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Conservatives and the 10 Commandments

sheratan 2012/02/26 07:47:28
Related Topics: Abortion, Gay, Sin, Greed
Both the 10 Commandments and the Seven Deadly Sins have no mention of being gay or having abortions. Greed, though, seems to be a biggie.

Why do conservatives seem to get that backwards?
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  • Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/02/26 12:38:14
    Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆
    +15
    The Sixth Commandment reads: "Do not commit murder."

    Abortion is murder. See Psalm 139:13-16. Now if God knew someone during gestation, how could abortion not be murder?

    And too many people's idea of "greed" seems to be "making money." As in, "Any grifter can make money." That's not making money; it's stealing it.

    Then again, too many people believe that wealth is fixed, and therefore if one man accumulates it, he must have stolen it from someone else. That's not how it works.

    Now the word "greed" might have a legitimate meaning: acting on envy. And that *is* a Ten Commandments no-no. "Do not covet what belongs to someone else." And that is what progressives (or liberals, or whatever they call themselves) do all the time.

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  • TJ 2012/03/23 09:41:48
    TJ
    conservatives are not greedy. In fact they give more to charity than liberals. Thou shalt not kill is why they are against abortion.
  • sheratan TJ 2012/03/23 13:01:39
    sheratan
    +1
    "Thou shalt not kill is why they are against abortion."

    Then why are most conservatives pro-war?

    And why do so many of them strongly favour ending a human life by capital punishment?
  • holly go lightly 2012/02/29 02:44:27
    holly go lightly
    The seven deadly sins are not biblical.One mans sloth is another mans rest,etc.
  • Liberty 2012/02/28 07:21:16
    Liberty
    Cause it works out in their favor... They don't see themselves... they are too busy judging others and have an excuse for everything they do.... just like the rest of us.
  • Zippcodey 2012/02/27 19:41:04
    Zippcodey
    YAHWEH'S TEN COMMANDMENTS:

    1. I am Yahweh your Almighty, Who has brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other deities before Me.

    2. You shall not make yourself a graven 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; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I Yahweh your Almighty am a jealous Almighty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands of them that love Me and keep My commandments.

    3. You shall not make wrong use of the Name of Yahweh your Almighty; Yahweh will not leave unpunished the man who misuses His Name.

    4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it set apart. Six days shall you labor, and do all your work: but the seventh day is a Sabbath of Yahweh your Almighty; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the stranger that is within your gates; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore, Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart. (Sunday is the 1st day of the we...











    YAHWEH'S TEN COMMANDMENTS:

    1. I am Yahweh your Almighty, Who has brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other deities before Me.

    2. You shall not make yourself a graven 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; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I Yahweh your Almighty am a jealous Almighty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands of them that love Me and keep My commandments.

    3. You shall not make wrong use of the Name of Yahweh your Almighty; Yahweh will not leave unpunished the man who misuses His Name.

    4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it set apart. Six days shall you labor, and do all your work: but the seventh day is a Sabbath of Yahweh your Almighty; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the stranger that is within your gates; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore, Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart. (Sunday is the 1st day of the week not the 7th day)

    5. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that Yahweh your Almighty gives you.

    6. You shall not commit murder.

    7. You shall not commit adultery.

    8. You shall not steal.

    9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

    10. You shall not covet your neighbors house, you shall not covet your neighbors wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.
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  • Zippcodey 2012/02/27 19:35:13
    Zippcodey
    No but the rest of the scripture teach about them, seems you lack knowledge of what scriptures really teach.
  • Bocephus 2012/02/27 17:30:55
    Bocephus
    10 Commandments all day

    The United States of America is the only country in history to have defined itself as Judeo-Christian.

    America is also unique in that it has always combined secular government with a society based on religious values.

    But what does "Judeo-Christian" mean? We need to know. Along with the belief in liberty — as opposed to, for example, the European belief in equality, the Muslim belief in theocracy, and the Eastern belief in social conformity — Judeo-Christian values are what distinguish America from all other countries. That is why American coins feature these two messages: "In G-d we trust" and "Liberty." 10  commantments
  • Zippcodey Bocephus 2012/02/27 19:54:35
    Zippcodey
    84% of American abortion patients identify themselves as Christians. Christians not only fill the sidewalks in front of abortion clinics as protesters, but the patient beds in abortion clinics as well. 37 million babies have been put to death in the United States alone.

