Christians want to post the Ten Commandments everywhere

Why do many Christians want to post the Ten Commandments everywhere?

Rather than "Thou Shalt Not",The  Christian Gospel takes a positive approach and sets a much higher standard . 

Aren't Christians supposed to follow the teaching of Christ?


"But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 

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.This is the first and great commandment.And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." (Matthew 22:34-40 (KJV))  

That is to say, these two commandments supersede all the previous teachings in the old testament.

This theme recurs in all of the books of the Gospel (The Story of the Good Samaritan, etc.)


See, some of us secularists have actually read the bible, including both testaments! That seems to be more than some so called Christians have.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if a Christian is going to "thump the bible" maybe he should leave the old testament on the shelf. 

Why can't Christians follow their own Savior's teaching? Why do they insist on quoting the old testament when it suits their purpose, ignoring the Gospels?


"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Isn't that all you need for the basis of an ethical and moral system?

I suppose we could go point, counterpoint, quoting verse versus verse in the Gospels (and let's stick to the Gospels, Christ's teachings, not the "revelation" of some apostle or ex tax collector). But you still have to ask the question, "what is the body of Christ's teachings?"

"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." 

Why do Christians think they can trample on the rights of others, defacing public property with their propaganda? They are free to put whatever they want on their own property, but not on public property. Why, under the banner of free speech, do they think that they can foist their views on the rest of us. They seem to want to take the rights, as guaranteed under the first amendment, away from 16% of the people, some 48 million. And that 16% is growing ever bigger - possibly because of the irrelevancy of Christian in today's world. Are they getting that desperate that they can't even follow the teachings of Christ? America is pluralistic nation

What "the bible says" rather than what "Christ teaches" in my mind, may be why they are losing adherents.

Christ was a penniless wandering religious teacher. Doesn't it seem strange, that to "honor" him, Christians build crystal cathedrals and place gold and silver on their altars and take communion out of gold or silver goblets? Popes and priests dress in "fine raiments", changing them as the Christian calender progresses through the year. What did Christ wear even to his grave?


"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."  

That's something even secularist's might agree with. Even curmudgeons like me.

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
  --  Mahatma Gandhi

TTFN
(Peace, Skepticism, Bright, Humanism, Green, TED)