Thinking
about religion, I revisited ten commandments. Reading them over, I did
not learn anything more than what I learned watching that epic movie Ten
Commandments in the matinee show in late fifties. Here is my simplistic
thought process then and now:
If you read the last six commandments and think through you would wonder, did Moses really need to go up in the mountain to hear this from God himself? Why people in those days were not able to figure out for themselves these simple rules of living a moral life? Or is it, they needed to have fear of God instill in them to follow these simple rules? Any human beings with average intelligence and good conscious would follow these rules to be a good person and thus a religious person.
Now if you read the first three commandments it becomes apparent that like any other autocratic ruler God wanted to have full control over his subjects. He did not want you to accept the authority of any other king. He did not want you to nag him for trivial things and he did not want you to reveal his identity to any one. Only those who obeyed him will be rewarded.
What do we have here? an arrogant God or Moses himself trying to quash doubters and keep them in line like sheep or lambs?
I still think the fourth commandment is the only one that makes sense. Yes, seventh day is truly holy or hallowed and no one should work on that day. As a matter of fact, if god wants, I would not mind making all of them holiday.
Can you imagine what this world would be like if all the governments on this planet stopped working all seven days? I think heaven would descend on earth. And we all would have angelic hallows around our faces.
If you read the last six commandments and think through you would wonder, did Moses really need to go up in the mountain to hear this from God himself? Why people in those days were not able to figure out for themselves these simple rules of living a moral life? Or is it, they needed to have fear of God instill in them to follow these simple rules? Any human beings with average intelligence and good conscious would follow these rules to be a good person and thus a religious person.
Now if you read the first three commandments it becomes apparent that like any other autocratic ruler God wanted to have full control over his subjects. He did not want you to accept the authority of any other king. He did not want you to nag him for trivial things and he did not want you to reveal his identity to any one. Only those who obeyed him will be rewarded.
What do we have here? an arrogant God or Moses himself trying to quash doubters and keep them in line like sheep or lambs?
I still think the fourth commandment is the only one that makes sense. Yes, seventh day is truly holy or hallowed and no one should work on that day. As a matter of fact, if god wants, I would not mind making all of them holiday.
Can you imagine what this world would be like if all the governments on this planet stopped working all seven days? I think heaven would descend on earth. And we all would have angelic hallows around our faces.
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