    The number of abortions provide by Planned Parenthood has increased from 305,310 in 2007 to 324,008 in 2008 while adoption referrals are down to 2,405 in 2008 from 4,912 in 2007. Their factsheet also reveals that the number of prenatal clients dropped from 10,914 in 2007 to 9,433 in 2008.

    Clinton Stands By Her Praise of Eugenicist Margaret Sanger

    Apr 15, 2009 • By KEVIN VANCE

    After the founder of the American Birth Control League, which changed its name to Planned Parenthood in the 1940s. Last month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accepted Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger Award, named after the founder of the American Birth Control League, which changed its name to Planned Parenthood in the 1940s.

    Mrs. Sanger, of course, wasn't the benevolent advocate for human rights that Clinton's remarks make her out to be. In fact, Sanger's "vision" for birth control seems to be united to a eugenic vision. In the October 1921 issue of The Birth Control Review, Sanger wrote that "the campaign for Birth Control is n...











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    84% of American abortion patients identify themselves as Christians. Christians not only fill the sidewalks in front of abortion clinics as protesters, but the patient beds in abortion clinics as well. 37 million babies have been put to death in the United States alone.

    The number of abortions provide by Planned Parenthood has increased from 305,310 in 2007 to 324,008 in 2008 while adoption referrals are down to 2,405 in 2008 from 4,912 in 2007. Their factsheet also reveals that the number of prenatal clients dropped from 10,914 in 2007 to 9,433 in 2008.

    Clinton Stands By Her Praise of Eugenicist Margaret Sanger

    Apr 15, 2009 • By KEVIN VANCE

    After the founder of the American Birth Control League, which changed its name to Planned Parenthood in the 1940s. Last month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accepted Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger Award, named after the founder of the American Birth Control League, which changed its name to Planned Parenthood in the 1940s.

    Mrs. Sanger, of course, wasn't the benevolent advocate for human rights that Clinton's remarks make her out to be. In fact, Sanger's "vision" for birth control seems to be united to a eugenic vision. In the October 1921 issue of The Birth Control Review, Sanger wrote that "the campaign for Birth Control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical in ideal with the final aim of Eugenics."

    Hillary Clinton is behind having parental rights taken away from parents, another U.N. agenda of Rome.

    In other words, 96.3% of Planned Parenthood’s services to women in 2008 were abortions, and the other 3.7% were adoptions and prenatal care. In 2008 and 2009, Planned Parenthood performed more than 650,000 abortions! We are sacrificing our children to Maloch!
    Number of blacks killed by lynching in the U.S. between 1864 and 1968:
    4,946 (47.7 per year).
    Number of black babies killed by abortion between 1973 and 2010:
    17,237,000 (currently 574,000 per year)
    Ratio of black babies killed by abortion to blacks killed by lynching:
    3,485 to 1.

    Planned Parenthood is a liberal organization that was conceived with one purpose: To eradicate the black population in America. "Planned Parenthood's legacy of racism & eugenics is firmly established through its founder Margaret Sanger." blackgenocide.org/sanger.html

    Per the NY Daily News, 2/23/2011, federal statistics show blacks make up about 13% of the American population, and account for 36.4% of U.S. abortions. "...our future is in jeopardy as a genocidal plot is carried out through abortion," said the Rev. Stephen Broden, an official with the anti-abortion group Life Always.

    Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards complained that cutting off the $350million a year which PP receives from U.S. Taxpayers would harm women who are coming to Planned Parenthood for “access to basic health care such as mammograms…” But a young woman called PP of Georgetown, and they said: “We do not provide mammograms… We’re mostly a surgical facility.”

    Abbey Johnson, who used to work for Planned Parenthood, has a new book, Unplanned. She writes: “As a Planned Parenthood clinic manager, I was directed to double the number of abortions our clinic performed in order to drive up revenue. In keeping with that goal, Planned Parenthood headquarters recently issued a directive mandating that all of its affiliates provide abortions by 2013.”

    Think about just how many Christians that work for Planned Parenthood.

