10/5/2023 0 Comments Free thinking quotes![]() If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left out the commandment about keeping the Sabbath, and in its place would have said: 'Thou shalt not enslave thy fellow-men.' He would have omitted the one about swearing, and said: 'The man shall have but one wife, and the woman but one husband.' He would have left out the one about graven images, and in its stead would have said: 'Thou shalt not wage wars of extermination, and thou shalt not unsheathe the sword except in self-defence.' Such laws are as old as human society as old as the love of life as old as industry as the idea of prosperity as old as human love.Īll of the Ten Commandments that are good were old all that were new are foolish. Long before these commandments were given there were codes of laws in India and Egypt-laws against murder, perjury, larceny, adultery and fraud. “Some Christian lawyers-some eminent and stupid judges-have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law.
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