We have broken every one of the Ten Commandments. We have lied and disobeyed our parents. We stole from other people when we were little kids. We coveted something that belonged to others. We worshiped other gods like NCAA teams or going to football games on Sunday instead of worshiping God. We have killed, if not physically but in our mind.

We broke every Commandment. We are left with no other defense of our sins, but to acknowledge that we need to be saved.

That’s what Jesus Christ is for. He died on the Cross for our sins and rose on the third day, defeating the power of death. His death was a propitiation for the sins of whole world, that we may have grace of God to escape from the everlasting Hell. No religion can save anyone from being cast into Hell.

We should ask Jesus into our hearts to save us by asking Him for His forgiveness of our sins. The Ten Commandments for Jews were meant to demonstrate a very important truth: sacrificing lambs doesn’t save you, but believing that one day God would sent a Savior (the Messiah) to save us was what delivered Jews and converted Gentiles out of everlasting punishment.

In short, Ten Commandments prove that we have NO excuse before God, period. That’s the whole point of having the Ten Commandments.

We hold from God the gift which, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.

But life cannot support itself. He who has bestowed it, has entrusted us with the care of supporting it, of developing it, and of perfecting it. To that end, He has provided us with a collection of wonderful faculties; He has plunged us into the midst of a variety of elements. It is by the application of our faculties to these elements, that the phenomena of assimilation and of appropriation, by which life pursues the circle which has been assigned to it, are realized.

Existence, faculties, assimilation — in other words, personality, liberty, property — this is man.

It is of these three things that it may be said, apart from all demagogue subtlety, that they are anterior and superior to all human legislation.

It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws. What, then, is law? As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

Nature, or rather God, has bestowed upon every one of us the right to defend his person, his liberty, and his property, since these are the three constituent or preserving elements of life; elements, each of which is rendered complete by the others, and cannot be understood without them. For what are our faculties, but the extension of our personality? and what is property, but an extension of our faculties?

If every man has the right of defending, even by force, his person, his liberty, and his property, a number of men have the right to combine together, to extend, to organize a common force, to provide regularly for this defense.

There you have it in a nutshell.

We are buying a short-term peace from the Wahhabi. They have fissured Pakistan, Afghanistan is long conquered, and Africa will give them the numbers they need to really get things going.

They are our friends by their words, and our enemies by their actions.

Why do we sell them laser-guided missiles and bunker-busting bombs?

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Thank you much for your kind and generous comments.

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My parents still reside in their two decker in Providence. As they age, I’ve already committed to their care no matter what it takes. I’ll cross that bridge when I get there, but I’m already cognizant that it will take sacrifice on both my part and my family’s.

“Sacrifice” in the end, is the key word. It is often what is lacking in our current society. It is far easier for states like Washington and Oregon to euthanize the elderly . . . where, after all, is the sacrifice in that.

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Life and Liberty allow happiness to be achievable in the pursuit. Happiness is the goal not Life or Liberty. When you change the equation, as you did, you will invariably change the results as well.

One of the imperatives of the New Deal was to get the agricultural poor off the land and into the factory or other workplace. That meant that there were no kids left to tend to Ma and Pa, hence Social Security. A lot of revolutionary history has been written by or because of bastard and second sons who didn’t receive or couldn’t make do off the inheritance. In the modern world, it was the rarest first born son who could live off the place so long as the parents were alive, if then. That certainly is the history of the demise of single family, subsistence agriculture; you just couldn’t live off it, so the kids left and got a job for wages.

As the society has become more fragmented and transient, the children are thousands of miles away from ageing parents and often have neither the wherewithal or physical ability to lend them any assistance. Unfortunately, they all too often don’t have the desire either. When the end is nigh, the over-riding question is, “how long before I can get out of here and get back to work?” Well, we built this World, didn’t we? There’s a reason why the states that are toying with “death with dignity” and other euphemisms for euthanasia are among the most prosperous and transient; nobody has time to deal with all that sickness and dying stuff.

Face it folks, those 10 Suggestions are awfully inconvenient in the modern world.

To get to the point, lots of stuff keeps us enslaved, and few of us are ever truly free, and those that are usually did it on their own, or were close to one who did. We are all, to one degree or another, playing a massive game of semantics. We must all fight for freedom, both ours and others’.

All efforts should be on finding those in the way/