    17% of abortions were done with abortion pills in 2010.

    Besides abortion, they use other means to control population growth, which are birth control pills, homosexuality, which is also a form of birth control, sterilization in many forms, Contraception include barrier methods, such as condoms or diaphragm, hormonal contraception, contraceptives.

    If all these babies are not wanted, why become an animal to get rid of them, why would they get pregnant in the first place, have people been dummied down so far, that they can't learn it's by having sex that you get pregnant and their are responsibilities that go along with doing that?

    Drugs play a big part on this, we have been fighting a drug war for 40 years, and all it is to this government is a big money maker, plus it helps again to tear down morality of a country.

    YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE THE ANTIDOTE TO ABORTION... Yep, you have the right to choose to keep your legs shut or not... With that choice, you have already chosen whatever comes of it (cause and effect), even if that means sharing your body with your child.

    What Scriptures Teach

    Proverbs 6:16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

    6:17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

    This country is over 70% Christian, and besides Abortion, they have legalized, Drinking, Gambling, Homosexual Marriage in some states, Homosexual Adoptions, they are trying now to legalize Dope and Prostitution.
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  • Bocephus Zippcodey 2012/02/27 19:58:14
    Bocephus
    Your point???
  • Zippcodey Bocephus 2012/02/27 20:21:20
    Zippcodey
    +1
    That Christianity is a lie.
  • Bocephus Zippcodey 2012/02/27 20:30:34
    Bocephus
    Wow. Haven't heard that before. You guys need some new material.

