of the German constitution text. Because since when does the Basic Law legitimize religious compulsion and kin liability, slavery and the subordination of women under men - all that being content of the ten commandments? Or the other way around: since when do the ten commandments include "inviolable and inalienable human rights" (article 1), "the right to free development of his personality" (article 2), the equality of males and females before the law (article 3), " Freedom of faith and of conscience, and freedom to profess a religious or philosophical creed" (article 4), or the guaranteeing of free right for opinion, speech, media, arts and science (article 5) ? These rights are not only not included in the canon of the ten commandments, but they are even in direct and infusable opposition to the total general orientation of the Bible!

Some more on the variuous sets (!) of the ten commandments.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.htm