Kentucky Upholds Ten Commandments

[webfusion]

If you want ten commandments you have to use the right ones otherwise it is heresy.

Absolutely -- and to be fair, the only illustrations of the 10 Commandments that should be permitted in these "historical" displays in public places such as courts and government buildings throughout the USA are the original Hebrew ones!

 

[Ed]

Absolutely -- and to be fair, the only illustrations of the 10 Commandments that should be permitted in these "historical" displays in public places such as courts and government buildings throughout the USA are the original Hebrew ones!

What does that say, exactly? Any Jews lurking about? I thought that it was a representation, not the actual words.

 

[Cleon]

What does that say, exactly? Any Jews lurking about? I thought that it was a representation, not the actual words.

They're two-word summaries of the commandments.

 

[Ed]

They're two-word summaries of the commandments.

Cleaon, they could be recipes for all I can make out. I need a jew. I need a translation.

 

[Ipecac]

They're two-word summaries of the commandments.

Hmm. Okay, I'll try it.

1. Only God.
2. No images.
3. Don't swear.
4. Remember Sabbath.
5. Honor parents.
6. Don't kill.
7. No adultery.
8. Don't steal.
9. Don't lie.
10. Don't covet.

Of course, this is the Protestant version. The Catholic version would be more difficult as 9 and 10 are both "don't covet".

 

[Cleon]

Cleaon, they could be recipes for all I can make out. I need a jew. I need a translation.

Well, I'm a Jew, but my Hebrew isn't very good (and some of the words I can't read very clearly). I do note that #2 says "Lo YHVH," which I assume is a summary of "No other gods before me," but translates as "No God."

 

[luchog]

I was hoping for this. The version they put up is the KJV. Catholics reject that version. You can tell from the second commandment where the KJV rambles on about "graven images", and nobody does graven images better than the papists.

Heretical nonsense. Eastern/Russian Orthodox icons are far superior imagery, with a richer, more complex symbolic language.

 

[Ed]

Heretical nonsense. Eastern/Russian Orthodox icons are far superior imagery, with a richer, more complex symbolic language.

Gaudy baubles, fit only for bordellos, rightly melted down for their precious metal content.

The crass work of heretical schismatics.