Still the Only Solution to the World’s Problems

[I can’t help but preface this article with the comment that progressives always tell us what to do. The Ten Commandments, and true conservatives, tell us what not to do. Therein lies the crux of the problem. God gives us free will. Progressives give us free lunch. – JS]

By Dennis Prager at nationalreview.com

The Decalogue is as relevant today as it was 3,000 years ago.

There is only one solution to the world’s problems, only one prescription for producing a near-heaven on earth.

It is 3,000 years old.

And it is known as the Ten Commandments.

Properly understood and applied, the Ten Commandments are really all humanity needs to make a beautiful world. While modern men and women, in their hubris, believe that they can and must come up with new ideas in order to make a good world, the truth is there is almost nothing new to say.

If people and countries lived by the Ten Commandments, all the great moral problems would disappear.

Or, to put it another way, all the great evils involve the violation of one or more of the Ten Commandments.

Here is the case in brief for the Ten Commandments (using the Jewish enumeration which slightly differs from the Protestant and Catholic):

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