<p>…and he is the co-sponsor of a bill which would have required that the Ten Commandments be displayed in both the House and the Senate!</p>
<p><a href=“http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TCR-Westmoreland.mov[/url]”>http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TCR-Westmoreland.mov</a></p>
<p>Priceless!</p>
<p>"Don’t murder. Don’t lie. Don’t steal. "</p>
<p>C’mon Nspeds. He got the big ones.</p>
<p>Ridiculous. Another bible thumper owned.</p>
<p>My son loves the Colbert Repor!! </p>
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<p>^^ hahahaha</p>
<p>Maybe he wanted them posted somewhere because he kept forgetting them?</p>
<p>He did admit to regularly re-reading his campaign literature so he could remember what his constituents elected him to do. He probably has a little memory problem.</p>
<p>I love his facial expressions. You can almost hear the voices inside his head: “duhh duhhh duhh duhh.”:P</p>
<p>kind of sad in a horrid kind of way</p>
<p>talk the talk, but can’t walk the walk</p>
<p>“Don’t lie” isn’t one of the Ten Commandments. The commandment is to refrain from “bearing false witness against thy neighbor,” which is a narrow subset of what we usually mean by “lying.” </p>
<p>It may be a lie to say “Of course you don’t look fat, dear,” but it’s a very different thing from falsely accusing someone of a crime, and not prohibited by these commandments.</p>
<p>One reason people may have trouble naming the Ten Commandments is that there aren’t really ten of them. I count eleven, personally, although there is some debate about this. I see separate prohibitions against making graven images, and bowing down before them.</p>
<p>Exod.20
[1] And God spake all these words, saying,
[2] I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
[3] Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
[4] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
[5] Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
[6] And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
[7] Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
[8] Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
[9] Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
[10] 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:
[11] 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.
[12] Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
[13] Thou shalt not kill.
[14] Thou shalt not commit adultery.
[15] Thou shalt not steal.
[16] Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
[17] Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.</p>
<p>Ah, yes. Augustine and Origen differed on how to number the Egyptian morality code as well. Only thing is, these were not the commandments on the tablets that were to be found in the Ark. The second set of 10 commandments, the Jewish ones, are in Exodus 34:10-27:</p>
<p>34:4 Moses carved out two stone tablets like the first. He then got up early in the morning and climbed Mount Sinai, as God had commanded him, taking the two stone tablets in his hand.
34:5 God revealed Himself in a cloud, and it stood there with [Moses]. [Moses] called out in God’s name.
34:6 God passed by before [Moses] and proclaimed, ‘God, God, Omnipotent, merciful and kind, slow to anger, with tremendous [resources of] love and truth.
34:7 He remembers deeds of love for thousands [of generations], forgiving sin, rebellion and error. He does not clear [those who do not repent], but keeps in mind the sins of the fathers to their children and grandchildren, to the third and fourth generation.’
34:8 Moses quickly bowed his head and prostrated himself.
34:9 He said, ‘If You are indeed pleased with me, O God, let my Lord go among us. This nation may be unbending, but forgive our sins and errors, and make us Your own.’
34:10 God said: I will make a covenant before all your people, and will do miracles that have never been brought into existence in all the world, among any nation. All the people among whom you [dwell] will see how fearsome are the deeds that I, God, am doing with you.
34:11 Be very careful with regard to what I am instructing you today. I will drive the Amorites, Canaanites, Hivites, Perizzites, Hittites and Yebusites out before you.
34:12 Be most careful not to make a treaty with the people who live in the land where you are coming, since they can be a fatal trap to you.
34:13 You must shatter their altars, break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah trees.
34:14 Do not bow down to any other god, for God is known as one who demands exclusive worship, and He does indeed demand it.
34:15 [Be careful] that you not make a treaty with [the people] who live in the land. When they practice their religion and sacrifice to their gods, they will invite you, and you will end up eating their sacrifice.
34:16 You will then allow their daughters to marry your sons, and when their daughters worship their gods, they will lead your sons to follow their religion.
