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[rough draft]

10 commandments ad campaign

Plan:

The idea would be to show everyone that the 10 commandments is not some widely-agreed upon document. There are countless versions of different denominations and faiths. It is not only the non-believers who should be angry about this attempt to introduce religion into politics, but all faiths who are in danger of being discriminated against. Before voting, one should know exactly which commandments will be hung.

a few weeks of ads showing the various forms of the 10 commandments.

a few weeks of text about the various kinds and the power of the supreme court and how bush will appoint several and how if he does, then that's it for separation of church and state.

Deuteronomy 5:6-21

Deuteronomy 5:6
'I Jehovah [am] thy God, who hath brought thee out from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants.

Deuteronomy 5:7
'Thou hast no other gods in My presence.

Deuteronomy 5:8
'Thou dost not make to thee a graven image, any similitude which [is] in the heavens above, and which [is] in the earth beneath, and which [is] in the waters under the earth;

Deuteronomy 5:9
thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on a third [generation], and on a fourth, to those hating Me;

Deuteronomy 5:10
and doing kindness to thousands, to those loving Me, and to those keeping My commands.

Deuteronomy 5:11
'Thou dost not take up the Name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah doth not acquit him who taketh up His Name for a vain thing.

Deuteronomy 5:12
'Observe the day of the sabbath -- to sanctify it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;

Deuteronomy 5:13
six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

Deuteronomy 5:14
and the seventh day [is] a sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy sojourner who [is] within thy gates; so that thy man-servant, and thy handmaid doth rest like thyself;

Deuteronomy 5:15
and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God is bringing thee out thence by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm; therefore hath Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the day of the sabbath.

Deuteronomy 5:16
'Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Deuteronomy 5:17
'Thou dost not murder.

Deuteronomy 5:18
'Thou dost not commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:19
'Thou dost not steal.

Deuteronomy 5:20
'Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour -- a false testimony.

Deuteronomy 5:21
'Thou dost not desire thy neighbour's wife; nor dost thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, and his man-servant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his ass, and anything which [is] thy neighbour's.

Exodus 20:3-16 (Young's Literal)

Exodus 20:3
'Thou hast no other Gods before Me.

Exodus 20:4
'Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, or any likeness which [is] in the heavens above, or which [is] in the earth beneath, or which [is] in the waters under the earth.

Exodus 20:5
Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third [generation], and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

Exodus 20:6
and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.

Exodus 20:7
'Thou dost not take up the name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah acquitteth not him who taketh up His name for a vain thing.

Exodus 20:8
'Remember the Sabbath-day to sanctify it;

Exodus 20:9
six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

Exodus 20:10
and the seventh day [is] a Sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates, --

Exodus 20:11
for six days hath Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and resteth in the seventh day; therefore hath Jehovah blessed the Sabbath-day, and doth sanctify it.

Exodus 20:12
'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Exodus 20:13
'Thou dost not murder.

Exodus 20:14
'Thou dost not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:15
'Thou dost not steal.

Exodus 20:16
'Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

Exodus 34:12-26 (Young's Literal)

Exodus 34:12
take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst;

Exodus 34:13
for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;

Exodus 34:14
for ye do not bow yourselves to another god -- for Jehovah, whose name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God.

Exodus 34:15
'Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and [one] hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice,

Exodus 34:16
and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

Exodus 34:17
a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.

Exodus 34:18
'The feast of unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at an appointed time, the month of Abib: for in the month of Abib thou didst come out from Egypt.

Exodus 34:19
'All opening a womb [are] Mine, and every firstling of thy cattle born a male, ox or sheep;

Exodus 34:20
and the firstling of an ass thou dost ransom with a lamb; and if thou dost not ransom, then thou hast beheaded it; every first-born of thy sons thou dost ransom, and they do not appear before Me empty.

Exodus 34:21
'Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.

Exodus 34:22
'And a feast of weeks thou dost observe for thyself; first-fruits of wheat-harvest; and the feast of in-gathering, at the revolution of the year.

Exodus 34:23
'Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, God of Israel;

Exodus 34:24
for I dispossess nations from before thee, and have enlarged thy border, and no man doth desire thy land in thy going up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in a year.

Exodus 34:25
'Thou dost not slaughter with a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice; and the sacrifice of the feast of the passover doth not remain till morning:

Exodus 34:26
the first of the first-fruits of the land thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.'

Ten Commandments of Solon (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 1.60, c. 600 B.C.E.), which run as follows:

1. Trust good character more than promises.
2. Do not speak falsely.
3. Do good things.
4. Do not be hasty in making friends, but do not abandon them once made.
5. Learn to obey before you command.
6. When giving advice, do not recommend what is most pleasing, but what is most useful.
7. Make reason your supreme commander.
8. Do not associate with people who do bad things.
9. Honor the gods.
10. Have regard for your parents.

Latter Day Saints (Mosiah 12:32-37, 13:11-24)

12:35. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

36. Thou^• shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing in heaven above, or things which are in the earth beneath.

11:13. And again: Thou shalt not bow^• down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me;

14. And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

15. 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.

16. Remember the sabbath^• day, to keep it holy.

17. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;

18. But the seventh day, the sabbath of the Lord thy God, thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;

19. For in 6 days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is; wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

20. Honor thy father^• and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

21. Thou shalt not kill^•.

22. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal.

23. Thou shalt not bear false^• witness against thy neighbor.

24. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.

Muslim 10 commandments (a possible candidate for posting, but in Islam, these prohibitions do not hold the weight of the commandmetns in Jewish or Christian faiths.):

Surrah 6: 151-152

Sayt "Come, I will recite what your Lord has prohibited you from?: Join not anything in worship with Him; be good and dutiful to your parents; kill not your children because of poverty -- We provide sustenance for you and for them; come not near to shameful sins, whether committed openly or secretly; and kill not anyone whom Allah has forbidden, except for a just cause. This He has commanded you that you may understand

152. "And come not near to the oprhan's property, except to improve it, until he attains the age of full strength; and give full measure and full weight with justice. We burden not any person, but that which he can bear. And whenever you give your word, say the truth even if a near relative is concerned, and fulfull the Covenant of Allah. This He commands you, that you may remember.

Pillars of Islam, probably the best ideological equivalent of the 10 commandments.

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The two great commandments of Jesus Christ: Matt 22:37-39

37. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38. This is the first and great commandment.

39. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

The 8 Commandments of Huitzilopochtli of Tenochtitlan

Diego Duran, Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar, translated and edited by Fernando Horcasitas and Doris Heyden, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1971, pages 90-97.

Thou shalt fear, honor, and love the gods.

Thou shalt not use the names of the gods on thy tongue or in thy talk, at any time.

Thou shalt honor the feast days.

Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother, thy kinsmen, priests, and elders.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness.