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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Replying to @RightModernist
That's pretty easy to obey tho, it's only about unjustified killing
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist
Is it? In the King James translation it was simply ‘Thou shalt not kill’, as I recall. Inaccurate translation?
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Replying to @RightModernist
"Murder" is probably a more accurate translation
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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist
That’s interesting, I didn’t know there were different interpretations of this commandment.
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Replying to @RightModernist
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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Replying to @AnarchicEvolist
So that’s the Catholic interpretation. Would be interesting to find out the original Hebrew & its precise meaning.
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What I gather from the Wikipedia page is that it's comparable, justified is as due consequence for crime, in warfare, and intruder in the home. Different word is used for killing in war or outside of war, commandment is about outside of war
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