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   From: deluxe@alwaysme.com   
      
   Frank Trebor wrote:   
      
   >>>"Rafael Leyre"  wrote   
   >>>I think that the following cosntitute "essential morality",   
   >>>1. consideration for suffering people anywhere on earth;   
   >>>2. desire for equal and unbiased justice for each and every person;   
   >>>3. aversion of physical and public punishment,   
   >>>4. aversion of cruelty as a public spectacle;   
   >>>5. striving to open minded, investigative, forthcoming world   
   >   
   > citizenship;   
   >   
   >>>6. defence of everyone's freedom to create, change and demonstrate   
   >   
   > opinions;   
   >   
   >>>7. health care without social, sexual, racial or any other   
   >   
   > discrimination.   
   >   
   >>"deluxe"  wrote   
   >>It's so undefined as to make the whole discussion pointless.   
   >   
   >   
   > I agree, "deluxe", but you did not offer an alternative.....   
      
   I wasn't asked to.   
      
   >   
   > Exodus 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   
   > showing 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 labor, 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 Honor 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 neighbor. 17 Thou shalt not   
   > covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor   
   > his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing   
   > that is thy neighbor's.   
   >   
   > And to summarize this long list, refer to:.......   
   > Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,   
   > and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.   
   > Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the   
   > children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am   
   > the LORD.   
   >   
   > Jesus Himself quoted these two when asked which was the greatest   
   > commandment,   
   > Matthew 22:37 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. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law   
   > and the prophets.   
   >   
   > I rest my case.   
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