    And you get all this from a study.
  • Zippcodey Bocephus 2012/02/27 22:00:22
    Zippcodey
    LOL, if you only knew how deep it really gets.
  • ETpro 2012/02/27 16:37:39
    ETpro
    Thou shalt not kill, until after they are born. Then all bets are off. Cheer for more wars. Cheer for the Governor who executes the most people possible.
  • Giantfighter 2012/02/27 10:47:31
    Giantfighter
    We all have choices & non of us are without sin, we were not created to be the same, but it's not up to us to judge...I accept & respect everyone's opinion, no matter how varied or different as long as it doesn't effect me or my loved ones personally or cause harm. I also believe in everyone should given equal rights & honored for their humanity, achievements,
    wisdom, kindness & consideration. I know there are many fools in the world & there is nothing we can do about it, except encourage & educate. I happen to agree with the quote of an ancient Greek philospher named Plato that says, “Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” I also believe that we should be more concerned about how we live of lives with the 10 Commandments rather than how others should, because the end result will be our own.
  • middlesex1957 2012/02/27 07:15:06
    middlesex1957
    +2
    Conservatives get a lot of things backwards. Some things they just get dead wrong. Perhaps the one most diametrically opposite of Jesus' teachings is their relationship to money. Jesus admonishes the rich that they own NOTHING and deserve none of their money and have it only because God allows it and that God holds them accountable for every penney because God claims to own it all. Jesus tells 3 parables about the way God expects those with money to use it and it always ends up with them using it to help others. Conservatives teach that the rich are entitled to their wealth no matter how/where they got it and no matter how greedy they are with it. Imagine Jesus telling the 1% to give the government's money to the government and to give themselves to God the way he told that to the Pharasees. He also told people that the sick and disabled are not being punished by God and shouldn't be punished by people either. Remember that parable about the Holy men who crossed the road to avoid dealing with the man who'd been beaten by robbers? The hero of the story was a church reject, a Samaratan who not only rescued him but paid for his medical care. Imagine trying to reconcile that with the Conservatives who when asked if a poor man should be allowed to die if he can't pay CHEERED FOR THE MAN'S DEATH! Conservatives as Christians? I don't see how.
  • middlesex1957 2012/02/27 07:01:15
    middlesex1957
    +1
    I'm a medical laboratory technologist. Here are some facts about how the creator made our species that may give you an idea of how the creator views the unborn. First, life does NOT begin at gestation. It begins much sooner than that. Every egg and sperm are alive as long as they reside inside our bodies. Once ejected they die. Millions of sperm and hundreds of eggs live out their lives and die never having been fertilized. That is their life. Very, rarely one of them meets another and begins to grow into a multicelled being. 90%, NINETY PERCENT of them will never live past the 1st month. That is all there is to their life. Of the remaining 10% many of them will not survive the first 3 months of gestation and will be miscarried. This is why people don't announce they are going to have a baby until after the first trimester. In medicine we have a counting system for how many times a woman has been gravid, versus how many times she's been pregnant, vs how many times she's given live birth. At any time during pregnancy an embryo, fetus or neonate can die for more reasons than you can imagine. For many life in the womb is as far as we ever get. Right up until the point where the umbilical cord is cut and the newborn breathes on it's own it can die because it is entirely depend...&
    I'm a medical laboratory technologist. Here are some facts about how the creator made our species that may give you an idea of how the creator views the unborn. First, life does NOT begin at gestation. It begins much sooner than that. Every egg and sperm are alive as long as they reside inside our bodies. Once ejected they die. Millions of sperm and hundreds of eggs live out their lives and die never having been fertilized. That is their life. Very, rarely one of them meets another and begins to grow into a multicelled being. 90%, NINETY PERCENT of them will never live past the 1st month. That is all there is to their life. Of the remaining 10% many of them will not survive the first 3 months of gestation and will be miscarried. This is why people don't announce they are going to have a baby until after the first trimester. In medicine we have a counting system for how many times a woman has been gravid, versus how many times she's been pregnant, vs how many times she's given live birth. At any time during pregnancy an embryo, fetus or neonate can die for more reasons than you can imagine. For many life in the womb is as far as we ever get. Right up until the point where the umbilical cord is cut and the newborn breathes on it's own it can die because it is entirely dependent on the mother's body. As she goes so does it. It is still just a part of her body until it is not. At that point it is still not out of the woods. The first few months of life are precarious. Oops - I said, "the first few months of life". That's what we say when we mean "independent life". It was alive before birth wasn't it? Yes. But we don't start counting life until after successful, live birth because we decided long ago to start counting day one from that point. We did that because starting before that point was too risky, and too heartbreaking. We choose when to consider life viable enough to give rights and protections as an individual of our society. It doesn't come from God who loves eggs, sperm, & zygotes but doesn't guarantee they'll live any longer than a few days or weeks. It doesn't come from ancient people who somehow knew better than us. It comes from us and the decision is random. God doesn't care if we're never born. God didn't create a system where every egg and sperm get a chance to be born as a human being and until you can cut that umbilical cord and have that baby live on it's own it doesn't have it's own life yet. God loves them all, welcomes them after death no matter if they lived a minute or a 100 years, as one cell or a whole human. Not all make it. Very, very few make it and our creator has never seen any reason to change that. Use your best disgresion, make your best choice. But do NOT turn a fetus into an idol. Take care of the children who have already been born and let God worry about the ones who never will be for whatever reason.
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  • Tedster 2012/02/27 06:58:14 (edited)
    Tedster
    +2
    Too bad these aren't the Republican 10 Commandments.

    #1 As a Republican I shall not think or reason.
    #2 I will not be optimistic but rather display my fear-based, Chicken Little ideology at every turn.
    #3 I will deny higher learning merely bacause I don't understand the concept.
    #4 I will deny all science based knowledge including gravity and photosynthesis.
    #5 I will rail against universities because I couldn't get into one myself.
    #6 I will fear anything I can't control including Evolution and Climate Change.
    #7 I will try to control the lives of others that I disagree in any way with but also claim to believe in small government.
    #8 I will try to understand logic even though it has always escaped me.
    #9 I will call people who don't agree with me, "Communists and Socialists" because it sounds so inflammatory and I love those big "werds".
    #10 I will raise my standards of truth to include ignoring or vetting all of those whackjob, rt wing nut, OMG, look what Obama's done now!" emails.
  • Dave 2012/02/27 05:09:38
    Dave
    +1
    The simple truth is Religion is dead with the Republicons or Right Wingnuts because they worship at the alter of Television before any of their god-beings. They believe what the Television god tells them rather than the Lordy Jesus.
  • spidermonkey™POTL~PWCM~JLA☮... 2012/02/27 03:31:39 (edited)
    spidermonkey™POTL~PWCM~JLA☮Paul


    You have to be married to commit adultery and the bible does not recognize same sex marriage.... therefore homosexuals do not commit adultery......