34:17 Do not make any cast metal idols.
34:18 Keep the Festival of Matzahs. Eat matzahs for seven days as I commanded, in the designated time in the month of standing grain. It was in the month of standing grain that you left Egypt.
34:19 The first-born initiating every womb is Mine. Among all your livestock, you must separate out the males of the first-born cattle and sheep.
34:20 The first-born of a donkey must be redeemed with a sheep, and if it is not redeemed, you must decapitate it. You must [also] redeem every first-born among your sons.
Do not appear before Me empty-handed.</p>
<p>34:21 You may work during the six weekdays, but on Saturday, you must stop working, ceasing from all plowing and reaping.
34:22 Keep the Festival of Shavuoth through the first fruits of your wheat harvest. Also keep the Harvest Festival soon after the year changes.
34:23 Three times each year, all your males shall thus present themselves before God the Master, Lord of Israel.
34:24 When I expel the other nations before you and extend your boundaries, no one will be envious of your land when you go to be seen in God’s presence three times each year.
34:25 Do not slaughter the Passover sacrifice with leaven in your possession. Do not allow the Passover sacrifice to remain overnight until morning.
34:26 Bring the first fruits of your land to the Temple of God your Lord. Do not [eat] meat cooked in milk [even that of] its own mother.</p>
<p>There are no prohibitions against murdering, stealing, or lying in the second set. There is, however, a commandment that one decapitate unredeemed donkey children.</p>
<p>Thanks, Mini. I think that last commandment is the best explanation I’ve seen to date of the Ann Coulter phenomenon.</p>
<p>Yup, and the first commandment commands religious intolerance. (Congressman Westmoreland may have gotten it right.)</p>
<p>"Be most careful not to make a treaty with the people who live in the land where you are coming, since they can be a fatal trap to you.
34:13 You must shatter their altars, break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah trees.</p>
<p>One of the problems with people who don’t remember the Ten Commandments is that they often don’t realize that several of the commandments are specifically religious in nature and for that reason ill-suited to the purposes of a multicultural society.</p>
<p>Thats not the problem. The underlying philosophy of the Ten Commandments is altruism, and one needs faith to accept them. The TC are philosophically corrupt. Nothing to do with ‘multicultural’ or a homogenous society.</p>
<p>“Nothing to do with ‘multicultural’ or a homogenous society.”</p>
<p>Read the first commandment: Exodus 34:12-13.</p>
<p>Jesus’ summary of the ten commandments, loving God and loving your fellow man, was actually a quote from another rabbi (Hillel I think). Congressman Westmoreland could have use this summary to help him remember more than three.
Love God with all your might: No other gods; no Idols; don’t take his name in vain; remember the Sabbath
Love your fellow man as yourself: honor your parents; prohibitions on killing, stealing, adultry, lying and covetousness.</p>
<p>I always forget sneezy</p>
<p>Thanks for posting the link to Colbert. That is absolutely hilarious. It is almost unimaginable that Americans actually vote for these clowns.</p>
<p>Colbert is wonderful…the comedy channel has him so bug your cable people</p>
<p>“Jesus’ summary of the ten commandments, loving God and loving your fellow man, was actually a quote from another rabbi (Hillel I think).”</p>
<p>Actually, he took Hillel’s teachings, and stood them on his head. Hillel said “love your neighbors”; Jesus said “love your enemies.” Hillel said “give of your wealth to the poor”; Jesus said “sell all you have and give it to the poor.” Hillel said that the 613 Jewish laws were to be followed to the letter; Jesus said that he “was the fulfillment of the laws”, and the strictures could now be ignored. Hillel said, “obey your parents, and cling to your wife (or husband)”; Jesus said, “Forsake your parents, and follow me.”</p>
<p>In every case, Jesus’ audience would have known the references to Hillel, and how he was standing those references on their heads.</p>
<p>I would like to know which enemy Cong. Westmoreland has loved recently. ;)</p>