Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: The Ten Commandments: Do They Still Count? by Laura C. Schlessinger ISBN: 0-7407-0742-6 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Yes they still count
Comment: While the Ten Commandments are a series of laws, they were the ten laws given unto Moses by God Himself. There are numerous laws that were inspired by God but created by man throughout the early books of the Old Testament but these were the essential laws of God to his people. It was the foundation of a Holy life. In my opinion, they still count.
Rating: 1
Summary: Propoganda only
Comment: The thing with the ten commandments are of course that they are not Gods Laws. Rather they are a set of commitments which those who believe in the Judeo Christian God make.
A law is a defined rule which carries some form of sanction. If we look at some of the commandments we find that some such as the ban on stealing, murder and Adultery are similar to things which we would see as laws. However if we take the last commandment though shall not covert. Rather than proscribing an action it suggests that one should not have certain thoughts or longings. One can see the rationale of trying to stop people having such thoughts but surely one would not see it as a law.
If we look at the commandments as a whole they are better characterised as a series of commitments to a belief system. They do not start of from the basis that there are certain sorts of behaviour which we should try to stamp out. Rather the basis of them is the notion of the Judeo Christian God who at the time Exodus was written represented a unique notion of religion. That is instead of Gods being divine beings who had power beyond that of a mortal, and whose capricious ways one sought to buy off by ritual sacrifice, the Judeo Christian God was one who wanted a unique and personal relationship with man. The commandments were a way by which a person who committed himself/herself to the religion identified themselves as doing so.
Schlessinger is a person who works as a talk show host. That is to say she does not have a job which gives her a lot of insight into the world, rather it is a job in which she can talk off the top of her head to people who are usually stupider than her. Not the sort of employment which leads to a lot of self knowledge.
Rather than seeing the commandments for what they are, an important development in religious thought for their time, but a scheme of belief rather than practical rules Schlessinger puts her own spin on them. That is a basis for suggesting the correctness of her own moral vision.
The problem with the commandments is that if they are analysed as laws rather than as a series of commitments they do not make a lot of sense. They are vague, there are no definitions no mention of penalties or graduations of importance. This enables Schlessinger to turn a series of statements into something that they are not. A bit of [information] for a certain view of the world.
 |
Title: The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Laura Schlessinger ISBN: 0060520612 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
 |
Title: Ten Stupid Things Couples Do to Mess Up Their Relationships by Laura C. Schlessinger ISBN: 0060512601 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives by Laura C. Schlessinger ISBN: 0060976497 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: Stupid Things Parents Do To Mess Up Their Kids: Don't Have Them If You Won't Raise Them by Laura Schlessinger ISBN: 0060933798 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: Good People...and Where You Fit In by Laura C. Schlessinger ISBN: 0740707418 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
