Our legal system has its roots in the pagan Anglo-Saxon common law...not the bible.
-----Original Message----- From: zaphod [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:35 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Dr. Ben Carson's National Prayer Breakfast Speech really? Let's see 1. You shall have no other gods before me. --- nope, no laws about that 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image --- wow, hope there's not any laws against that..Catholics would all be in prison 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy god in vain --- goddamn right! 4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy --- you heard it right -- get your ass to church or be arrested. 5. Honour thy father and thy mother -- Emancipation, screw that, it doesn't exist 6. Thou shalt not kill --- DING DING DING -- only six in before we get to a real law.err wait, we have exceptions. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. -- again, not many adulterers in jail let alone being stoned. 8. Thou shalt not steal -- DING DING DING -- we got another! 9. Thou shalt not near false witness against thy neighbor --- Hmmmm we might be able to say this fits some law somewhere 10. Thou shalt not covet. --- This is the whole basis of the American economy. I don't think they'd ever make this illegal So, out of 10, we've got 2 definitely and 1 possible. Let's face it, the bible isn't the first place that came up with the idea of 'you shouldn't kill' and 'you shouldn't steal' On Feb 12, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "The bible is not relevant to the workings of today society. Trying > to apply lessons from it is usually fruitless, on top of the notion > that you can find support for any position you want to defend in the bible." > > Everyone whose paying attention knows this can't be true. > > The Ten Commandments are the bases for a lot of legal system in the world. > > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the > tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360918 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
