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| | #Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. | | #Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. |
| | #Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. | | #Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. |
| − | #Thou shalt not murder. <ref>(The Hebrew term, ''ratsach'', can mean to kill, slay or to murder)</ref> | + | #Thou shalt not murder.<ref>(The Hebrew term, ''ratsach'', can mean to kill, slay or to murder)</ref> |
| | #Thou shalt not commit [[adultery]]. | | #Thou shalt not commit [[adultery]]. |
| | #Thou shalt not steal. | | #Thou shalt not steal. |
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| | ==Controversies about displaying the Ten Commandments== | | ==Controversies about displaying the Ten Commandments== |
| − | In recent years, [[liberal]] attorneys and judges have opposed the display of the Ten Commandments on public property by exploiting the judicial system. Obama appointment, Judge Michael F. Urbanski, put forward the ridiculous idea of censoring the Ten Commandments by removing the first four to render them more secular<ref>http://www.theblaze.com/stories/judge-suggests-stripping-10-commandments-down-to-6-to-remove-religious-elements-in-aclu-led-lawsuit/</ref><ref>http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/308501</ref> . The [[ACLU]], [[Freedom From Religion Foundation]], and other liberal organizations regularly file lawsuits in an attempt to censor the display of the Ten Commandments. | + | In recent years, [[liberal]] attorneys and judges have opposed the display of the Ten Commandments on public property by exploiting the judicial system. Obama appointment, Judge Michael F. Urbanski, put forward the ridiculous idea of censoring the Ten Commandments by removing the first four to render them more secular.<ref>http://www.theblaze.com/stories/judge-suggests-stripping-10-commandments-down-to-6-to-remove-religious-elements-in-aclu-led-lawsuit/</ref><ref>http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/308501</ref> The [[ACLU]], [[Freedom From Religion Foundation]], and other liberal organizations regularly file lawsuits in an attempt to censor the display of the Ten Commandments. |
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| | In 2003, [[Alabama]] Supreme Court chief justice [[Roy Moore]] was removed from office after refusing a court order to remove a statue of the Ten Commandments from the central rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court Building.<ref>http://www.al.com/specialreport/?111303moore.html</ref> | | In 2003, [[Alabama]] Supreme Court chief justice [[Roy Moore]] was removed from office after refusing a court order to remove a statue of the Ten Commandments from the central rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court Building.<ref>http://www.al.com/specialreport/?111303moore.html</ref> |
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| | As publicity for the film, and in conjunction with a project of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Paramount helped finance the placement of hundreds of stone tablets engraved with the Ten Commandments. These were placed at courthouse squares, at city halls and in public parks, and became a controversy, particularly in recent years, as to whether they violate the separation of Church and State.<ref>''Ten Commandments Monoliths'', from the [March 2002 issue of ''Eagle Magazine'' http://www.foe.com/tencommandments/mar_2002_ten_commandments.html]</ref> | | As publicity for the film, and in conjunction with a project of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Paramount helped finance the placement of hundreds of stone tablets engraved with the Ten Commandments. These were placed at courthouse squares, at city halls and in public parks, and became a controversy, particularly in recent years, as to whether they violate the separation of Church and State.<ref>''Ten Commandments Monoliths'', from the [March 2002 issue of ''Eagle Magazine'' http://www.foe.com/tencommandments/mar_2002_ten_commandments.html]</ref> |
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| − | ==See Also== | + | ==See also== |
| | * [[Essay: Christians and the Law of Moses]] | | * [[Essay: Christians and the Law of Moses]] |
| | * [[Judaism]] | | * [[Judaism]] |
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| | ** [[Professor values]] | | ** [[Professor values]] |
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| − | ==References== | + | ==References== |
| | {{reflist|2}} | | {{reflist|2}} |
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