{"id":338907,"date":"2010-02-18T04:37:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T09:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22601"},"modified":"2010-02-18T04:37:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T09:37:33","slug":"the-ten-commandments-we-always-see-aren%e2%80%99t-the-ten-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/338907","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Commandments We Always See, Aren\u2019t The Ten Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The following is the first chapter from Russ Kick&#8217;s classic bite-size Disinformation book<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0971394288\/disinformation\">50 Things You&#8217;re Not Supposed to Know<\/a><\/em>, published in 2003.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For more on Russ Kick, check out his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/thememoryhole.com\">The Memory Hole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/MosesWith10.jpg\" alt=\"Moses With 10\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22602\" width=\"237\" height=\"311\" \/>First Amendment battles continue to rage across the US over the posting of the Ten Commandments in public places \u2014 courthouses, schools, parks, and pretty much anywhere else you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Christians argue that they\u2019re a part of our Western heritage that should be displayed as ubiquitously as traffic signs. Congressman Bob Barr hilariously suggested that the Columbine massacre wouldn\u2019t have happened if the Ten Commandments (also called the Decalogue) had been posted in the high school, and some government officials have directly, purposely disobeyed court rulings against the display of these ten directives supposedly handed down from on high.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad they\u2019re all talking about the wrong rules. Every Decalogue you see \u2014 from the 5,000-pound granite behemoth inside the Alabama State Judicial Building to the little wallet-cards sold at Christian bookstores \u2014 is bogus. Simply reading the Bible will prove this. Getting out your King James version, turn to Exodus 20:2-17. You\u2019ll see the familiar list of rules about having no other gods, honoring your parents, not killing or coveting,<br \/>\nand so on. At this point, though, Moses is just repeating to the people what God told him on Mount Si\u2019nai. These are not written down in any form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is the first chapter from Russ Kick&#8217;s classic bite-size Disinformation book 50 Things You&#8217;re Not Supposed to Know, published in 2003. For more on Russ Kick, check out his website, The Memory Hole. _____________________________________ First Amendment battles continue to rage across the US over the posting of the Ten Commandments in public places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}