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Ten Commandments in American culture
By Jim Killebrew

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[September 10, 2014]  In the Bible recorded in Exodus chapter 20 is a list that contains the commandments from God; these are known as the Ten Commandments. Following is the Commandment and America's response to it:

20:3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

God of pleasure

God of beauty

God of materialism

God of Independence

God of Government and laws

God of career

God of the "God is Dead" movement

Hollywood

Las Vegas

20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below. 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me, 20:6 and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Money

Materialism

Power

Greed

Satanic lure away from God

Sports

20:7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.

Presidential tapes

Cable Television

Entertainment

Everyday conversation

20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy. 20:9 For six days you may labor and do all your work, 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates. 20:11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

24/7 Work week

24/7 Commerce

20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

Nursing Homes

High Divorce rates

Rebellion of youth

20:13 “You shall not murder.



Significant murder rates (From National Center for Health Statistics for the year 2011 there were 16,238 murders. 5.2 murders for each 100,000 population)

Abortion (1.2 million abortions per year in the United States. Since 1973 there have been 57,158,083 babies aborted.)

20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.

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Statistic Verification
Source: Associated Press, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Research Date: 1.1.2014

Marriage Infidelity Statistics Data
Percent of marriages where one or both spouses admit to infidelity, either physical or emotional 41 %
Percent of men who admit to committing infidelity in any relationship they’ve had 57 %
 Percentage of women who admit to committing infidelity in any relationship they’ve had 54 %
 Percent of married men who have strayed at least once during their married lives 22 %
 Percent of married women who have strayed at least once during their married lives 14 %
 Percentage of men and women who admit to having an affair with a co-worker 36 %
 Percentage of men and women who admit to infidelity on business trips 35%
 Percentage of men and women who admit to infidelity with a brother-in-law or sister-in-law 17 %
 Average length of an affair 2 years
 Percentage of marriages that last after an affair has been admitted to or discovered 31 %
 Percentage of men who say they would have an affair if they knew they would never get caught 74 %
 Percentage of women who say they would have an affair if they knew they would never get caught 68 %
 Percent of children who are the product of infidelity 3 %
 
 Statistic Verification
 Source: Associated Press, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
 Research Date: January 1, 2014
 
 Pervasive sexual preoccupation
 
 Significant rate of affairs within marriage
 
 Pornography
 
 Lust


 
 20:15 “You shall not steal.
 
 Embezzlement
 
 Work place theft
 
 Government theft of public money through deficit spending
 
 Ponzi schemes
 
 20:16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
 
 Pervasive lying (According to a 2002 study conducted by the University of Massachusetts, 60% of adults can’t have a ten minute conversation without lying at least once.
 
 20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
 
 Identity Theft (According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics 16.6 MILLION PEOPLE EXPERIENCED IDENTITY THEFT IN 2012
 
 Theft of possessions or objects
 
 Advertising
 
 Plagiarism
 
 Cohabitation outside of marriage
 
 How are we doing so far?

[By JIM KILLEBREW]

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