Throughout history,Jewish & Christian communities alike have found the Sixth Commandment impossible to obey. Yahweh’s demands are such that no society could satisfy them fully.A tragic dimension: a follower of that deity must always be at fault,through sin,or complicity with sin.
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Is it? In the King James translation it was simply ‘Thou shalt not kill’, as I recall. Inaccurate translation?
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"Murder" is probably a more accurate translation
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That’s interesting, I didn’t know there were different interpretations of this commandment.
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From the catechism: "Do not slay the innocent and the righteous" "Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow" "The teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty"
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So that’s the Catholic interpretation. Would be interesting to find out the original Hebrew & its precise meaning.
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I doubt it'd be any different than the standard Catholic/Christian interpretation. The Hebrews weren't Jains.
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This is standard human morality btw. It wasn't just the 10 commandments. In Hinduism there's a general "don't kill" rule but there's an obvious nuance to it. In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna bitch-slaps Arjuna for not wanting to kill righteously in war.
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But we’re supposedly dealing with divine morality here (though Evolist wouldn’t call it that). It makes more sense to me that a divine commandment would be very straightforward & absolute, with no ifs or buts. But maybe that’s not how the Hebrews saw it.
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