    1 Corinthians 7 (KJV)
    2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
  • sjalan 2012/02/27 01:35:01
    sjalan
    +1
    BECAUSE Christo-Conservocons are still knuckle draggers like the Neanderthal. The Neanderthals are extinct as are soon to be the Christo-Conservocons.
  • Beccy 2012/02/26 22:32:00
    Beccy
    I think they pay more attention to the readings of Paul then Jesus.
  • BeingMe<3 2012/02/26 22:23:43
    BeingMe<3
    ummmm ok
  • **StarzAbove** 2012/02/26 18:19:29
    **StarzAbove**
    +1
    We aren't supposed to judge, but they are always judging those that don't agree with them. And pride goeth before a fall.
  • Muskoka 2012/02/26 18:10:48
    Muskoka
    Why do idiots and moron always blame the other political parties?
  • Fran-Halen 2012/02/26 17:35:34
    Fran-Halen
    Now that you bring it up....there may be a rewriting of the "Neo-con 10 commandments".
  • Tinka123 2012/02/26 16:46:09
    Tinka123
    +3
    Just goes to show, no matter how simple you make it - silly humans have to go and complicate things. Very simple and from his own mouth...

    "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
    --Mat 22:36 - 40

    Now - what Christian wants to question that?
  • weenyboy 2012/02/26 16:08:33
    weenyboy
    +5
    Conservatives are true HYPOCRITES! These sanctimonious cretins who oppse abortion, gay rights and even contraception these days are the FIRST ones to line up to INVADE, maim and kill innocent folks who just happen to have an abundance of OIL! Sure, KILL thousands in Iraq, thousands more in Lithium-Rich Afghanistan and now start banging the WAR drums to BOMB and INVADE Iran who like Iraq have done NOTHING to the USA but are OIL wealthy! Apparently the 10 Commandments mean NOTHING to these hypocrites, especially the 6th!
  • Steve J~PWCM~JLA 2012/02/26 16:01:23
    Steve J~PWCM~JLA
    +2
    Well, since greed has nothing to do with bettering ones self. That fallacy can be put away.

    Abortions, is killing a living entity in the eyes of God. So that puts that fallacy away.

    Gay? What is you definition?
  • santana... Steve J... 2012/02/26 16:22:15
    santanasmooth
    What about war, Thow shall not kill?
  • Steve J... santana... 2012/02/26 16:50:41
    Steve J~PWCM~JLA
    +2
    Libya? Or how about the four African States were have recently sent troops to? Are you saying it is OK from "Liberal" to liberally go to war? Wasn't it a "Liberal" that declared war on Hitler and Japan?

    OK, I get it. Rules don't apply to Liberals. Didn't Johnson declare War on the Vietnamese?

    Go figure!!!!!
  • santana... Steve J... 2012/02/26 16:53:19
    santanasmooth
    So you are aying it is ok for you to do it but not for a liberal. ?
  • Steve J... santana... 2012/02/26 17:05:53
    Steve J~PWCM~JLA
    No, that is what you are saying. I'm just correcting you that most Wars in our history were started by Liberals.
  • santana... Steve J... 2012/02/26 17:16:35
    santanasmooth
    Started by? now that is a stretch
  • Steve J... santana... 2012/02/26 17:35:51
    Steve J~PWCM~JLA
    Look it up.
  • santana... Steve J... 2012/02/26 19:27:19
    santanasmooth
    I have thanks
  • 2468 2012/02/26 15:00:21
    2468
    +2
    It does not suit their agenda.
    They match the facts to suit their agenda....even if the facts have to suffer in the process.
  • BUCCANEER~POTL~PWCM~JLA 2012/02/26 14:35:53
  • bman~AVA BUCCANE... 2012/02/26 15:10:30
    bman~AVA
    +3
    Great comment my friend. I agree!
  • BUCCANE... bman~AVA 2012/02/26 15:12:44
    BUCCANEER~POTL~PWCM~JLA
    +3
    Thanks ships,I would be proud to have thought it up!
  • bman~AVA BUCCANE... 2012/02/26 15:24:38
    bman~AVA
    +3
    I hear that all right! And you are very welcome my friend

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